World war ii

Canada declassifies report exposing US intelligence role in resettling Nazis after WWII

In early September, the Federal Court sided with B'nai Brith, ordering the government to remove almost all redactions from the 618-page report pursuant to the Access to Information Act.

Corporal Urban Mayo from Ontario, Canada, watches the warning under the double swastikas on the border of German in the Canadian sector of the Western Front a few month before the end of World War II, February 14, 1945
Inside the WWII-era air-raid shelter discovered in Saxony-Anhalt, October 9, 2026.

WWII air-raid shelter buried beneath German playground rediscovered during construction work

British mystery author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) autographing French editions of her books, circa 1950.

Danish university study examines antisemitic stereotypes in Agatha Christie’s novels

Tucker Carlson looks on during US President Donald Trump’s meeting with oil  industry executives, at the White House in Washington, Jan. 9.

Tucker Carlson claims UK had no reason to join WWII, appears to defend Hitler's invasion of Poland


The Great Inversion: When Israel became the Diaspora's shield - opinion

It is no longer the Diaspora nurturing and protecting tenuous Israel. Now it is the reverse.

An illustrative image of a Star of David.

Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival features story of Polish Jewish teenager who triggered Kristallnacht

In Proud Jewish Boy, documentarian Isri Halpern sets out to find the truth about the 17-year-old Jewish refugee who assassinated a German diplomat in Paris in 1938.

Scene from the film, Proud Jewish Boy, by Isri Halpern.

Inside the Jewish Brigade’s untold Holocaust survivor rescue operations

Shlomo Shamir’s daughter, Yael Driver, uncovers her father’s hidden rescue efforts and role in shaping Israel’s future.

Shlomo Shamir (L) with 2nd battalion commander, on the way to secure horses for post-war agricultural training.

Outgoing US Special Envoy Keith Kellogg says Ukraine-Russia peace deal is 'really close'

Those proposals, which Russia now says contain 27 points, have been split up into four different components, according to the Kremlin. The exact contents are not in the public domain.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with US Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg as they meet, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 14, 2025.

On This Day: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, thrusting US into WWII

The infamous Japanese surprise attack on the US naval base in Hawaii 80 years ago became immortalized as a "day which will live in infamy."

THE DEVASTATING surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941.

Sweden’s funding scandal empowered antisemitic networks, endangered Jews - opinion

Roughly $100 million in public funds in Sweden were diverted to institutional networks tied to radical Islamic actors, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter reported.

A demonstration in support of Palestine and Lebanon marches through Stockholm to Gustav Adolfs Torg, Sweden October 5.

How activists misused Nazi-era Dutch Jewish advocate's name to justify intimidation - opinion

By blocking a lawful public lecture, activists misused Cleveringa’s name and violated the sacred principle on which the academy is founded.

Students for Palestine and other students have occupied the Academy Building at the University of Leiden, November 26, 2025.

Israel Prize-winning director Ram Loevy passes away at 85

After the Six-Day War, Loevy helped set up the Israel Broadcasting Authority and Channel One in the late Sixties. He also taught at several film schools.

Israel-Prize winning filmmaker Ram Loevy.

Israeli Air Force hero Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky passes away at 104

Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky will be laid to rest, with a full military ceremony, on Monday at 2:30 PM at the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery in Tel Aviv.

Maj. Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky

Steinmeier becomes first German head of state to visit Guernica since 1937 Nazi bombing

The German president laid a wreath at a cemetery housing a mausoleum built in 1973 for hundreds of victims of the bombings.

Spain's King Felipe welcomes German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier during a ceremony at the Royal Palace, in Madrid, Spain, November 26, 2025.