Israel’s ban on UN’s Palestinian aid agency has come into effect. Here’s what that looks like
Israel has formally banned the main United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its territory ...
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Peace Costs: America’s Weapons Upgrade
With China, Russia, and Islamists scratching at the door, peace costs money. America is upgrading its needed nuclear arsenal, ...
Distortion more dangerous than denial, warns departing Holocaust alliance chief
Kathrin Meyer, departing cretary-general of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, said she considers Holocaust ...
What Will Israel’s Ban of a U.N. Aid Agency Mean for Palestinians?
Legislation that goes into effect on Thursday bars UNRWA from operating in the country. That will affect aid delivery to Gaza and beyond.
‘We rely on God, then on UNRWA’: Palestinians fear drastic effects as Israeli ban on UN agency comes into force
Iman Helles, a displaced mother sheltering in a facility run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, fears that ...
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Bielski Partisans: These WWII Jewish Resistance Embodied ‘Defiance’
The Bielski Partisans waged plenty of combat action against the Nazi scourge, much to the chagrin of the oppressors. January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and to commemorate that ...
Japan to halt funding for a UN women's rights panel over call to end male-only imperial succession
Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality perspecti ...
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World War II Museum explores Black experiences in the fight for freedom, abroad and at home
A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...
For children: Who was Hansa Mehta, tireless feminist and ‘founding mother of the Indian republic’?
In the Constituent Assembly session on 14 August 1947, after Nehru’s historic “tryst with destiny” speech at the stroke of ...
The Doomsday Clock reveals how close humanity may be to total annihilation
Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to ...
Auschwitz survivors and world leaders mark 80 years since Nazi death camp's liberation
The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the ...
Israeli President Herzog highlights antisemitism in UN speech as new report shows shocking trend
Israel's President Isaac Herzog addressed the U.N. on Monday at its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day event. His speech comes as a new report shows a worrying rise in antisemitic attitudes globally.