In line with Rachel Corrie’s last sentiments (r.i.p), just about everything (besides many ordinary good people) about the world is super disappointing. I wish I could say, gone are the days, but there's been so much cover ups, normalisation and romanticisation of so much harm all over the world for so long that even “those days" we didn't know how awful it was for so many people.

Extract: “It was being promoted by the Zionist Glasgow Women’s Appeal Committee with the goal of “rescuing youngsters from the darkness of Europe and giving them a fresh start in Erez Yisrael”, as reported in the Jewish Echo on 22 January 1943; this was a direct reference to recruiting settler colonists for stealing Palestinian land.

Donors included members of the Sellyn, Barnett, and Goldberg families, all of which have been involved over many generations at the centre of the Scottish Zionist movement as part of the Caledonian Cousinhood. This is the elite network of Zionist families who comprise around 10% of the Scottish Jewish population today. Their names will pop up again later in this tale.“