Words sometimes lose their meaning over time. This happened to the word “disinterested.” It originally meant “to be objective, not influenced by personal interest,” as in the sentence: The judge ...

The definition hardly refers to inequality or structural discrimination—rather, it’s a thinly veiled tool for prohibiting criticism of any sort about Israel. A Palestinian schoolgirl walks past the ...

Historians have finally put a name to the Nazi soldier in one of the Holocaust's most haunting photos. Known as "The Last Jew ...

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism has been the global standard for years, but pro-Palestinian groups are moving to chip away at what constitutes hate speech ...

Call for papers, postgraduate and early career researcher symposium The Holocaust Research Institute April 24, 2026 The Holocaust across the Mediterranean As historian Michael Marrus’s famous ...

Ben Lesser and his cousin were jammed into a cattle car with 80 other Jewish prisoners to be transported to the Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany. Loaves of bread were thrown into the car ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint news conference at the White House on Feb. 15. Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was his impression ...

For years, Marianne Hirsch, a prominent genocide scholar at Columbia University, has used Hannah Arendt’s book about the trial of a Nazi war criminal, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality ...