In Germany, Israel and the Jews are fought over with a crudely absolutist, hysterical intensity. Caricatured, exploited, courted and vilified by left and right, normality…
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This weekend, Sarajevo Cathedral will host a Mass honoring murderous and fiercely anti-Semitic WWII fascists. It’s the latest spike in a long-term project of historical…
75 years after the Allied victory over fascism, hardline nationalists and Putin’s WWII propaganda war are sparking the ominous discrediting and decline of anti-fascism in…
When saying ‘Never again’ is the only way Israel engages with the past, it can be used to justify undemocratic, militaristic rule over the Palestinians…
Only political education can fight the willingness to kill and be killed without asking questions. Israeli children won’t get it from the education minister Rabbi…
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Forgiveness, a comforting narrative arc conforming to the expectations of majority Christian culture, is now sanctified as the key message of the six million murdered…
Germany’s relationship with Jews and with Israel is understandably shaped by the Holocaust. But this has caused it to be ritualized, abnormal – and, sometimes,…
Germany’s relationship with Jews and with Israel is understandably shaped by the past. But this has caused it to be ritualized, abnormal – and, sometimes,…
When our Yad Vashem guide asked, rhetorically, if we’d ever heard of ‘any other Holocausts,’ I immediately replied: The Armenian genocide. It took me years…
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Torah no longer saves from death. The coronavirus has dealt an unimaginable blow to the rabbinical authority – and worldview – that ultra-Orthodox Jews previously…
Enough of the Brezhnev-era Soviet propaganda. Enough of the perverse, deceitful, intellectually dishonest attempts to blame Poland for WW2, and the Polish resistance for not…
As a 5-year-old boy, I saw tanks for the first time in my life – not German or Soviet tanks, but Polish tanks driving through…
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A few decades ago, building an international consensus to mark the Holocaust was unimaginable. That its commemoration is now a global event is a stark…
Ever since the 1930s, American conservatives have tried to police Jewish identity, by attacking the Jewish credentials of anti-fascist, ‘subversive’ and ‘disloyal’ Jews – all…
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