Two major news stories to hit the headlines in Germany this month focused rather strikingly on negative depictions of Jews in works of art, raising once more the question of whether these visual displays need to be contextualized and explaine…
As a kid in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember that the adults around me had a standard explanation for why so many countries around the world kept Israel at arms’ length.
There was another significant announcement from an Arab capital June 9 about relations with Israel when Qatar, the wealthy Gulf nation that provides Hamas with financial and political support, confirmed that Israeli citizens would be permitte…
The ugly truth about France is that Jewish people are not safe from antisemitic attacks even in their own homes. This has been proved time and again in the last few years, most recently in the city of Lyon.
It is the sort of resolution one would expect to be tabled before the U.N. General Assembly or even Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, but not the U.S. Congress.
It took several days, but eventually, the world’s media grasped why the scandal at Frankfurt Airport, when more than 100 Orthodox Jews were prevented by the German airline Lufthansa from boarding a connecting flight to Budapest, was so shocking.
Did Russian President Vladimir Putin really apologize to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for the atrocious remarks on the Holocaust uttered by his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov?
A recent letter delivered to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres by 200 former senior U.N. officials included a bleak warning regarding the consequences should diplomacy fail to end Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Such an outcome wou…
