Lebanon has elected a new president after two years of political indecision, but not before some unexpected characters received votes — including Sen. Bernie Sanders, an American Jew. Lebanon’s president is elected by the parliament for a six-year term and, under the country’s system, must be a Maronite Christian. The eventual victor was the country’s […]
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A memorial to Jews deported from the Warsaw Ghetto was defaced with graffiti appearing to equate the Holocaust with the war in Gaza. The graffiti makes Warsaw’s Umschlagplatz memorial the latest of a string of Holocaust monuments to be vandalized with anti-Israel messages. The marble structure commemorates the spot where hundreds of thousands of Jews […]
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right French leader who espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric and was convicted of Holocaust denial, has died at 96. His death was announced on social media by Jordan Bardella, a leader of the party Le Pen founded. “Enlisted in the uniform of the French army in Indochina and Algeria, tribune of […]
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Austria’s far-right Freedom Party, which was founded by former Nazis, has been given a mandate to form a governing coalition, positioning it to lead the country for the first time since World War II. The Freedom Party won the most votes in national elections in September, but a group of more moderate parties engaged in […]
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will step down from his post and from his party leadership amid plummeting poll numbers and dissent from his own deputies, he announced Monday, a decision that comes as his country’s Jewish leaders have harshly criticized him for perceived failures to support Israel and stand against antisemitism. Trudeau said he […]
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A massive trove of documents about suspected Nazi collaborators in the Netherlands is now open to the public for the first time. For the past seven decades, only researchers and relatives of those accused of collaborating with the Nazis could access the information held by the Dutch Central Archives of the Special Administration of Justice. […]
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BERLIN — A German court has ruled that an 85-year-old woman and her son who live in a property sold under duress by its Jewish owners in 1939 must give up their home. The ruling earlier this month capped a decade of legal wrangling over the home, located in Wandlitz, outside Berlin. For many paying […]
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Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, lit candles with the country’s Chabad rabbis on Wednesday, marking the third wartime Hanukkah since Russia’s 2022 invasion. “It’s very good that Ukraine we can all live together, all fight the darkness, as Shmuel Kaminetsky said,” Zelensky said in a video released by his office, referring to the chief rabbi […]
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Authorities in Guatemala raided the compound of Lev Tahor, an extremist Jewish sect, and removed 160 children and teenagers after allegations of abuse and human trafficking. The law enforcement raid on Friday is the latest legal action against the group, which is often described as a cult. In 2022, two leaders of the sect were […]
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On September 12, Dr. Oleg Maltsev, a renowned Ukrainian scientist with international recognition, was arrested by Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) on charges of organizing illegal paramilitary formations. The arrest has sparked widespread debate, with many questioning the motives behind the accusations, suggesting they may be politically motivated. As details surrounding the case continue to […]
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