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Topic: genocide

April 22, 2013
1:53 pm

Did you hear the one about the Genocidal tyrant?

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un continues to slaughter his population and threaten the world: What’s so funny about that?

By Shmuley Boteach

April 6, 2013
9:00 pm

Seven universal lessons from the depths of evil

What the world must learn from the Holocaust, including the duty to remember, the power of words and the crime of indifference

By Irwin Cotler

March 21, 2013
9:44 am

President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir during a television interview in January 2011. (screencapture: Youtube/AlJazeeraEnglish)

Sudanese leader Bashir to step down in 2015

Omar al-Bashir, charged by the International Criminal Court with war crimes in Darfur, says it is time for ‘fresh blood’

March 14, 2013
4:04 pm

The UN’s deadly silence on incitement

Without a vigorous international stand against fomenting genocidal hatred, ‘Never Again’ will be a distant dream

By Sara Greenberg

March 8, 2013
4:57 pm

The "Wizard of Oz" prequel opening Friday in the US is based on the ideas of L. Frank Baum, whose descendants would eventually apologize for his hateful racial views. (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Lions and tigers and genocide? Oh yes

L. Frank Baum, the creator of Dorothy and ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ — opening Friday in the US — also dabbled in murderous racism

By Matt Lebovic

February 24, 2013
1:49 am

Healing the megilla

Can the Jewish people write a more hopeful ending to the Purim tale’s narrative of a bloody triumph over genocide?

By Micha Odenheimer

January 27, 2013
8:22 am

In Egypt, the warning signs of Genocide

Murders, forced conversions to Islam, and church bombings foreshadow possible mass-atrocity crimes

By Tamar Pileggi

December 20, 2012
5:24 pm

Time to talk about sexual violence during the Holocaust

Despite evidence that rape was widespread, the topic has so been left out of the Final Solution narrative

By Rochelle Saidel

November 29, 2012
1:23 pm

Aleksander Cvetkovic in a Jerusalem court, August (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israeli accused of war crimes to be extradited to Bosnia

Aleksander Cvetkovic allegedly took part in killing thousands of Muslims in 1995 Srebrenica massacre

By Aaron Kalman

November 9, 2012
11:16 pm

Jane Fonda (second from left) appears with scholars Dan Leshem, Jessica Neuwirth (second from right) and Rochelle G. Saidel at a Los Angeles symposium on sexual violence during the Holocaust. (Photo credit: Courtesy of Kim Fox)

Jane Fonda calls for more public attention to sexual violence during the Holocaust

Oscar winner performs dramatic reading of work by Israeli author Nava Semel at a US symposium promoting study of a long overlooked topic

By Daniel Weizmann

October 25, 2012
1:05 pm

Is there a Churchill in the house?

The last debate disclosed fundamental — indeed unsettling — differences between the two presidential candidates

By Elihu D. Richter

September 24, 2012
11:07 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad answers questions in an open session in parliament in Tehran on Wednesday. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Arresting Ahmadinejad in New York for inciting genocide? It’s just not going to happen, says Israeli official

Ahead of Iranian president’s UN speech on Wednesday, Jerusalem dismisses talk of legal action, but reiterates call for walkout

By Raphael Ahren

September 19, 2012
7:50 pm

US actor Brad Pitt, pictured in Germany in June. (photo credit: AP Photo/dapd, Andreas Fischer)

Author of IBM Holocaust book says corporations are again aiding in potential genocide

Amid reports that Brad Pitt aims to film bestseller on computer giant’s aid to the Nazis, author Edwin Black warns of similar processes unfolding today with Iran’s nuclear drive

By Times of Israel staff

September 18, 2012
7:47 pm

The site of a mass grave in Cambodia (Photo credit: Courtesy: International Association of Genocide Scholars)

Genocides, unlike hurricanes, are predictable, says world expert. And Iran is following the pattern

Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch, says Iran has taken six of the eight steps on path to genocide. But it’s not late to follow Canada’s preventative lead

By Mitch Ginsburg

August 13, 2012
6:40 pm

Hundreds gather to mark massive Holocaust pogrom in Russia

Though approximately 27,000 people, mostly Jews, were executed by German soldiers near Rostov-on-Don in 1942, the Russian authorities refuse to officially acknowledge the Holocaust

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