Alberto Nisman’s Mysterious Death in Argentina Manfred Gerstenfeld’s interviews Gustavo Perednik “In January 2015, 51-year-old Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his home with a gun near his left hand, the day before he was due to present … [Read More]
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What Israel Should Learn from the Greek Crisis The current Greek financial and social crisis is not only the result of poor management of many successive Greek governments. A huge contribution to this calamity has also been made by various … [Read More]
Teaching American Jewish Students about the Israel-Arab Conflict Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews Dr. Irwin J. (Yitzchak) Mansdorf “Over the past decade, I’ve developed a curriculum on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for American Jewish students who are studying in Israel for the year. … [Read More]
Yes, apologies for Shoah behavior still matter More than 60 years after the Shoah official apologies from countries and institutions which collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust still trickle in. Eastern European heads of state have almost turned these … [Read More]
The Israeli-Irish troubles ‘If one were to throw a sack of flour over the Irish parliament, it is unlikely that anybody pro-Israeli would get white,” says Rory Miller. “Among the 120 members of the D il – the Irish parliament’s … [Read More]
The fragile rebirth of Polish Jewry When Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich was punched and pepper-sprayed on a Warsaw street in May while his attacker shouted “Poland for the Poles,” it may have seemed to some that history was repeating … [Read More]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Israel Her preoccupation with security is felt throughout our conversation. Before Ayaan Hirsi Ali arrives in the hotel where we meet, one of her state-provided guards tells me she can only sit at one specific table … [Read More]
Are we reliving the 1930s? Elie Wiesel noted that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the recent United Nations General Assembly calling for the destruction of Israel demonstrates that the world has learned nothing from the Holocaust. The upcoming 70th … [Read More]
Persecutors and persecuted In the Western world Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are often falsely presented as equal forms of discrimination. French President Nicolas Sarkozy referred to this recently during his visit to Algeria, when he said that nothing is more similar … [Read More]
Lessons from Srebrenica On February 26, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague published a judgment ruling that the July 1995 massacre of an estimated 7,000-8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces was … [Read More]