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While conspiracy theory-minded Israelis and Palestinians try to incite a religious war, for the very first time in Israel’s history religious Jews and Muslims are…
From Orban to Le Pen, Europe’s nativist, anti-Muslim far right is affirming its grim alliance with Bosnia’s belligerent Serb nationalists, joining endorsements from Russia and…
A scant generation since committing the worst atrocities on European soil since the Holocaust, unrepentant Bosnian Serb leaders are on the secessionist warpath again. This…
The neo-fascist, anti-immigrant, Nazi-founded Sweden Democrats is rising in the polls while continuing its mendacious efforts to rebrand as ‘moderate’ nationalists – and ‘pro-Israel’ to…
Tunisia’s arc from igniting the Arab Spring ten years ago into an autocratic winter is tragic. For its 2000-year-old Jewish community, however, Kais Saied’s coup…
Pushing pro-Israel slogans and posing as allies against antisemitism and the ‘Muslim invasion’ of Europe, a fiercely xenophobic, Holocaust revisionist party in Germany has won…
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…
Holocaust educators in Germany often report that Germans of Muslim origin respond ‘wrongly’ to discussions about Nazi atrocities: Rather than remorse, they react with anxiety,…
When it comes to reputational damage, your company has more at stake than most. Why risk replaying your WWII infamy of using slave labor and…
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…
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…