World war ii

The BBC haunted by bias - and the Israeli connection

Senior journalist Malcolm Balen examined hundreds of hours of BBC broadcast material, TV and radio, analyzing the content in minute detail. His 20,000-word report was later classified as top secret.

BBC Broadcasting House, London, UK.
 UNITED NATIONS headquarters in New York City.

How post-war world order is collapsing under the weight of new US ambitions - opinion

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Kazbek Kokov, head of the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria, in Moscow, Russia December 16, 2025.

Putin establishes Soviet genocide memorial day, erasing Jewish victims of Nazis

Holocaust survivor and Ireland's oldest man, Josef Veselsky, dies aged 107

Holocaust survivor and Ireland's oldest man, Josef Veselsky, dies aged 107


Vienna's Jewish museum sees chilling drop in visitors amid rising antisemitism

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: "Nowadays, even in comparison with previous periods of tension in the Middle East, the decrease in the number of visitors is extreme," said Dr. Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz.

JEWISH MUSEUM Vienna is currently running an exhibition presented as ‘an intervention about the world since October 7, 2023.’ The exhibition’s title – ‘No Room for Discussion?’

Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war as city marks 80 years since atomic bomb

On the 80th anniversary of the US's atomic bombing of the western Japanese city of Nagasaki, Mayor Shiro Suzuki called on the world to abolish nuclear weapons.

Attendees pray for the victims on the day of a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city, at Nagasaki's Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, August 9, 2025.

Hiroshima warns against nuclear weapons as it marks 80 years since Atomic bomb

"To all the leaders around the world: Please visit Hiroshima and witness for yourselves the reality of the atomic bombing."

 A cloud is seen over Hiroshima made by the firestorm formed following the dropping of the Little Boy atomic bomb on the Japanese city in what is the first use of nuclear weapons in war, on August 6, 1945.

Yair Netanyahu calls Qatar 'modern-day Nazi Germany,' source of global antisemitism

“Qatar is the main force behind the unprecedented wave of antisemitism around the world, not seen since the 1930s and 1940s,” Yair Netanyahu said. 

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen in court in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2018, where he testified in a NIS 140,000 libel suit he filed last year against Abie Binyamin, a social activist.

Israel will do to Gaza 'what we did to Tokyo and Berlin,' Lindsey Graham says

“Hamas is a terrorist organization that is chartered to destroy the state of Israel," Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC. "They're religious Nazis."

 US Senator Lindsey Graham speaks outside the White House following the Oval Office meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump, in Washington, DC, US, February 28, 2025.

Why did Bard College’s orchestra performed Mendelssohn at site of Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies?

At the hour of Germany’s surrender in 1945, they performed a program by Felix Mendelssohn — whose music was banned under the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage.

Leon Botstein, Bard College president and director of its orchestra, leads a concert in Nuremberg, Germany, May 8, 2025.

Shipwreck of Japanese destroyer Teruzuki found off Guadalcanal

Discovery of the wreck was announced on July 12 by the Ocean Exploration Trust.

 Shipwreck of Japanese destroyer Teruzuki found off Guadalcanal.

France ends permanent troop presence in Senegal

"Today's transfer of Camp Geille marks a new stage in the evolution of the partnership between our two armed forces," General Pascal Ianni said.

 French President Emmanuel Macron bids farewell to the Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye after lunch with him at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, 20 June 2024

Alaska’s Nazi Creek renamed after 80 years, following advocacy by son of WWII veteran

Following a campaign by a local advocate, the creek was given a new name in the language of the local Indigenous people, in a move supported by an Anchorage synagogue.

 Dozens of bombs fall from a U.S. bomber toward Japanese-occupied Kiska Island, Aleutian Islands on August 10, 1943.

In a Polish town where locals burned Jews alive in 1941, new plaques deny complicity with Nazis

In 1941, local residents of Jedwabne killed hundreds of their Jewish neighbors, most of them in a barn where they were burned alive.

 A man reads one of the plaques newly placed near a Polish monument to the wartime Jedwabne massacre of Jews by their Polish neighbors, July 10, 2025. The plaques question the official findings and claim that "the crime was committed by a German pacification unit" instead of local Poles.