Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

Australia: Harassment of anti-Zionist Jews after Bondi Beach terror attack

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 02:08:23 GMT

“By invoking Jewish safety to shield imperial and corporate interests, the government fuels resentment against Jews while enabling future war crimes.”–Michelle Berkon

UAW local opposes US screening of director Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:46:50 GMT

Shamefully, Polanski’s important film has been banned from US movie theaters for six years, the product of the pressure of a sordid coalition of far-right forces and pseudo-left feminists.

Pro-Zionist Board of Deputies of British Jews calls for workplace “antisemitism” training

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:29:10 GMT

The report is yet another back-door attempt to outlaw all expression of opposition to Israel’s criminal war of annihilation against the Palestinians, under the guise of “equality and diversity”.

The Marxist movement and the fight against antisemitism and Zionism

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:15:16 GMT

Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.

Detroit memorial for René Lichtman, Holocaust survivor and ardent opponent of Israeli genocide in Gaza

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 03:53:46 GMT

The event brought together a cross-section of René’s comrades, friends and family, young and old, including from Jewish and Arabic backgrounds.

80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz: Imperialist barbarism returns

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 04:10:40 GMT

Eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, genocide, the persecution of millions of people because of their origin, war and even the possible use of nuclear weapons are once again considered “normal.”

Labour’s Wes Streeting witch-hunts UK healthcare workers who oppose Gaza genocide

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:03:27 GMT

The health secretary declared that regulators have the power, “to set conditions that a healthcare professional must work under, suspend them, or strike them entirely from the medical register."

Undercover: Exposing the Far Right uncovers the race science conspiracy

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:26:38 GMT

Channel 4’s programme is based on an investigation conducted by Hope Not Hate. It is an important documentary, revealing the international and financial connections of the global fascist movement.

An interview with Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo, co-directors of Where Olive Trees Weep, filmed on the occupied West Bank: “You cannot imagine the extent of the injustice”

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 04:18:14 GMT

The documentary’s objectivity lies in the fact that it presents historical and social truth.

80 years since the liberation of Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp: From Hitler’s war in the East to the Holocaust

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 01:53:45 GMT

The history of the Majdanek camp reveals the links between Nazi Germany’s war of aggression against the Soviet Union and the Holocaust, and the extermination of the Jewish population, which primarily affected Poland and Eastern Europe.

The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Zola, Dreyfus and the struggle against antisemitism

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 23:32:21 GMT

Zola was an eloquent opponent of obscurantism and reaction, and played a major role in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus and the struggle against antisemitism.

Holocaust survivor denounces Zionist slander of protests against genocide in Gaza

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:11:43 GMT

An upcoming rally in Michigan against the genocide in Gaza, organized by Holocaust survivor Rene Lichtman, has been slandered as “antisemitic” by prominent Zionists on X/Twitter.

Holocaust survivor leads Michigan vigil against US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 03:57:24 GMT

Rene Lichtman, an 86-year-old Holocaust child survivor, led the vigil outside of the Zekelman Holocaust Museum.

Report on Alderney Channel Islands Nazi labour camps confirms perpetrators not tried because of “a succession of cover-ups”

Sun, 23 Jun 2024 18:15:29 GMT

The Alderney Expert Review Panel places the total death toll between 641 and 1,027 victims, with a likely upper limit of 1,134.

Taiwan, the “Axis of Genocide” and Holocaust amnesia

Tue, 21 May 2024 18:48:51 GMT

To legitimize their support for the Gaza genocide, Taiwan’s rulers are seeking to whitewash today’s German establishment and the complicity of Zionist organizations, along with the “democratic” imperialist powers, especially the United States and Britain, in the Holocaust.

Canadian imperialism and the Gaza genocide: The contrived, right-wing furor over a cartoon depicting Netanyahu as a vampire

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:26:02 GMT

The moral outrage over the La Presse cartoon has nothing to do with opposition to antisemitism. Rather, it serves to legitimize Israel's genocidal policies, intimidate public opinion and sow confusion among workers and young people.

Harvard Professor Noah Feldman denounces opposition to the Gaza genocide as the “New antisemitism”

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 06:46:14 GMT

Time Magazine has chosen as its cover story Professor Noah Feldman's maliciously dishonest and morally bankrupt defense of Israel’s savage war against the population of Gaza.

