France’s far left is giving Léon Blum an encore. But France’s path-breaking first Jewish, first socialist premier would be less than gratified by the troubling…
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The Jews of Ukraine don’t want to ignore their history, and antisemitism hasn’t disappeared. But amid so much suffering, they’ve made a conscious choice Source:…
One night, during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade, my grandfather didn’t return home from the forced labor imposed on Serbia’s Jews. My grandmother was pregnant.…
Just like Pharaoh before him, Putin, by dint of who he is, is simply incapable of accepting change. It will lead him and his people…
Since her 2017 defeat, far right politician Marine Le Pen has been busy mutating into a more palatable candidate for mainstream voters. In two weeks,…
From Roman Abramovich to Moshe Kantor and Lev Leviev: Russia’s war on Ukraine has finally revealed, for those who preferred to remain blind, the true…
Amid Putin’s war in Ukraine, the scandal erupting over Abramovich’s shady acquisition of a Portuguese passport under a law granting Sephardic Jews citizenship imperils far…
Until Russia’s invasion, Zelenskyy’s Jewish roots seemed almost incidental. But now, his Jewishness has become hugely powerful and symbolic, not only for Ukraine but for…
Putin is preparing the ground to commit atrocities in Ukraine. Here in Kyiv, I am waiting for the Russian military invasion, and for Israel to…
Israel’s leaders display a shamefully craven posture towards Vladimir Putin, with weak, opaque condemnations of his attack on Ukraine and on Holocaust memory, while his…
We are facing a humanitarian catastrophe for Ukraine and for our community, but Israel is failing to stand up for us. The Talmud teaches: Whoever…
I am an academic at a Kharkiv university, an officer in the reserves and a historian of the Holocaust. And facing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,…
I am a an academic at a Kharkiv university, an officer in the reserves and a historian of the Holocaust. And facing Russia’s invasion of…
The next leader for the radicalizing far right Alternative for Germany is likely to be a Third Reich revisionist whom German intelligence considers a threat…
Once respected for his research on Auschwitz, Israeli historian Gideon Greif now promotes falsehoods, propaganda and pseudo-scholarship in the service of ultranationalist Serb genocide deniers.…
It may sound counter-intuitive to ask why we need to count Jews, after a third of our number were exterminated in the Holocaust. But there…
American Jews like me grew up in with an incomprehensible loss of language and living Jewish culture. But those ‘flown letters,’ targeted for erasure by…
80 percent of Serbia’s Jews were murdered by the Nazis. But in Belgrade, the Holocaust is still largely ignored. Not a single sign, memorial or…
Eric Zemmour has reenergized a particularly French brand of noxious far-right racism and antisemitism. And his core thesis, and the reason he called his party…
The Lebanese government just took the unusual step of inviting Jews who’d left Lebanon to a ‘family reunion’ in its Paris embassy. But this wasn’t…