On March 19, 2012, Mohammed Merah, a Frenchman of Algerian origin, killed a teacher and three children in front of the Toulouse Jewish school Otzar Hatorah. Earlier that month, he murdered three French soldiers. A few days after the Toulouse … [Read More]
Category Archives: 2012
In October 2011 it became known that the German EVZ Foundation had financed two high school student programs that promoted hatred of Israel. This state foundation was created to compensate Holocaust slave workers and fight contemporary anti-Semitism. In one program … [Read More]
As a rule book reviews deal with the author’s basic message. Nonetheless, a book may contain information seemingly of secondary importance which can turn out to be of considerable interest, particularly for a journal devoted to Jewish political studies. One … [Read More]
Stephen D. Smith is a Christian theologian in his early forties. Together with his brother James, he founded the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre near Nottingham, England, which opened in 1995. Smith presently heads the Shoah Foundation Institute in Los Angeles … [Read More]
Manfred Gerstenfeld reviews: Muslimischer Antisemitismus: Eine Aktuelle Gefahr [Muslim Anti-Semitism: Anti-Semitism: A Present Danger], by Robert S. Wistrich, Edition Critic, 2011, 161 pp. Published in the Jewish Political Studies Review Vol 24 3-4: Fall 2012 Historian Robert Wistrich holds the … [Read More]
Six Reasons for Europe’s Anti-Israel Bias From 1999-2004, Frits Bolkestein was the European Union’s commissioner responsible for the internal market, taxation, and customs union. Before that, he had been the Dutch Defense Minister and leader of the Liberal Party, VVD. In 2005, … [Read More]
Remembering Wannsee: History through Holocaust Movies Documentary filmmaker Willy Lindwer was born in 1946 in Amsterdam. He lives today in Jerusalem. For his widely shown movie “The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank,” he received the international Emmy Award in 1988 –the … [Read More]
How the Memory of the Holocaust is Abused in Italy “In January 2012, Ricardo Pacifici, President of the Rome Jewish Community said that every year around National Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27th, ‘we witness outrages and provocations that we … [Read More]
Polish War-Time Views on Jews: This is Not Your Home “Already in 1941 and 1942, the Allies made preliminary plans for organizing post-Hitler Europe. Yet the Jewish question did not figure into these early American, British and Russianprojects for the future. Neither can … [Read More]
Destroying the Memory of Jewish Presence: Yugoslavia A Case Study: Former Yugoslavia “The memory of the large pre-war Jewish presence in Eastern Europe is increasingly being destroyed. Part of this process is intentional; part because of neglect of Jewish sites … [Read More]