UK legal ruling finds Professor David Miller was discriminated against and sacked for anti-Zionist beliefs

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:27:07 GMT

The ruling is the first successful challenge to the manufactured allegations of antisemitism used to hound opponents of the state of Israel from their employment. It is a body blow to the global campaign of ruling elites everywhere—in collaboration with the Zionist regime in Jerusalem—to redefine anti-Zionism as antisemitism.

Over 200 film workers protest participation of fascist AfD at Berlin film festival

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 01:48:43 GMT

By inviting the AfD, the Berlin Senate and the Green Party-led Culture Ministry are repudiating the Berlinale’s 2019 pledge to deny a “platform for racist-nationalist propaganda.”

Nazi Town USA: US public television examines the German-American Bund in the 1930s

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 03:52:41 GMT

The real relationship of forces, above all the role of the working class, is missing from this account.

London’s “National March Against Antisemitism” aimed at legitimising Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 19:50:35 GMT

The march was held in support of the grotesque political lie that opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza is equivalent to anti-Jewish hatred.

Elon Musk promotes fascist “Great Replacement Theory” on X/Twitter

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:04:04 GMT

Musk’s open promotion of the antisemitic conspiracy theory has provoked a crisis at X/Twitter, with several major advertisers pausing spending on the social media platform.

No to anti-Semitism! For the unity of the Russian, Palestinian, and Israeli working class!

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:34:41 GMT

The antisemitic riot in Dagestan is a reactionary result of Israel’s imperialist-backed genocide of the Palestinian people.

Australian Nazis treated with kid gloves, pro-Palestine protesters vilified and threatened

Sat, 28 Oct 2023 03:32:27 GMT

Amid the relentless lies branding pro-Palestinian protesters as anti-Semites, a Melbourne judge addressed two Nazi leaders as “gentlemen” and wished them “good luck with the future.”

British government seeks to outlaw pro-Palestinian protests

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 21:37:14 GMT

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman are utilising Israel’s war on Gaza and the Palestinians to launch the gravest attack on free speech and the right to protest in post-war British history.

Australian establishment hysterically denounces pro-Palestinian protests

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:46:05 GMT

The attacks on the demonstrations are without recent precedent, and carry with them the unmistakable whiff of a police state.

The Polish far-right’s vicious campaign against Agnieszka Holland's film The Green Border

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 02:00:28 GMT

The campaign against the film is not restricted to the far-right Polish ruling party. Tomasz Siemoniak, defence minister under Donald Tusk (Civic Platform, PO) until 2015, also mocked the film in a TV interview, comparing its veracity to Star Wars.

Pro-Zionist film smears Roger Waters as an “antisemite”

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 04:47:29 GMT

Roger Waters responded on Friday to the new slanderous film defaming him as an antisemite. Waters defended his support of Palestinian rights against Zionist violence and oppression by the state of Israel.

Roger Waters banned from participating on campus at UPenn Palestinian literature event

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 05:05:48 GMT

The University of Pennsylvania informed acclaimed rock music artist and activist Roger Waters that he would not be permitted to participate in-person on a panel scheduled Friday evening at the Palestine Writes festival hosted by the university.

Elon Musk, world’s richest promoter of antisemitism

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:20:32 GMT

For over two weeks, the world’s richest fascist has repeated some of the oldest and most vile antisemitic conspiracy tropes in repeated attacks against Jewish people and the Anti-Defamation League on Twitter/X.

Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 19:12:23 GMT

The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”

An attack on Holocaust research: The takeover of the History Chair at the Institute for East European Studies at Berlin’s Free University

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 03:02:07 GMT

With the installation of Robert Kindler, a favourite of right-wing-radical professor Jörg Baberowski, a fundamental reorientation of the Institute for East European Studies is in train, away from studying the crimes of the Nazi regime and Polish-Jewish history.

Jury gives fascist Pittsburgh synagogue shooter the death penalty

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 03:56:22 GMT

Robert Bowers, 50, was sentenced to death by a federal jury in Pittsburgh on Wednesday after his conviction on numerous capital charges stemming from his mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, which killed 11 and injured six in the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. boosted by fascistic Trump Republicans at hearing on alleged “censorship”

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 01:39:19 GMT

Since being exposed for spreading anti-Semitic and anti-Chinese libels, Kennedy has appeared at a Republican-led House hearing and on Fox News to portray both himself and Trump as victims of government witch-hunting.

