Category: World News

(JR) — Poland is heading to the polls in a neck-and-neck presidential election that will shape the country’s future on the world stage — and its approach to history. On Sunday, voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw, and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian who […]

(JR) — Poland is heading to the polls in a neck-and-neck presidential election that will shape the country’s future on the world stage — and its approach to history. On Sunday, voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw, and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian who […]

A French parliamentary committee unanimously approved a bill this week to posthumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, more than 130 years after he was framed for treason in one of the defining antisemitic incidents of the 19th century. In what became known as the Dreyfus affair, Dreyfus, a Jewish French army captain, was falsely accused of espionage […]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — On Saturdays, the Jewish day of rest, there is barely a quorum of 10 for prayers at the old synagogue in Northern Ireland’s capital city. But every other Wednesday, the place is hopping. A gaggle of seniors gathers for lectures, conversation, lunch and socializing. Only some of them are Jewish. “I […]

Pope Leo XIV renewed his calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, decrying suffering there and evoking the image of parents in Gaza who “clutch the lifeless bodies of their children.” “From the Gaza Strip,” Leo said in an audience at the Vatican Wednesday, “rising ever more insistently to the heavens, the cries of mothers and […]

A group of Christian Zionists in South Korea opened the country’s first Holocaust museum Monday, a project they say was driven by a local rise in antisemitism during the Gaza war. The museum was founded by the Korea Israel Bible Institute (KIBI), a Christian organization established in 1994, in the city of Paju. The Holocaust […]

BERDYCHIV, Ukraine — Back in early 2022, Hennadiy Kysliuk felt that he was on the verge of a breakthrough in his mission to create a memorial at the site where Nazis massacred this Ukrainian city’s Jews in six pits on a single day in 1941. Kysliuk, who is a leader of Berdychiv’s Orthodox Jewish community, thought […]

Gary Lineker, the former soccer star and long-time sportscaster for the BBC, is leaving the broadcaster amid backlash after reposting an Instagram story about Zionism that featured a rat emoji. Lineker announced his resignation on Monday, six days after a British antisemitism watchdog called for him to be dismissed over the post. “Perhaps Mr Lineker […]

A far-right politician from a political party with a record of minimizing the Holocaust will not lead Romania, after a tense runoff election finished with the centrist candidate winning 54% of the vote. The outcome was seen as surprising because George Simion, of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, had been far ahead in […]