World War II

January 8, 2024

BBC North West amends report with significant historical omission

A report which appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘Lancashire’ page on January 4th caused some...

June 3, 2013

‘Comment is Free’ contributor: Is the “Global war on Terrorism” all about Israel?

For well over a decade now the U.S. has been “a nation at war”, explains Andrew Bacevic...

April 8, 2013

Letter to Iain Banks on the eve of Yom HaShoah

The following was written by Bataween, and originally published on April 7 at ‘Point of No Ret...

January 4, 2013

The Czech Persuasion: Against grandiose ideas & miraculous solutions in the Mid-East

H/T Evelyn Gordon Following the annexation of Austria into the Third Reich in March 1938, Hitle...

July 1, 2012

The Guardian: changing history.

There are now two Guardian obituaries of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir online. The la...

April 19, 2012

Harriet Sherwood cynically exploits a Holocaust survivor on Yom HaShoah to criticize Israel

Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s day of commemoration for the six mi...

April 8, 2012

What must be said: A former Nazi named Gunter Grass and what Germany owes the Jews

I’ve never believed that children inherit the sins of their ancestors. In the American context...

July 31, 2011

Israel and Greece: A Tale of Two Nation-States

This is cross posted by Diana Muir Appelbaum at Jewish Ideas Daily What made Greece, long a pro-Ar...

February 22, 2011

Review of Peter Kosminsky’s “The Promise”

The following commentary on Peter Kosminsky’s documentary series, The Promise, was provided by...

September 25, 2010

Churchill’s true colors and the world’s enraged response to Succot

In this week’s episode of the Tribal Update, the television-on-internet satire show produced w...