The recovery of six deceased hostages on August 31 in a Hamas tunnel under the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah has further divided Israel. This combustible issue has torn the country asunder far more than Israel’s acceptance of German reparations in the 1950s, its lack of preparedness for the 1973 Yom Kippur War, its […]
As Israel fights Palestinian forces in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli troops have been drawn into a third front in the West Bank, which is inhabited by three million Palestinians and 500,000 Israelis. In the past few days, Israel has conducted significant counter-terrorism operations in the northern West Bank in a bid […]
Europeans who committed genocidal crimes during the Holocaust cannot be forgiven, regardless of their age. There is no statute of limitations on murder, either legally or morally. Perpetrators like Irmgard Furchner, a 99-year-old German woman who was given a lenient two-year sentence in 2022 as an accessory to murder in a Nazi concentration camp, richly […]
Nearly a month after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran has yet to fulfill its pledge to attack Israel in a retaliatory strike. Israel did not take formal responsibility for his death, but Iran is absolutely certain that Israel assassinated him, an assumption that rings true. Israel, however, had no hesitation […]
The relatively limited preemptive strikes by Israel in southern Lebanon in the early hours of August 25 appear to have dealt Hezbollah, Iran’s chief proxy in the Middle East, a punishing blow. Israel went on the offensive after learning that Hezbollah was on the cusp of launching a massive rocket and drone attack. The Israeli […]
It is debatable whether Canadian labor leader Fred Hahn is an antisemite, but he is certainly grossly insensitive to Jews and undeniably hostile toward Israel. Which makes him a highly divisive leader and an ignoble character who does not belong in his job. On August 21, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced it […]
The sons and daughters of Nazi dignitaries were children of privilege in Adolf Hitler’s Germany. But after its defeat in World War II, they were often regarded as lepers tarred by their association with a genocidal regime. Tania Crasnianski, a criminal lawyer of German, French and Russian descent whose grandfather served in the German Air […]
Nathan Silver, in his quirky comedy, Between the Temples, presents viewers with the oddest of couples: a cantor and a music teacher old enough to be his mother. Normally, an age difference on this scale might feel creepy, but here it feels virtually normal. Scheduled to open in theaters in Canada on August 23, this […]
With students scheduled to return to classes next month, universities in the United States have adopted stringent new rules to limit pro-Palestinian protests, which erupted on campuses following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip last October. Under the new regulations, encampments will be banned, protests will be allowed only in designated […]
Even as it is enmeshed in a multi-front war in the Middle East, Israel is busy creating facts on the ground in the West Bank to ensure that a Palestinian state is never established. Several days ago, an Israeli government agency, the Civil Administration, allotted 148 acres of land for Nahal Heletz, which will be […]