World war ii

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?’
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.

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

 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.

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

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.

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


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.

False equivalency of Gaza and Dresden: One was revenge, the other self-defense - opinion

Dresden was revenge against a defeated enemy. Gaza is self-defense against an enemy that still openly calls for Israel’s annihilation.

 Allied forces are seen bombing the German city of Dresden during World War II.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A humanist composer who opposed the Nazis, helped Jews

So, next time you hear the rapt, silken poetry of The Lark Ascending, give a thought not only to Vaughan Williams the composer, but to the humanist who opposed the Nazis.

  A portrait of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, c. 1920.

From 1945 to 2025: Netanyahu channels Churchill as he seeks to turn war into legacy - opinion

Both men understood that in politics, being right isn’t enough – you must also be right at the right moment, with the right crisis, and the right democratic mandate.

  PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu, draped in a blue and white prayer shawl, stands at the Western Wall on June 22, 2025.

An emotional exploration in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan offers modern transportation, including domestic flights, modern, high-speed trains, and regular trains from the Soviet days.

 Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan

For Israelis under Iranian barrage, deadly nights alternate with days brimming with life

Ever resilient, Israelis are finding a new routine during a national emergency after war breaks out in the region.

 Patrons of a cafe whose windows were shattered by a nearby missile impact sit next to piles of broken glass, Tel Aviv, June 16, 2025.