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French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
September 20, 2017, 10:21 pm
Macron says Rohingya crisis in Myanmar is ‘genocide’
French president does not mince words in describing carnage that has caused 420,000 members of Muslim minority to flee for safety in Bangladesh
By AFP
Then US president Barack Obama embraces Elie Wiesel before delivering a speech about the Holocaust and its meaning at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, April 23, 2012. (Courtesy USHMM/JTA)
September 7, 2017, 12:19 am
US Holocaust museum pulls study on Obama inaction in Syria
Official memorial rethinking research after being criticized for saying ex-president was correct in doing little to prevent slaughter
By JTA
Fighters from the Islamic State group marching in Raqqa, Syria, Jan. 14, 2014. (Militant photo via AP, File)
August 16, 2017, 12:37 am
US decries Islamic State ‘genocide’ of Christians, others
Tillerson says terror group carrying out 'crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing' in Iraq and Syria
By Matthew Lee
Galina Kargher, the director of the International Center for Training and Professional Development at the Jewish Community Center in Moldova showing the materials they developed for teaching about the Holocaust in Moldova. To the right, a current textbook used in Moldovan schools. (Julie Masis/Times of Israel)
August 4, 2017, 2:16 am
Holocaust education in Moldova is about to get (slightly) better
While the world's worst genocide currently occupies a page and a half in textbooks, a new initiative would significantly expand the coverage
By Julie Masis
Nadia Murad, 24, a Yazidi woman who escaped Islamic State captivity, tours Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on July 24, 2017 (Mickey Noam-Alon/IsraAID)
July 25, 2017, 9:26 pm
At Yad Vashem, Yazidi activists seek to learn how to record their genocide
With 3,000 Yazidi women still in IS captivity and hundreds of thousands displaced, survivors tour Holocaust memorial with sights set on their own commemoration
By Marissa Newman
Zionist Union MK Ksenia Svetlova (L) with Yazidi survivor of the Islamic State Nadia Murad in the Knesset, on July 24, 2017. (courtesy)
July 24, 2017, 11:10 pm
Yazidi survivor of Islamic State in Knesset: Recognize our genocide
Opposition MK to submit legislation for official recognition of IS atrocities this November, says Foreign Ministry not opposed
By Marissa Newman
Namibian schoolgirls walk by a memorial in tribute to the victims of the alleged genocide committed by German forces against Herero and Nama people in 1904, on June 20, 2017 in Windhoek, Namibia. (AFP Photo/Gianluigi Guercia)
July 22, 2017, 9:26 am
Namibia genocide victims battle for compensation
Descendants of tribes killed in alleged German genocide during pre-Nazi era seek reparations similar to those given to Israel
By Philippe ALFROY
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame (center) shakes hands with President Reuven Rivlin (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
July 10, 2017, 4:32 pm
Rwanda’s Kagame visiting as Israel looks to boost Africa ties
2-day trip to focus on investment, but also Israel's bid to counter anti-Israel bias at UN and the shared experience overcoming genocide
By Sue Surkes
The so-called 'People's Court' of Nazi Germany, set up outside of normal constitutional frameworks, 1944 (Public domain)
June 23, 2017, 10:02 pm
Boston event commends Nazi-era citizens’ acts of virtue, even as their judges abetted genocide
Tied to a US Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit on how courts aided Nazi Germany, legal experts discuss the role of tribunals in protecting minorities
By Matt Lebovic
Elie Wiesel arrives for a roundtable discussion on the Iran nuclear deal on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 2, 2015. (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA)
June 23, 2017, 8:03 pm
US congressional bill named for Elie Wiesel aims to stop genocides
Bipartisan measure would establish interagency task force and enable training for officers to detect early signs of atrocities
By JTA
French President Emmanuel Macron (C) walks with children during a ceremony to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Stephane Mahe)
June 10, 2017, 7:04 pm
At WWII memorial, Macron urges kids to fight against atrocities
French president commemorates deadliest Nazi massacre, notes similar horrors have continued in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and Syria
By AP
In this Monday, April 13, 2015 file photo, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir prepares to cast his ballot for the country's presidential and legislative elections in Khartoum, Sudan. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)
May 17, 2017, 6:17 pm
Sudan leader Bashir, indicted for genocide, to attend summit with Trump
Sudanese FM says country hopes for 'normalization' of ties with US but unsure if handshake between leaders will occur
By AFP
A drug deal is photographed in Berlin, 1924 (Public Domain/German Federal Archive)
May 10, 2017, 8:26 pm
Did stimulants fuel Nazi Germany’s war of annihilation?
A probe into drug and alcohol use during Nazi Germany's 'blitzkrieg' assault on Europe opens a Pandora's box of coverups and accusations
By Matt Lebovic
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova addresses the World Jewish Congress' 15th Plenary Assembly in New York on April 24, 2017. (Shahar Azran)
April 27, 2017, 1:53 am
UNESCO‘s first Holocaust guide meant to advance global study of mass atrocities
UN cultural organization was founded in the wake of Nazi crimes in WWII, director Irina Bokova tells Jewish group
By Sue Surkes and TOI staff
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova addresses the World Jewish Congress' 15th Plenary Assembly in New York on April 24, 2017. (Shahar Azran)
April 25, 2017, 12:01 am
UNESCO head calls Temple Mount ‘holiest place in Judaism’
In address to World Jewish Congress, Irina Bokova defends links of all three monotheistic religions to Jerusalem
By TOI staff
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