Tag: Scotland
In 1990, shortly before the collapse of Yugoslavia, the Serb cartoonist “Corax” drew an image that summed up the prevailing mood.
Scotland has long had a reputation for being a bastion of the left—the Canada of the United Kingdom. Over nearly two decades in power, Scottish National Party governments in the devolved Scottish Parliament have promoted every failed left-wing cause from universal basic income to transgender self-ID.
Tucked into the leafy suburbs of the Southside of Glasgow, behind quiet streets and luxury homes, lies the real engine of Scottish Zionism. It’s not a government office, a public institution or a charity, but a web of interlinked families whose wealth, marriages, and political networks have shaped the Zionist movement in Scotland for over a century.
Chaim Bermant (1929-1998) pasó gran parte de su infancia en Glasgow, donde se empapó del ambiente sionista escocés. Nacido en Braşlaw, Polonia (en el noroeste de la actual Bielorrusia), llegó a Glasgow a los ocho años.
