Up-Close Killers, Then and Now
What kind of human being is capable of walking up to another person—an innocent, defenseless, unarmed civilian—and, at close range, shooting him or her?
The Dark Irony of the Gaza Flotilla: An Heiress of Nazi Profits Accuses Israel of Genocide
In one of history’s most bitter ironies, Marlene Engelhorn, a multimillionaire heiress whose family fortune was built on Nazi genocide, has joined a Gaza-bound flotilla as she accuses Israel of genocide.
Munich Christians Form Human Chain to Protect Synagogue from “Pro-Palestinians”
The synagogue was in the path of an anti-Israel protest organized under the slogan “Stop the Genocide. Free Palestine” by the group Palestine Speaks.
Israel Demands Hostage Releases, Hezbollah Warns of Action, and IDF Faces Legal Challenges
Israel has countered Hamas’ initial offer in ceasefire negotiations by demanding the release of at least ten living hostages. Meanwhile, legal battles are escalating in Germany where an NGO has filed a complaint against an IDF soldier. Also, Hezbollah’s leader has issued a stern warning that the group may take further actions against Israel.
The world should be on trial in Jerusalem
After Israel defeats Hamas in Gaza, should it try the Oct. 7 terrorists Eichmann-style in Jerusalem? Or, given Israel’s unfairly tainted reputation, might such a trial be seen as more “impartial” if it were held in Nuremberg?
Holocaust Remembrance: By the Numbers
January 27 is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and was designated as the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The day remembers the killing of six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population, and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
Calling on Christians: Be a modern day Bonhoeffer; Fight Hamas
The antisemitism spreading across the world seems eerily similar to the hatred of the Nazi rallies of pre-war Germany. In this context, the October 7 massacre became the Kristallnacht of our era.
A Bavarian scandal shines a light on Germany’s ‘Holocaust guilt’
“Anyone who thinks, writes down and spreads such thoughts must not bear any political responsibility in Germany,” declared Saskia Esken, chair of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). But not everyone would agree.
Jew-hatred struts the stage in Berlin
The obscene spectacle staged by musician Roger Waters exposes the moral vacuum in Holocaust memorializing.
The Rampant Use and Abuse of the Holocaust Analogy
From Donald Trump to Sergei Lavrov to Ken Burns, everyone is comparing everyone else to the Nazis.