Timothy Snyder’s Lies

In Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands, Hitler and Stalin are one and the same. And the partisans — Jewish fighters included — only encouraged German crimes.

Labour’s Antisemitism Affair

The controversies of the last week show the need to be vigilant against antisemitism while remaining steadfast in defense of Palestinian rights.

How Postwar West Germany Used Support for Israel to Whitewash Its Image

In 1952, West Germany paid reparations to Israel — not as compensation to Holocaust survivors, but in the form of supplies to the Israeli state. Coming at the same time as denazification reached its end, the move had little to do with moral atonement, and everything to do with whitewashing West Germany's international image.

The Ideals of the Jewish Labor Bund Have Outlived Nazi Genocide

In tsarist Russia and interwar Poland, the Jewish Bund developed a socialist alternative to Zionism while fighting against antisemitic oppression. The neglected international history of their movement is a vital resource for our own time.

The West’s Love for Israel Erases the Middle East’s Real History

Zionism emerged in response to 19th-century European antisemitism — but its aims in Palestine drew upon Western colonial ideologies. To present the current conflict as a timeless feud denies both European responsibility and Palestine’s multiethnic history.

Arno Mayer Has Died. He Leaves Us an Unorthodox Marxism.

Historian Arno Mayer, who died this month at age 97, infused his work with a Marxism animated by attention to ideology, passion, and the open-endedness of history.

Britain Helped Franco Destroy Spanish Democracy

Eighty-five years ago today, Francisco Franco declared victory in the Spanish Civil War. In an interview, historian Paul Preston tells Jacobin about the decisive role that Franco’s sympathizers in the British government played in crushing Spanish democracy.

How Postwar Germany Fell in Love With Israel

As Israeli tanks rolled into the Sinai in the 1967 war, West Germany saw itself marching alongside them. Even former Nazis could identify with Israeli expansionism — and used this support to absolve their own pasts.

Zionism’s History Is Also a History of Jewish Anti-Zionism

Defenders of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza have attempted to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism. But since its beginning, different forms of Zionist ideology have competed with varied anti-Zionisms for Jewish allegiance.

Life in the Century’s Midnight

On International Holocaust Memorial Day we should remember the resistance that organized itself in Nazi death camps.

The Dangers of Detoxification

The FN’s new image doesn’t mean the far-right party had a change of heart — it means the mainstream has accepted its program.

Israel’s Leaders Are Trying to Cancel the Debate Because They Know They’re Losing

Israel and its supporters are ramping up efforts to outlaw solidarity with Palestinians in the name of combating antisemitism. But these authoritarian maneuvers can’t hide the fact that Israel is losing the battle for public opinion over its denial of Palestinian rights.

The Antisemitic Face of Israel’s Evangelical Allies

Evangelical Zionists want Jews to move to Palestine to set the stage for the divine requital of Armageddon. This hasn’t stopped Israel from sealing alliances with even nakedly antisemitic evangelicals, so long as they support the dispossession of Palestinians.

Handsomely Funded to Ignore Genocide

Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation, meant to promote a culture of democratic debate. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy.

Germany’s Anti-Palestinian Stance Is Rooted in Anti-Communism

German police shut down a Palestine solidarity conference last week, the latest in a long line of repressive moves. The anti-Palestinian witch hunt is rooted in a political culture that stigmatizes left-wing radicalism while indulging the far right.

What You Should Read

Fascism’s Face-Lift

Anti-communist campaigns in Eastern Europe aren’t about building a more democratic society — they’re about rehabilitating the far right.

Richard Pipes, Prosecutor of the Russian Revolution

Relentless anticommunism defined the late Richard Pipes as more propagandist than historian.

Call It by Its Name

We have to name the crimes against the Rohingyas, Palestinians, and Kashmiris what they are: genocide, apartheid, and colonialism.

Franco’s Forgotten Crimes

Spaniards have flocked to an exhibition emphasizing the need to remember Nazi Germany’s crimes. Yet the Right insists that highlighting Franco’s own atrocities will only "open old wounds."