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I am really sorry to say this—it is going to send my dear friend Lord Hodgson into orbit—but why there? In the view of the American Holocaust Museum and Yad Vashem, it is likely to be the most visited Holocaust museum anywhere in the world. The reason for that is because it will stand next to the number one tourist attraction in the world. We want to use this as a taster to move things out to younger people, to use new technologies and to start to communicate in a way in which we have not done because—this is a point that has been made—Holocaust education is peculiarly wrong in terms of teaching about anti-Semitism so far as it relates to Israel. Despite what the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, said about me, I agree with her point regarding Jewish life and Israel: Jewish life is an important part of the British character. It is what makes us tick; without them, we would be in a worse state.