The late-May anti-Israeli resolution at the first conference of the University and College Union (UCU) in the United Kingdom launched a new round in the debate on boycotting Israel. This controversy was initiated in 2002, also in the UK. In … [Read More]
Category Archives: 2007
Interview with Ivan Ceresnjes During wars, Jewish communities often become scapegoats and victims of the combatants. In the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the early 1990s, the opposite happened. The Jewish community in the country’s capital Sarajevo extended humanitarian services indiscriminately … [Read More]
The Nonintegrated Moroccans in the Netherlands Het Marokkanendrama (The Moroccans’ Drama) by Fleur Jurgens, J. M. Meulenhoff, 2007, 176 pp. [Dutch] Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld The indiscriminate mass immigration from non-Western countries to Western Europe over the past decades … [Read More]
Mingling Disclosures and Distortions Het Zijn Net Mensen: Beelden Uit het Midden-Oosten (They Are Like Human Beings: Pictures from the Middle East) by Joris Luyendijk, Uitgeverij Podium, 2006, 215 pp. [Dutch] Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld From 1998 to … [Read More]
The immigration of a large number of Muslims into the Netherlands over the past four decades has led to major challenges for the Dutch Jewish community. These include, for instance, increased verbal and physical violence against Jews and the Jewish … [Read More]
Recent years have seen greatly increased attempts to manipulate Holocaust history and its memory. For several decades much attention has been devoted to Holocaust denial. Distortions of the Holocaust past, however, occur in many other ways. The number of mutations … [Read More]
The new edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica gives many insights into how Jewish life and Jewish knowledge have been transformed since the first edition came out in 1972. Jews contribute in every sphere of human knowledge and endeavor including arts, … [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]
Distortions of memory Many thought, somewhat naively, that in the new century Holocaust memory would finally remain unchallenged. The opposite has happened, however: The manipulation of Holocaust history by the Jews’ enemies is expanding, and so is the number of … [Read More]