Whoopi Goldberg’s Loudest Critics are the Real Racists

Whoopi Goldberg’s comments on the Holocaust were misguided and clumsy. But those exploiting the row are the ones with the ugly motives, namely the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) & corporate media outlets that vilified Amnesty International’s report on Israeli apartheid.

Jonathan Cook
By Jonathan Cook

OPINION – Whoopi Goldberg is not someone I would normally rush to defend. Our politics are too far apart on too many issues. And many will doubtless take delight in the fact that the queen of cancel culture has just found herself canceled. But the pile-on against Goldberg for expressing a non-conventional view about the Holocaust needs

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Israel’s Auschwitz Commemoration: A Kidnapping of Jewish history

Miko Peled reflects on the Israeli government’s politicization of Jewish suffering during the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled
Israel Auschwitz Feature photo

As world leaders gathered in Jerusalem to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, Zochrot, an Israeli NGO that works to raise awareness among Israeli Jews of the injustices faced by Palestinians, posted a comment on their Facebook page. The post, written in Hebrew, reminded visiting world leaders that the

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Liz Cheney and Right-Wing Outrage Machine Lie About Rashida Tlaib’s Comments

The Corporate Media — and Trump — Do the Rest

Eoin Higgins
By Eoin Higgins
Rashida Tlaib

A measured and nuanced discussion of the Holocaust, Israel, and Palestinians was intentionally mischaracterized by right-wing media and politicians Sunday, leading to corporate media and the president amplifying dishonest attacks on one of the nation's only two Muslim Congresswomen. The controversy comes from remarks made by Rep. Rashida Tlaib

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In Palestine, the Victim Must Apologize to the Killers

“A nation that hasn’t stopped occupying, destroying and killing, and has never considered apologizing for anything – anything – gets its victims to apologize for one measly sentence by their leader.”

Helmi Al Asmar
By Helmi Al Asmar
Relatives of a Palestinian Iman who was shot and killed Friday by Israeli troops during the ongoing protest along the Gaza Strip border with Israel, carry his body to the family house during his funeral in Gaza City, April 14, 2018. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Gideon Levy has written in Haaretz about the “absurd” situation whereby, in his words: “The leader of the Palestinian people is forced to apologize to the Jewish people” for saying something “anti-Semitic” about the Holocaust. According to Levy, “The one who was robbed apologizes to the robbers, the victim apologizes to the rapist, the dead to the

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Egyptian-Born Holocaust Scholar Interrogated, Detained At Houston Airport For 10 Hours

“My situation was nothing compared to some of the people I saw who couldn’t be defended as I was,” Rousso said on Twitter.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
The French historian, Henry Rousso, seen here in 2011. (Photo: BALTEL/SIPA)

(REPORT) --- Henry Rousso, a French historian and a prominent scholar on the Holocaust, said he was detained for more than 10 hours by federal border agents at a Houston airport and was almost deported for being an "illegal" immigrant before his lawyers and an official at the school he was visiting intervened on his behalf. “I have been

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The Forgotten 5 Million Non-Jewish Victims Of The Holocaust

Up to 1.5 million Roma Gypsies were rounded up and killed by the Nazis, a genocide known as the “Porajmos” in their language.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
An elderly man passes by pictures showing aspects of Romanian Roma community life, and Roma personalities in the world, among them Charlie Chaplin, during an event at the Holocaust Memorial in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Scores of Romanian Gypsies perished during WWII deportations in the Dniestr region 65 years ago.

AUSTIN, Texas --- According to most figures, about 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis and their supporters in the Holocaust, one of the most disturbing examples of genocide in human history. But the Nazis took around 11 million lives, leaving another 5 million dead that are all too often overlooked or forgotten when in discussions of

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