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 […]
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has issued a rare public rebuke of Israel, saying he felt compelled to speak out because “international humanitarian law is really being violated” in Gaza. The comments come as the Israeli army is expanding its fighting in Gaza in order to, it says, take control of the vast majority of the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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When Emily Austin was 16, a Holocaust education trip to Poland changed her life. The child of secular Israeli immigrants to New York, Austin grew up in Brooklyn and decided early on that being a Jew was important to her identity. But after the Poland trip, Jewish pride and combating antisemitism took center stage in […]
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Police in Belgium searched three private homes on Wednesday as part of an investigation into illegal ritual circumcisions, according to local news reports. Two of the homes were in Antwerp’s Jewish Quarter and the third was in the city’s Green Quarter, according to the Belgian news site VRT, which reported that the investigation was initiated […]
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When Donald Trump entered his second term as president, he found a full-throated supporter in South Africa’s chief rabbi. Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein said in February that South Africans “should welcome the Trump administration’s interventions” in the country’s affairs, praising the president in a widely distributed video message. A vocal critic of the South African […]
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The German government banned a far-right antisemitic group that claims the German Reich still exists and arrested four of its leaders — including the self-proclaimed “king” of Germany. The group, the “Kingdom of Germany,” is the largest organizing group of the Reichsbürger, or “citizens of the Reich” movement, which believes that the country’s Nazi-era 1937 […]
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