Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and U.S. President Donald Trump’s confidant, has been stirring an awful lot of unease lately. In the past two weeks, he has praised the extreme right-wing Alternative for Germany Party (AfD), raised his hand in a gesture that looked ominously like a stiff-arm Nazi salute, made light of notorious […]
Eighty years ago today, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in southern Poland, finding 7,000 emaciated inmates who had been left behind after the Germans evacuated this mass killing center in mid-January. When the battle-hardened Red Army reached the camp, it came upon a landscape of utter devastation. Boris Polevoy, a correspondent for the […]
In the final days of his four-year presidency of the United States, Joe Biden delivered a farewell speech defending his foreign policy legacy. Speaking at the State Department a week before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House for one more term, Biden boasted that, while the U.S. is stronger today, its “adversaries and […]
Donald Trump, the U.S. president-elect, is still ten days away from his inauguration in Washington, D.C., yet he is already causing shock waves in foreign capitals. In the past few weeks, he has unleashed a series of contentious comments strongly suggesting that he covets Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal. In this respect, he sounds […]
He was a divisive and corrosive force in French politics, and he will not be missed by the majority of voters. A rabble-rouser who pandered to xenophobia, racism and resentment, Jean-Marie Le Pen was the founder of the National Front and a major figure in the right-wing movement in contemporary France. Le Pen, who died […]
For reasons that have yet to be explained, a Canadian government agency has rebuffed a request by B’nai Brith Canada and its supporters to release a list of suspected Nazi war criminals who were permitted to settle in Canada following World War II. Among them were Germans who served in the German army and Ukrainians […]
What university would allow an American neo-Nazi like David Duke to teach a course on Jewish history? What university would hire a Ku Klux Klan bigot to deliver a lecture on the African American experience in the United States? None, it is safe to say. Yet disappointingly enough, Columbia University has deviated from that sacred […]
Israel made a foolish mistake by closing its embassy in Ireland, a decision that Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced on December 15. It comes across as a gratuitous public relations stunt that can neither benefit Israel nor its bilateral relations with Ireland. He resorted to this drastic and unnecessary step after Ireland joined South Africa’s […]
Amnesty International has discredited itself by accusing Israel of genocide, a crime it has not committed during its just, unavoidable and necessary war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Amnesty’s 296-page report charged that “Israel committed and is committing genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza. It added that Israel’s “unlawful conduct throughout its military offensive resulted […]
More than a year after one of the most egregious intelligence failures in Israel’s history, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stubbornly hews to the far-fetched claim that he should not be held accountable for the October 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel perpetrated by Hamas terrorists. Netanyahu contends that the time for accountability should come only […]