'We need some daydreaming': lawyer Theodor Meron on surviving the Holocaust, and issuing Netanyahu’s arrest warrant

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[electronic tone] Hello, and welcome to Political Thinking. We risk a repeat of what was seen in the 1930s, say those who worry aloud about the spread of anti-Jewish hatred here in Britain. That, others contend, is to use the horror of the Holocaust to try to silence criticism of the horrors which Israel, the world's only Jewish state, is now responsible for. One man is better placed than most to judge these competing arguments. He's my guest on Political Thinking, Theodore or Ted Meron, whose book, A Thousand Miracles: From Surviving the Holocaust to Judging Genocide, tells the extraordinary story of a boy who was liberated from a Nazi labor camp, went on to be a human rights lawyer in what became Israel, served for two decades as the president of the UN War Crimes Tribunals, and latterly was an advisor to the International Criminal Court when its prosecutor took its most controversial ever decision, the issuing of an arrest warrant for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin