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3 Reasons Hilary Benn’s Use of the International Brigades to Justify Bombing Syria Was Ignorant
In his lauded speech in the Commons this week, Hilary Benn invoked the memory of the antifascist International Bridges to justify the bombing of Syria. In doing so, he ignored history to bolster British jingoism.