Leading House Democrat retracts and apologizes for criticism of Israel

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:06:25 GMT

Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, was in headlong retreat after her truthful remark that Israel is a racist state came under fire.

Antisemitism and anti-Chinese racism: The case of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 04:39:25 GMT

Kennedy is not just a lunatic bigot. Powerful sections of the US ruling elite are promoting the Wuhan lab lie, claiming China deliberately created the COVID virus, and whitewashing the neo-Nazi forces in the Ukraine war.

UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer slanders Roger Waters, demands censorship

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:39:46 GMT

Waters’ steadfast criticism of NATO’s war in Ukraine, defence of the Palestinians from Israeli state repression and support for the imprisoned anti-war journalist Julian Assange has earned him the ire of imperialist governments everywhere.

Roger Waters faces attacks by Zionists, Labour and Tory politicians as tour hits UK

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 17:59:15 GMT

For the ruling class, Waters’ “crimes” are that he has opposed the US-NATO-instigated war against Russia in Ukraine and vocally supported the Palestinian people in the face of criminal attacks on them by Israel.

75 years since Israel’s foundation: The Nakba and the struggle for Jewish-Arab unity

Fri, 12 May 2023 22:12:20 GMT

The Zionist utopia of a national state in which the Jews of the world could find sanctuary has led instead to a headlong descent into police state forms of rule, the emergence of fascism, the eruption of civil war and war with the Palestinians and Israel’s Arab neighbours.

Corbyn ally Diane Abbott suspended as Labour MP: The collapse of the Corbynite “left”

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:00:11 GMT

To even speak any longer of the Socialist Campaign Group as an entity, let alone a “Corbynite left”, becomes ever more tenuous.

80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 03:24:02 GMT

Workers, who are today confronted with the unfolding maelstrom of a new imperialist redivision of the world, the buildup of fascist forces, social counterrevolution and an ongoing pandemic and climate catastrophe, have a tremendous amount to learn from the heroic but also tragic experience of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Holocaust.

This week in history: April 17-23

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:57:49 GMT

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.

The mass protests in Israel and the “left-anti-Semitism” witch-hunt

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:59:04 GMT

The political lie of the unchallenged universal legitimacy of the state of Israel has suffered a devastating exposure with the mass protest movement of Jewish Israelis against the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Anti-Defamation League reports “all-time high” white supremacist propaganda incidents in United States in 2022

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 02:47:49 GMT

Emboldened by the Republican Party and abetted by sympathetic local and federal police agencies, Nazis, Proud Boys and other fascists continue to harass, threaten, and in some cases, carry out violent attacks against LGBTQ, Jews and other minorities and leftists on a near daily basis.

Jacob the Liar (1974)—the original East German version

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 01:46:20 GMT

The film’s drama takes place in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1944. Jacob Heym learns by chance that the Soviet army is not far away.

Fascists stage provocation at Broadway show Parade about 1915 lynching of Leo Frank

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:38:50 GMT

A group of neo-Nazis protested at a preview of Parade in New York City last week, a musical about the trial and 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish manager of a factory in Atlanta.

In Leopoldstadt, playwright Tom Stoppard looks to his past and the fate of Europe’s Jews

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 02:44:50 GMT

Stoppard’s latest play benefits from some of his customary charm, but also suffers from his typical limitations.

Republicans remove Ilhan Omar from House Foreign Affairs Committee, Democrats capitulate

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 04:09:27 GMT

House Speaker McCarthy has allotted an outsized number of slots on key committees to members of the fascistic House Freedom Caucus who held up his election for Speaker for 15 ballots, as well as other far-right lawmakers who supported his bid for the speakership.

Auschwitz commemoration dominated by war propaganda, right-wing historical falsification

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 05:37:28 GMT

The unprecedented promotion of war propaganda and the deliberate minimization of the crimes of Nazism at the Auschwitz commemoration are inseparable from the renewed explosion of imperialist militarism now underway in Europe.

The Fabelmans: Steven Spielberg’s family drama

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 02:05:11 GMT

The film is a highly personal account of the postwar years in America that excludes nearly everything except the immediate family circumstances.