Joel Schalit / 17 May 2022
Sharing the Tragedy
Nakba Day in Torino
No European city knows the Nakba like Berlin. At least in my part of town, Neukölln.(...)
Genocide
Joel Schalit / 25 Jan 2022
Tremors of War
Holocaust Memorial Day in Torino
It’s an awkward sort of honour. But Torino always has the best Holocaust Memorial Day billboards. (...)
Filip Noubel / 06 Oct 2021
Turkey’s Abandonment of the Uyghurs
Why Erdoğan Gave In
Turkey has traditionally been an ally of the Uyghurs due to strong linguistic, cultural, and religious ties.(...)
Joe Keady / 21 Feb 2020
Hatred Made Him Do It
The Tobias Rathjen Murders
The facts of the Hanau killings are not in dispute: the assailant, 43-year-old Tobias Rathjen, entered a hookah bar on Wednesday night and began firing indiscriminately before shooting several more people at a kiosk. (...)
Joel Schalit / 27 Jan 2020
When the Present is the Past
20th Century Nostalgia Politics
Hitler never pretended to like Jews. His hatred was unambiguous. (...)
John Foster / 10 Jan 2020
Imagining a Europe Made Whole
Simone Zelitsch’s Judenstaat
Perhaps it is a sign of the wounds inflicted by National Socialism that so much speculative fiction has been written exploring how things might have turned out differently. (...)
Joel Schalit / 21 Oct 2019
If Not Now, When?
The Crisis in Rojava
When was the last time that Washington backed the good guys? Barack Obama's support for Syria's Kurds was always a fraught proposition.(...)
Joel Schalit / 16 Oct 2019
Last Train to Halle
History At a Standstill
I've never gotten the hang of taking trains in Germany. I avoid using them whenever possible.(...)
Joel Schalit / 15 May 2019
The Weight of Auschwitz
Poland Battles With Its Past
“You must come to Auschwitz. I go there once a year, with a group of third-generation Holocaust survivors.” Blond-haired and blue-eyed, in his late thirties, I found it hard to place him there.(...)