Genocide

From forced conversion to genocide: How Yazidis carry centuries of persecution into exile

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: The Islamic interpretation of the Yazidi faith is what members of ISIS used to justify the enslavement of over 6,000 women and children and the murder of more than 5,000 people.

A Yazidi woman holds a flame during the Charshama Sor Red New Year ceremony at the Lalish temple in Iraq in April. For a community repeatedly driven from its ancestral homes and subjected to forced conversions, religious tradition has become an enduring expression of survival and continuity.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (center) stands with Troy Jackson (left), who is now running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, and Graham Platner (right), who was then the Democrats' presumptive nominee, during Sanders' “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, May 24, 2026, in Orono, Maine.

Replacements for Graham Platner as Democratic senate candidate 'won't fund Israel's genocide'

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows speaks during a May Day rally organized by unions outside City Hall in Portland, Maine, on May 1, 2026.

Another Graham Platner potential replacement now says Israel committed genocide in Gaza

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at the Jews For Racial & Economic Justice’s (JFREJ) Seder in the Streets at Union Square on April 06, 2026 in New York City.

US Jews view Mamdani more favorably than Netanyahu, 7% say Hamas massacre justified - poll


Testimonies from Syria: First the genocide, now the famine

MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS: Syrian Druze first faced a genocide and now a state-manufactured famine, community activists tell the ‘Post.’

Tribal and Bedouin fighters deploy in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida, amid clashes with Druze gunmen in July 2025.

UK Labour party votes that Israel is committing genocide, pro-Palestine groups celebrate

The Labour Party also called for an end to arms sales to Israel, comprehensive sanctions, a ban on trade with internationally-deemed illegal settlements, and full access to humanitarian aid.

British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood speaks on stage, as Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy listens, at Britain's Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool, Britain, September 29, 2025.

Family of genocide term's creator move to block US institute from using his name

Formal complaint in Pennsylvania says the group misleads the public and distorts Raphael Lemkin’s legacy, while repeatedly accusing Israel of “genocide.”

An "End the genocide in Gaza" lawn sign is seen in Dearborn, Michigan, U.S. November 6, 2024.

Is the war against Hamas worth it? - opinion

Have we gone down a dark and seemingly endless hole, doubling down on an effort to erase the ineradicable, to set right the irretrievably wrong?

AN IDF convoy maneuvers on the Israeli side of the Gaza border last week. ‘I would suggest that this is our second war of independence, a test of our resolve to project and protect our sovereignty,’ says the writer.

While the world distorts, the Balkans remember: Dr. Zuroff’s legacy honored - opinion

As Israel faces false genocide claims, the Balkans honor Dr. Zuroff’s decades-long mission to preserve Holocaust truth and confront historical revisionism.

 (Illustrative) EFRAIM ZUROFF, former director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel Office, watches a procession commemorating the Latvian Waffen SS unit, also known as the Legionnaires, in Riga in 2010.

UK court throws out prosecution of member of Irish rap group Kneecap

Irish rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh wins court case to dismiss terrorism charge for displaying a Hezbollah flag during a 2024 Kneecap gig, with supporters claiming the charge was politically motivated.

People protest outside the Woolwich Crown Court amid the hearing of Kneecap member Liam O'Hanna, also known as Liam Og O hAnnaidh, who performs under the name of Mo Chara, and has been charged with a terrorism offence in relation for displaying a Hezbollah flag onstage in 2024, September 26, 2025.

Majority of Germans think Israel is committing genocide in Gaza - poll

The survey, which was conducted from September 17-18, found that 62% of all German voters believe that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

An IDF vehicle operating in Gaza, September 22, 2025.

Israel, Trump admin working to block UEFA from banning Israel from European soccer

A majority of UEFA member states are currently in favor of suspending the Jewish state, according to sources cited by The Times.

PAOK fans gather in the city center to protest against Maccabi Tel Aviv - Thessaloniki, Greece - September 24, 2025 General view of a Palestine flag as a banner is displayed during the protest reading "your pitch your choice boycott Israel."

Thessaloniki’s Armenian minority and Jewish past are bound by a shared history of genocide

The Armenian Genocide took place 110 years ago and is still often dismissed as a consequence of the First World War.

A document in a Thessaloniki museum shows the papers used to travel from the city, then known as Salonica, to British Mandate Palestine  before World War II.

'Accomplice of genocide': Spanish bookstore vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti

The owner of Pati De Llibres found on Tuesday morning that the bookstore's facade and windows had been spray-painted with a Palestinian flag and slogans.

A Sant Cugat del Vallès bookstore was vandalized on Tuesday with anti-Israel graffiti accusing the business of complicity in a supposed genocide in Gaza, according to the shop and local Jewish groups.