Holocaust denial is a vicious form of antisemitism, a cudgel antisemites brandish to doubly punish Jews. Having implicitly or explicitly applauded the mass murder of Jews, they then vastly underplay its scale and severity, or deny it ever took place. In pursuit of their malicious agenda, they fabricate evidence and twist the facts. Bashar al-Assad, […]
Judy Rakowsky, an American journalist of Polish-Jewish descent, visited Poland in a succession of trips from 1991 onward in an effort to solve an enduring mystery on behalf of her older cousin, Sam Rakowsky. The issue at hand was the fate of his 16-year-old relative, Hena Rozenek, who vanished after her parents, sisters and brother […]
Fred Cavaye’s Farewell Mr. Haffmann is a searing morality tale on the fickleness of human nature under duress. Scheduled to be released in south Florida theaters on December 22 after appearing at Jewish film festivals in the United States, this absorbing movie unfolds in Nazi-occupied Paris between May 1941 and July 1942. This was an incredibly […]
On December 18, the United States belatedly announced the formation of a coalition of nations to curb Houthi attacks on cargo ships and oil tankers plying the waters of the Red Sea, through which 12 percent of global trade passes. It was a long overdue move. Houthi pirates in Yemen, backed by Iran, have been […]
In the past month, the Israeli government has issued a series of stark warnings to Hezbollah and the Lebanese authorities that Lebanon could be dragged into a fullscale war with Israel. Israeli officials have warned Lebanon that a major war could erupt if diplomacy falls short of inducing Hezbollah to withdraw from Israel’s border or […]
It was, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succinctly said, “an unbearable tragedy.” On the morning of December 15, three male Israeli hostages held by Hamas since the October 7 massacre — Yotam Haim and Alon Shamriz of kibbutz Kfar Aza and Samar Fouad Talalka of kibbutz Nir Am — were mistakenly killed in a […]
The clock is ticking ever more loudly. Israel is under increasing international and U.S. pressure to scale down its land and air offensive in the Gaza Strip. But the Israeli government insists that it will press on relentlessly until Hamas is categorically defeated, no longer poses a threat to its security, and is removed as […]
Driven out of Germany in 1937, movie director Detlef Sierck settled in Los Angeles, hoping to restart his career in Hollywood. He could have avoided exile had his wife not been Jewish and had he been a fascist devoted to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. In America, he anglicized his name to Douglas Sirk, and within […]
Regrettably, Canada has voted for a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where Israel and Hamas have been locked in fierce combat since the end of October. Until yesterday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resisted pressure to support an immediate truce, understanding that Israel requires far more […]
Luke Holland’s frank and sober movie, Final Account, deals with two under-documented facets of the Holocaust — the German perpetrators who carried out their crimes and the bystanders who passively watched them happen. Now available on Netflix, it unfolds against the backdrop of mounting antisemitism in Nazi Germany and the eruption of the Kristallnacht pogrom, […]