Activists in Hamburg are commemorating the displacement of Palestinians this week in a park where Jews were deported during World War II, following a legal fight that ended in their favor.
US soldier who protected Jews in POW camp during WWII to be awarded Medal of Honor
An American soldier who is credited with saving the lives of 200 Jewish comrades in a prisoner of war camp in Germany during World War II will receive the U.S. military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.
How Holocaust Movies Help Us Understand Rising Antisemitism
Films tend to reflect our anxieties. So it’s probably not a coincidence that we’re getting so many Holocaust-themed movies at the same time as rising antisemitism has been in the news.
Israeli survivors of Kristallnacht mark 87th anniversary of Nazi riots amid rising antisemitism
Walter Bingham was 14 years old when Nazis plundered Jewish businesses and places of worship across Germany and Austria in what became known as Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass.”
Lisbon to Auschwitz to Alligator Alcatraz: Cruelty and the human face of evil
There are few things more characteristic of the Trump regime than cruelty, often gratuitous cruelty. It is the human face of evil in one of its most repellent forms. Susan Nieman, in her masterful work Evil In Modern Thought: An…
It’s not just the Young Republicans we need to worry about
Despite how often you hear that America no longer is racist, we remain a racist culture. The difference between the racism of 1950 and 2025: Racism then was proudly displayed in public. The language, the signs, the laws, the culture…
Memoir reveals heart, theology of French pastor who saved Jews
He’s been called a hero for standing up to the Nazis as they unleashed Hitler’s Final Solution to kill Europe’s Jews. But André Trocmé saw himself as a devoted follower of Jesus and Protestant pastor in a small French village…
Holocaust survivors say latest hostage videos recall their own condition 80 years ago
Holocaust survivors say the hostage videos published in recent days recall for them their own torture and deprivation under the Nazis eight decades ago.
Israel bears no responsibility for 50,000 dead Palestinians and those now starving, Huckabee says
Israel bears no responsibility for the 50,000 Palestinians — one-third of whom are minors — killed in Gaza, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told National Public Radio May 21. Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist pastor, has been described as…
Freed hostage Emily Damari to Pulitzer board: Mosab Abu Toha is ‘the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier’
An Israeli released from Hamas captivity earlier this year is objecting to the Pulitzer Prize awarded this week to Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, charging that he is “the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier” because of his derisive comments about…
Without the Persians/Iranians, there would be no Jews
Twenty-five year ago, give or take, I asked myself a rather straightforward question: “Why is it seemingly impossible to have peace in the Middle East?” After expending a quarter century in research, shedding blood, sweat and tears in the process,…
Musk says Stalin, Mao and Hitler ‘didn’t murder millions of people’
The billionaire whose “efficiency” actions are killing and harming children and adults across the world now says Adolf Hitler and other dictators of the 20th century didn’t actually murder millions of people. Last Thursday, Elon Musk reposted on X: “Stalin,…