“I don’t think anyone in the Western world can grasp what has happened here": Ralph Lewinsohn

Pictures are displayed of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since the October 07 attack in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the border with Gaza in southern Israel, 07 April 2024 Credit: ABIR SULTAN/EPA/AAP Image

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An English interview with Ralph Lewinsohn. Ralph was born in Namibia to parents who’d fled Nazi Germany just before WW2. Later on he lived in Australia and in Germany, but many years ago he made Aliya and for many years lived in Kfar Aza, opposite the Gaza Strip. Ralph’s family survived by a miracle on the 7th of October, but dozens of Kibbutz members did not.

6 month into the Gaza-Israel war, Ralph says that "Jewish around the world got to stand tall and refuse to put up with anti Israel bias". All the more so when it comes to a "self evident human rights issue like the predicament of the Israeli hostages in Gaza".

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