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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a historian who studies the history of the Jews in modern times, I have been concerned at how easily and inaccurately comparisons have recently been drawn between the Nazi Holocaust and the State ...

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 ...

A bipartisan duo of congressmen representing both sides of the Hudson joined forces Wednesday to slam mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani for opposing a Holocaust remembrance group’s definition of ...