ON JUNE 1–2, 1941, as British forces momentarily withdrew from Baghdad, a mob unleashed a systematic slaughter of the city's ancient Jewish community. Nearly 180 Jews were killed, hundreds more wounded, and thousands of homes and businesses were looted and destroyed. The Farhud — Arabic for "viol...

The fires have been burning for months. Migrants are beaten in the streets, schoolchildren riot against foreign classmates, and a charismatic activist whips crowds into a frenzy with warnings that foreigners will "say they discovered us." Yet for mainstream press, South Africa's anti-immigrant cr...

THIS MONTH'S Nakba Day commemorations — marking 78 years since the displacement of Palestinians during Israel's 1948 War of Independence — were supposed to be occasions for solemn remembrance. Instead, they produced two embarrassing episodes that, taken together, illustrate something more signifi...

SOME TIME AGO I arrived late at a panel discussion on Israel and Palestine hosted by one Terry Crawford-Brown. Readers my remember the Irish banker and former spokesperson for the Anglican Church, whose credibility was left in tatters after he attempted to pin the blame for Chris Hani's assassina...

UNLIKE the majority faith group who are Christians, most Jews experience what I refer to as baseline Anti-Semitism, hostility towards Jewish identity that is so prevalent it is background noise or weather. 7/10 merely emboldened what was already latent within our supposedly tolerant, free societi...