Much to the consternation and alarm of most Germans, the Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) won the recent election in Thuringia and finished second in neighboring Saxony, both of which are in eastern Germany. Chillingly enough, this was the first time since the 12-year Nazi interregnum that a far-right party had amassed a majority of […]
Pierre Goldman was a throwback to the past, a fervent left-wing Jewish revolutionary who sought to upend the existing social and political order and who was prepared to accept the consequences. Accused of armed robbery and murder, he attempted to prove his innocence through two sensational trials in the mid-1970s that touched on issues such […]
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s recent decision to suspend the export of some weapons to Israel was disappointing but not surprising. Starmer, the leader of the left-of-center Labor Party, is far more critical of Israel than his right-wing Conservative predecessor, Rishi Sunak, who was generally supportive of Israel’s just military campaign to eradicate Hamas and […]
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 […]