Remembering Holocaust: the first British shots of WW II

The subject of the Holocaust is, frankly, too big for me to handle. There are people who made it their life study, there still are some surv...

Germany attacks Poland - again. This time it's on moral grounds.

The Algemeiner has an article on a new German series on World War II. This one's different, though. It's about Poland during that p...

Good news from Germany(!?), bad news from elsewhere (so, what's new??)

"Germany has an “everlasting responsibility for the crimes of National Socialism, for the victims of World War II and, above all, for t...

The earlier Warsaw Ghetto uprising

Earlier, that is, than the one you're thinking of. I came across this item via normblog , the blog of Norman Geras, retired Professor of...

Tolkien is one of the Good Guys, and an anti-Nazi to boot!

This is for Jewish and philo-semitic lovers of Tolkien and all things Middle Earth. It's okay to be a fan, because Tolkien was not only ...

Memories

From a friend's e-mail: My grandfather said that when he fled Europe in 1935, there were graffiti on the walls saying: Jews, go to Pales...

So, what do we mean by proportional? Not what the anti-Zionists mean, for sure.

There's this website that's new to me, courtesy of the Elder of Ziyon , and he has the link to the site. There you will find this h...

Etgar Keret's new house - in Warsaw

How's this for a "...but we're still here story"? Etgar Keret has had a house built for him in Warsaw, coincidentally very...

What price freedom?

In this post I raise what I consider to be a real problem for those of us who are lovers of freedom: how far do we restrict other people...

Brad Pitt, IBM, and the Holocaust

Who could possibly resist a title like that? Even if one isn't a film buff or even a film-goer. Anyway, The Tablet tells us that Pitt h...

Jews and (US) Slavery

If you're anything like me (and this has little, if anything, to do with personal politics), you will probably have assumed that most US...