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.…
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‘Save our children’: Why the Republicans’ campaign accusing liberals of pedophilia, based on conspiracy theories and intimidation, sounds grimly familiar – and so ominous Source:…
After centuries of Tsarist and Soviet repression, the Putin era was a reversal of fortunes for Russian Jews, particularly for Chabad. But Russia’s Ukraine war…
‘Save our children’: Why the Republicans’ conspiratorial campaign accusing liberals of pedophilia sounds grimly familiar – and so ominous Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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Recent victories for Hungary’s Orban and Serbia’s Vucic are gifts for Putin. Amidst Russian atrocities in Ukraine, where is Western pressure on Europe’s most Kremlin-friendly…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Sanctions, sabotage and friends in the Gulf aren’t enough to stop Tehran going nuclear, but Israeli policy-makers are fumbling, captive to past blunders and current…
As further evidence emerges of the targeted use of rape by Russian forces in Ukraine, a war crime that is notoriously underreported and under-prosecuted, this…
For Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and the rest of the spokespeople for the pro-Russia, pro-authoritarian populist right, U.S. conservatives’ support for Ukraine and for Kyiv’s…
In a recent survey, 73 percent of Palestinians backed a prediction, popularized by Hamas preacher and YouTube icon Bassam Jarrar, that Israel will collapse by…
Ukrainians are not just fighting Russia’s army, they’re fighting an entire worldview that really isn’t interested in freedom – not just for Ukraine, but for…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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…
There’s never been a shortage of Russian genocidal fantasies about Ukraine but, until recently, they were confined to the political margins. Now, those fantasies and…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has radically ruptured the millions-strong Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora — our own families and friends included. Is the ex-Soviet Jewish world…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
There’s never been a shortage of Russian genocidal fantasies about Ukraine but, until recently, they were confined to the margins. Now, those fantasies and their…
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,…