Jerez to Vejer, after the MICHELIN Guide: the frontier towns and the case for living in Spain part of the year or all of it

León Fernando Del Canto

The MICHELIN Guide has published an account of a journey through Cádiz in which the British chef Merlin Labron-Johnson, of Osip in Somerset, is taken by Juanlu Fernández of LÚ Cocina y Alma through the almadraba, the fixed-net tuna fishery the Phoenicians were working three thousand years ago, and then inland to Jerez. Read it. I am grateful to the Guide and to the Andalucía Tourist Board for recording what those of us from Jerez have … Read the rest

Why the Conspiratorial Responses to Canada’s Antisemitism Guide Demonstrate Its Necessity

Delegates from dozens of countries gathered nearly 25 year ago in Stockholm, Sweden for the Stockholm International Forum, where they affirmed a global commitment to combatting racism, antisemitism, ethnic hatred, and ignorance of history. That meeting sparked what became a 16-year open process to develop much-needed anti-racism tools, including the creation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.

Antisemitism is generally understood as a certain perception of Jews that veers into hatred, but specific examples Read the rest