British police held a man suspected of defacing a war memorial. The 21-year-old was arrested Sunday. The memorial in West Sussex, England, was defaced with an SS symbol and swastika and a nearby house was spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti just before Remembrance Sunday, when the British mark the end of World War I.
Natan Zach rejoined Israel’s Labor Party. Ha’aretz reported that the Israeli poet reapplied for party membership Sunday with the intention of backing colleague Ophir Pines-Paz in his run for Labor leadership.
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