Stalinism in a keffiyeh
The obscene Kufiyas in Buchenwald protest planned for this Sunday reflects a concerted leftist drive to equate Israel with Nazi Germany
Holocaust
30 postsThe genocide against the Jews instigated by the Nazis before and during the second world war.
The fallacies of anti-Zionism
On the fundamentally flawed autobiography of a leading Israeli politician turned anti-Zionist
A hideous act of Holocaust distortion
An example of the grotesque trend to distort the Holocaust by using its memory to demonise Israel
Explaining the Holocaust paradox
America’s awareness of the Holocaust only started to come to the fore in the 1970s with the emergence of a broader victim culture
The counter-Holocaust industry
Norman Finkelstein’s work is part of a sustained anti-Zionist offensive to distort the memory of the Holocaust
The truth about Nuremberg
At the Nuremberg war crimes trials the victorious Allies expressed little concern about the fate of the Jews under the Nazis
On Holocaust relativisation
The notes for my introduction to the Battle of Ideas session on the relativisation of the Holocaust
Battle of Ideas Holocaust debate
I will be debating Holocaust relativisation at this year's annual Battle of Ideas weekend in London
South African interview on genocide debate
A podcast interview on a South African controversy on Israel's alleged genocide
Notable Jews shifting against Israel
The increasing number of prominent Jews turning against Israel is part of a broader international trend against the nation-state and democracy
Underestimating the depravity
Simon Schama’s documentary on The Road to Auschwitz powerfully portrays the extent of non-Jewish complicity in Nazi killing but ends up underestimating the Holocaust’s depravity
The World After Gaza: turning the Holocaust against Israel
Pankaj Mishra's polemic features what may be the most shameful minimisation of 7 October committed to print.
The tragic myth of ‘never again’
The idea that there was a promise of 'never again' to the Jewish people after the horrors of the Holocaust is sadly untrue
How Jews were turned into the ‘new Nazis’
Eighty years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, the Holocaust is now routinely weaponised against Israel
The evolution of Omer Bartov
How a distinguished Israeli-American expert on the Holocaust is leading the charge of those falsely accusing Israel of genocide