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]
Category Archives: Publications
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]
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]
Boycott battle won – the war goes on A few days ago the University and College Union (UCU) in the UK announced the termination of its involvement with plans for an academic boycott of Israel, because such an action would … [Read More]
Time to scrutinize ‘Cordaid’ In 2001 the Dutch Roman Catholic NGO Cordaid was indirectly involved in financing the largest anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish hate campaign of the twenty-first century, the UN World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa. This supposedly … [Read More]