Liberty (advocacy group) activist group, and Paedophile Action for Liberation became affiliated to the pressure group. Shami Chakrabarti, the former director of Liberty, issued an apology about the links between the NCCL and the PIE. In December 2013, she said: "It is a source of continuing disgust and horror that even the NCCL had to expel paedophiles from its ranks in 1983 after infiltration at some point in the 70s." Gay rights and censorship NCCL acted for the owners of "Gay's the Word" bookshop, whose stock was confiscated by Customs officers in 1984. All charges were dropped in 1986. Miners' strike During the
Yitzhaq Shami was limited, mostly short stories. Regardless, some critics held him to be "one of the most notable modern Hebrew Sephardic writers." His best known work is the short novella—"Vengeance of the Fathers". Six of this short stories and the novella were published posthumously as "Shami's stories" in Hebrew—"Sipurey Shami", in English (2000), and in French. The modern Hebrew critic Gershon Shaked wrote that "Vengeance of the Fathers", published in 1928, was one of the most important works in modern Hebrew literature. [8] Anton Shammas the Palestinian writer and critic, wrote—"Shami brought into the scene of modern Hebrew literature some seventy