Peace between the United Arab Emirates and Israel is a historic and hopeful opportunity. But it is not a substitute for peace between Israelis and…
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How does genocide affect survivors’ national and political identity? And how they relate to the perpetrators and their heirs? How Bosnian Muslims, targets of Europe’s…
From Bosnia to Breivik: 25 years after Srebrenica, its perpetrators’ heirs are glorifying their genocide. Their claim to have ‘saved’ the Christian West has made…
Ahmadis, like Israel and Jews, are designated ‘enemies of Islam,’ and hence of Pakistan, accused of working in tandem to provoke crises across the Muslim…
Israel offered to recognize newly-founded Bangladesh in 1972. Despite similar independence struggles, the logic of a strategic relationship, and the lack of direct hostilities, they…
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,…
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For the Jews barricaded in a synagogue in Halle, it made no difference if the shooter was a neo-Nazi or a soldier of the Caliphate.…
I expected some solidarity with fellow victims of a twentieth century European genocide. I found, instead, senior Israeli Holocaust experts happily co-opted into Serbian revisionism…
A German guerilla artist-activist has revived the stormy debate about who controls the narrative of the Holocaust in Morocco, and its entanglement with the Israeli-Palestinian…
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Iran. Kosovo. Syria. Libya. The U.K. Labour leader’s carefully cultivated image as a savior of Muslims is a dangerous charade, and his systematic disregard for…
The first genocide in Europe since the Holocaust targeted white Europeans. But white supremacists deny it even happened Source: https://www.haaretz.com
As Jerusalem’s deputy mayor, I helped Hopkins because I believe in debate. People with more extreme views and even more unsavory friends than her sit…
Nathan/Mohammed probably knows more about Islam than any other Jew alive. He’s a champion proselytizer who’s still engaged with his Jewish background, but says: ‘I…
Jews and Muslims face a common struggle against white supremacists. Now Jewish and Muslim women are building another form of solidarity: jointly facing the discrimination…
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The real debate that Shapiro wanted to stir up with his tweet about the Notre Dame cathedral fire isn’t about medieval France. It’s about 21st…
Netanyahu is steering a path through teetering Europe with a realpolitik approach, strengthening relations in the east and south, without damaging ties with Western Europe …