Genocide
Losing Our Illusions
Italy After Gaza
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in a middle-class, northern Italian household.(...)
Kutno After the Holocaust
The Sholem Asch Festival
Reading Politics
The Battleground’s Fall Books List
Jewish and European
Agnieszka Holland’s Europa Europa
Agnieszka Holland’s 1990 film Europa Europa tells a powerful tale of World War II and the Holocaust, all the more awful for the absurdity it conveys.(...)
A Day of Shame
9 May in Montenegro
On that hundredth day, that ninth of May 1942, at opposite ends of Nikšić, two people, Ljubo Čupić and Joka Baletić, went to their deaths because they stood up against fascism.(...)
Sharing the Tragedy
Nakba Day in Torino
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. (...)
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.(...)
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. (...)