Holocaust

Zionism blends Jewish trauma with settler-colonial power, creating a narcissistic identity that justifies supremacy and erases Palestinian existence.

The Holocaust should serve as a universal warning against genocide. Instead it is invoked to sanitise Israel’s persecution of Palestinians

Time for a new treaty to deal with crimes against humanity? Here’s what you need to know

Fatal attractions are blind and delusional and thus destructive. The consequences may be a backlash against Biden, the US losing its little moral authority is has, an end to any…

South African-born Jewish artist Candice Breitz has had her exhibition in a German museum scrapped

Our grief for people we have not personally known is informed by the narratives and stories we are exposed to – but these stories are not equally told

Raping women and beheading children is not a struggle for human rights or freedom, it is a massacre

One cannot choose one’s race or nationality, but one can choose one’s political views and live by those choices

The fact that mass killings should still take place in our modern world shows that we need to do more to oppose it

As countries in the Global North push to escalate the war in Ukraine, the Global South has overwhelmingly pushed for a perspective of dialogue and peace

Germany demonstrated a poor response to historical redress when it offered Namibia €1.1-billion as a ‘gesture of reconciliation’

An installation and a documentary about the notorious residential school system amplify calls to define such deaths worldwide as genocide

Groups slam UCT professor’s Hitler comment without an understanding of the lecture’s purpose

On 27 January, the world remembers the victims of the Holocaust, but it is also worth remembering the victims of Germany’s other, earlier genocide in Namibia. A rare book,…

Attempts to discredit election outcomes can be dangerous and the United States would do well to heed the warnings from history