Holocaust

People stand still in Tel Aviv, as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 24, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Why I will not stand for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day siren

A state that commits genocide cannot claim to honor the Holocaust. Each ceremony it holds in its name defiles the memory of the victims.

By Orly Noy April 13, 2026

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz holds a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 7, 2025. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Germany never stopped arming Israel’s genocide

A new bilateral cybersecurity deal and the continued flow of weapons leave little ambiguity about Germany's stance: not accountability, but normalization.

By Hanno Hauenstein January 20, 2026

A Palestinian flag at a protest against U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Chicago, June 10, 2025. (Paul Goyette/CC BY 2.0)

Fighting fascism in America during a genocide in Palestine

We must insist on drawing connections across time and place — from the Holocaust to Gaza, or ICE detention to Israeli prisons — to disrupt the normalization of authoritarianism at every turn.

By Amahl Bishara December 30, 2025

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Right-wing Israelis protest near the Gaza border in support of the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Strip, in southern Israel, July 30, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is our only remedy

The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. It must be confronted at its root.

By Orly Noy September 18, 2025

Richard Peter's "View from the Town Hall Tower to the South, 1945," showing Dresden reduced to dust and ruin in the aftermath of Allied bombings. (Deutsche Fotothek‎)

Germany’s angel of history is screaming

As Israel obliterates Gaza with Berlin's backing, German public support is plummeting. Yet the government is crushing dissent and refusing to change course — all in the name of atoning for Germany's own genocidal history.

By Amos Brison August 1, 2025

Israelis look on as smoke rises from an Israeli military operation in the northern Gaza Strip, July 23, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Is this Gaza’s ‘bomb the tracks’ moment?

With Gaza’s annihilation in plain sight, the question is what can compel global intervention to end Israel's genocide — and what form it will take.

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 25, 2025

A convoy of Israeli tanks at sunset near the southern Israeli border with Gaza, October 12, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

When ‘never again’ becomes a war cry

In an Israeli war that has been retrofitted onto a Holocaust template, it is obscene that a plea to stop further killing is now read as moral failure.

By Natasha Soffer-Roth October 28, 2023

A participant in the annual "March of the Living" event at Auschwitz concentration camp, May 2, 2011. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Learning the wrong lessons from the Holocaust

After World War II, states rightly took seriously the fight against antisemitism. But that mission must not embolden Israel's oppression of Palestinians.

By Alon Confino February 2, 2023

Noam Shuster.

WATCH: Why don’t Israelis ever hear about Republican antisemitism?

A Republican lawmaker can call for teaching 'both sides' of the Holocaust, yet Israeli anchors will still direct their rage at Democrats critical of Israel.

By Noam Shuster-Eliassi July 24, 2022

Israeli forces stand guard during the demolition of a Palestinian home, located within "Area C" of the West Bank, near Hebron, December 28, 2021. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

A colonized Palestine isn’t the answer to the world’s guilt

Zionism's synergy with right-wing populists has exploited antisemitism to justify apartheid. And Palestinians refuse to be its silent victims.

By Tareq Baconi June 20, 2022

A copy of Amnesty International's new report accusing Israel of committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, launched in Jerusalem on February 1, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Why is Amnesty Germany staying silent on the apartheid report?

Amnesty Germany’s discomfort with publicizing the new report on Israeli apartheid highlights the sorry state of human rights discourse in the country.

By Michael Sappir February 3, 2022

Palestine solidarity protest in Berlin, Germany, May 15, 2018. (Hossam el-Hamalawy/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

In Germany, universities are leading the charge against Palestine solidarity

Conservatism and historical guilt are shrinking the space for Palestine activism in Germany — and campuses are among the fiercest battlegrounds of all.

By Hebh Jamal November 9, 2021

Israelis hold flags and dance during the Flag March at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, June 15, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Liberal Zionism is dying. Will foregoing the Jewish state save it?

A new book calls for Zionism to be re-envisioned as a binational project in order to shed Jewish historical trauma and salvage democratic values.

By Shaul Magid August 10, 2021