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…
Posts published in “Holocaust”
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…
We cannot be naïve. The recent WWII genocide law, which falsely equalizes the Holocaust with Nazi reprisals against non-Jewish Belarusians, is as much about history…
From Berlin 1936 to Beijing 2022: History, the Holocaust and humanity requires a refusal to send diplomats to the Games, in solidarity with the Uyghurs…
Belarus won’t divide by ethnic origin the blood spilt by the Nazis: Belarusian, Jewish, Russian, Tatar, Ukrainian. The 800,000 Jews killed in WWII are part…
‘Like turning Eichmann into a folk hero’: How far right nationalists in the Balkans are rehabilitating war criminals and their atrocities, from the perpetrators of…
‘Kristallnacht’ is not only a woefully inadequate term to describe the November 1938 attacks on German Jews: It lends legitimacy to the Nazi propagandists who…
Fascism only took power in a few countries, but in interwar Europe every country had fascist movements, denouncing liberal democracies and attacking communists and Jews.…
When Israel’s president visits the memorial outside Kyiv where Nazis executed 33,000 Jews in two days, he will be paying tribute to a tragedy held…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Modi is talking to world leaders about the threat of Islamist radicalization. But the real threat to India comes from a radicalizing Hindu majority fueled…
How can former settler leader Dani Dayan, who doesn’t believe Palestinians deserve equal rights, head an institution dedicated to documenting the most horrific consequences of…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
‘I am Jewish, and I know what genocide means’: How Serb nationalists co-opted Israeli academics to whitewash atrocities, bigotry and irredentism in cynically revisionist reports…
The recent antisemitic outbursts of ‘Europe’s last dictator’ were no accident. Lukashenko has turned against Belarusian Jews with absurd conspiracy theories and intimidation and, ironically,…
The recent antisemitic outbursts of ‘Europe’s last dictator’ were no accident. Lukashenko has turned against Belarusian Jews with absurd conspiracy theories and intimidation and, ironically,…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
A messianic figure recaptures Berlin for the Jews, who once called it home: That’s the thesis of a startling new artwork which poses hard questions…