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Israel officially recognizes Armenian Genocide after decades of diplomatic friction - analysis

Israel’s recognition of the genocide has been decades in the making. It's been a strange aspect of Israel’s history that, for many years, the Armenian genocide was downplayed in official circles.

Members of the Armenian community in Jaffa perform a pray during a memorial service held to mark the 106th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, at the Armenian Church of Saint Nicholas, in Jaffa, April 24, 2021.
US rapper and producer Kanye West gestures upon arriving at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on July 11, 2025.

Kanye West performs in Tampa despite protests of antisemitism, petition from Sen. Rick Scott

A portrait of the late historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch adorns the facade of the Pantheon before his induction ceremony along with his wife Simonne Vidal in Paris, France, June 23, 2026.

Jewish hero’s inclusion in French Panthéon uncorks divisions over who wears mantle of resistance

Robin Bigga-Piskernig is interning as part of an Austrian program that sends youth abroad to learn and teach about the Holocaust.

Austria once denied its Nazi past, now it sends young people abroad to confront it


This week in Jewish history: Miracle aids and antibiotics

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

 THANK YOU, Selman Waksman, for isolating streptomycin.

Lost music from Auschwitz performed after 80 years

The music Geyer documented was played for the first time in 80 years at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre on June 3-7, 2025.

 THE WORDS ‘arbeit macht frei’ hang above the gate at Auschwitz.

Staro Sajmiste: Belgrade's fairground of death for the Balkans' Jews

From formidable fairground to a camp of death, the dark history of the Nazi camp within Belgrade’s borders

 Prisoners of the Staro Sajmište concentration camp in Belgrade.

Thompson promotes Holocaust distortion - his lies unchallenged - opinion

Perković is a fanatic Croatian nationalist who is a great admirer of the Ustasha (ustaša), a notorious terrorist movement.

 Stage is being built for the Croatian singer Marko Perkovic Thompson poised to break world record for largest paid concert in Zagreb, Croatia, July 2, 2025.

Small Illinois town reeling after Nazi symbol appears in yard

A swastika mowed into a front lawn in the Illinois town of Alhambra prompted a hate-crime investigation by Madison County authorities last week.

A Nazi armband with a swastika displayed in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

Grapevine, May 25, 2025: Resilience in the face of racism

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

L-R) DANNA AZRIELI, Yeshayahu Menat, and Galit Gal

The Dragon from Chicago: On the American reporting from Nazi Germany - book review

Sigrid Schultz was the historic figure branded “that dragon from Chicago” by Hermann Göring, Hitler’s number two man angered by Schultz’s fearless reporting about the Nazis. 

 HERMANN GÖRING (first row, far L) and other Nazi criminals in the dock at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-46

Three British neo-Nazis convicted of planning attack as part of 'race war'

The three pleaded not guilty to counts of preparing an act of terrorism, but they were all convicted by the Sheffield Crown Court.

Marchers on the far-right are seen in London, Britain, on October 26, 2024

On this day: Adolf Eichmann captured in Argentina by Mossad

Eichmann was hanged at midnight on June 1, 1962; he was the only person in Israel’s history to be executed by the state.

 Adolf Eichmann, pictured in 1941/1942, in his SS uniform. Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 before being captured by the Mossad in 1960.

Victory over Nazism and the rise of a Jewish homeland: a personal reflection – opinion

80 years after VE day, a survivor of the Holocaust reflects on antisemtism, the Nazi regime, and the modern State of Israel.

  Starving Holocaust survivors. Bones are brittle and muscles are atrophied