27 min
Cologne Attacks / Israel Book Ban / Taiwan The Irish Times World View Podcast
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Derek Scally discusses the political and social fallout from the robberies and sexual assaults of women in Cologne and Hamburg on New Years Eve.
Tsafrir Cohen of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation gives his view on the controversy over a novel about a romantic relationship between a Palestinian man and a Jewish woman, which has shot to the top of Israel’s best-seller list after the education ministry banned it from high-school curriculums, saying it encouraged assimilation.
And Clifford Coonan, en route to Taipei from his base in Beijing, reports on the upcoming election in Taiwan which comes at a sensitive time for the island nation's relationship with China.
Derek Scally discusses the political and social fallout from the robberies and sexual assaults of women in Cologne and Hamburg on New Years Eve.
Tsafrir Cohen of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation gives his view on the controversy over a novel about a romantic relationship between a Palestinian man and a Jewish woman, which has shot to the top of Israel’s best-seller list after the education ministry banned it from high-school curriculums, saying it encouraged assimilation.
And Clifford Coonan, en route to Taipei from his base in Beijing, reports on the upcoming election in Taiwan which comes at a sensitive time for the island nation's relationship with China.
27 min