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Barry M. Lando

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During my twenty-five years as a producer at CBS Sixty Minutes, I made my reputation as an investigative reporter. None of the reports created more waves than those dealing with American Jews and with the State of Israel. This despite the fact that my parents and grandparents had been fervid supporters of Israel, and I had been president of the Harvard Zionist Association.

By chance one of those reports lead me to undertake a very different kind of investigation—into the subject of anti-Semitism over the past two hundred years.

That, in turn, brought me face-to-face with an even more profound topic: Do we humans, as a species, have some kind of need—possibly genetic-- to identify and fear “The Other”?

I examine that vast subject in a novel— During my twenty-five years as a producer at CBS Sixty Minutes, I made my reputation as an investigative reporter. None of the reports created more waves than those dealing with American Jews and with the State of Israel. This despite the fact that my parents and grandparents had been fervid supporters of Israel, and I had been president of the Harvard Zionist Association.

By chance one of those reports lead me to undertake a very different kind of investigation—into the subject of anti-Semitism over the past two hundred years.

That, in turn, brought me face-to-face with an even more profound topic: Do we humans, as a species, have some kind of need—possibly genetic-- to identify and fear “The Other”?

I examine that vast subject in a novel—based as much as possible on fact, focusing on the personal experiences of some of my ancestors. I follow them from Polish pogroms in the 19th Century, to the ramshackle city of Jerusalem under the Turks, to the teeming slums of East London, the rain-drenched town of Prince Rupert in the Canadian Northwest, to the dynamic port of Vancouver and virulent race riots against Chinese and Japanese and Sikhs. Then to the Jews’ dilemma of how to combat the rise of fascism and denounce the horrors of the Holocaust—in countries—like Canada and the U.S. where anti-Semitism was still very strong.

I conclude with myself at 60 Minutes and an insider’s account of the most controversial reports I produced with Mike Wallace about American Jews and Israel.

I have previously written three books. The most recent, published June 2017, is “Deep Strike.” It’s about s a Trump-like president of the United States and a small valiant group of CIA officers who go rogue in an attempt to defeat him.

I am Canadian, attended Harvard and Columbia, then worked as correspondent for Time-Life in South America, before moving to CBS News and, ultimately, 60 Minutes.

I am married with a great French wife, three wonderful children, and live in London.

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Anti-Semitism and Fear of the Other

Hi, as you'll see from my preceding post, I'm writing a novel about the history of my Jewish family going back some two hundred years..from Eastern Europe, to Palestine, to London, to Prince Rupert and Vancouver, B.C.
A theme running through my ancestors' stories is anti-Semitism, in all its many forms. I am also interested in the broader theme of the fear we have of "The Other".. I would like to t Read more of this blog post »

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“Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.”
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