Britain’s Refugee Policy Is a Fantasy of Fear
In December 1938, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet told German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop of a French plan to deport 10,000 Jews to Madagascar, a French colony. After the…
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Semantics Matter: Why I Spell Antisemitism Without The Hyphen
In April 2015, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance issued a memorandum to Microsoft addressing the spelling of ‘antisemitism’, often rendered as anti-Semitism in its auto-correct feature. This article outlines why…
The Similarities In Far-Right Islamophobia And Anti-Semitism
In the modern radical right, there are several parallels between their Islamophobic and anti-Semitic narratives. Anti-Semitism in the West has a long and awful history stretching back centuries. However, although…
When Emotion Trumps Dispassionate Politics
The radical populist right’s appeal to emotions has been one of the main reasons for its staying power over the span of more than four decades. The triumph of Nazism…
David Sierakowiak’s Lodz Ghetto Diary
In the latest of a series looking at eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust, CARR Senior Fellow, Mr Chris Webb presents David Sierakowiak’s account of the Lodz Ghetto, describing the horrific…
Antisemitism in Schools
*This was given as Keynote Speech at the 2nd Meeting of the Working Group on the Implementation of the Council Declaration on the Fight against Antisemitism European Commission to the…
Anti-Semitism Continues to Be a Steady Feature Among Germany’s Radicals
For decades, anti-Semitism has been a steady ideological feature of radical-right violence and terrorism in Germany. The suspect in the terrorist attack on a synagogue in the German city of Halle in…
Holocaust Historian: Trump Needs To Stop Speaking Like A 20th Century Fascist
Trump refers to Hispanic migrants as if they are an infectious disease while he detains them in inhumane detention centers. We must learn from history. In an article published in 2007, Andreas…
The Eyewitness Account of Tadeusz Pankiewicz and the Krakow Ghetto – June 1942
On June 4, 1942, it was the Jews of Krakow who faced the perils and uncertainties of a round-up. A Polish Catholic, Tadeusz Pankiewicz, witnessed the round-up from the window…
Despite Recent Attacks, Anti-Semitism in the US Remains Low
How should we reconcile the historically low level of Americans’ negative feelings about Jews with the recent surge in attacks on Jews? The April 27 attack on the Chabad synagogue…