Zionism blends Jewish trauma with settler-colonial power, creating a narcissistic identity that justifies supremacy and erases Palestinian existence.
The Holocaust should serve as a universal warning against genocide. Instead it is invoked to sanitise Israel’s persecution of Palestinians
Time for a new treaty to deal with crimes against humanity? Here’s what you need to know
Fatal attractions are blind and delusional and thus destructive. The consequences may be a backlash against Biden, the US losing its little moral authority is has, an end to any…
South African-born Jewish artist Candice Breitz has had her exhibition in a German museum scrapped
Our grief for people we have not personally known is informed by the narratives and stories we are exposed to – but these stories are not equally told
Raping women and beheading children is not a struggle for human rights or freedom, it is a massacre
One cannot choose one’s race or nationality, but one can choose one’s political views and live by those choices
The fact that mass killings should still take place in our modern world shows that we need to do more to oppose it
As countries in the Global North push to escalate the war in Ukraine, the Global South has overwhelmingly pushed for a perspective of dialogue and peace
An installation and a documentary about the notorious residential school system amplify calls to define such deaths worldwide as genocide
Populist politicians increasingly blame migrants for a range of problems. At home, the government, police and even trade unionists are doing the same.
The amendment is designed to remove fines or criminal penalties for anyone found guilty of ascribing Nazi crimes to the Polish state
For decades after the war, the German government showed little haste to track down many of those involved in the organised mass murder
The law sets fines or a maximum three-year jail term for anyone who describes Nazi German death camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau as being Polish
“I wanted to show the hypocrisy and double standard that black suffering is totally disregarded and in fact it’s encouraged,” he told The Daily Vox.
During the first week of May, the Jewish communities of seven South African cities will come together to mark Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Chris Zithulele Mann says that to remove the statue is to ignore what lurks within all of us, making it more difficult to identify our own prejudices.
‘Final Solution’ balances stories of Nazi Germany and the extermination of Europe’s Jews and reveals the treatment meted out to them post-World War II
Readers write in about contraceptives, Holocaust education and the danger of essentialising.
