Global fury builds over Trumpโ€™s plan to turn Gaza into the Middle East โ€˜Rivieraโ€™

U.S. president faces outrage from Arab countries and key European capitals over his โ€œdangerousโ€ proposal that Palestinians should be removed from the coastal enclave.ย 

Elon Muskโ€™s Tesla showroom defaced with swastikas in the Netherlands

Tech billionaire continues to attract vitriol after his controversial salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration party.

German election: AfDโ€™s Weidel doubles down on Holocaust comments

โ€œI find it quite disturbing when the Holocaust is politically instrumentalized,โ€ far-right leader says.

French far right fumes after Jean-Marie Le Penโ€™s grave is vandalized

Perpetrators must be “severely punished,” rails National Rally chief Jordan Bardella.

โ€˜Did they learn nothing?โ€™: Auschwitz survivor to return German honour over AfD vote role

Albrecht Weinberg โ€˜horrifiedโ€™ that MPs relied on far-right party to pass anti-immigration motionA 99-year-old Holocaust survivor has said he will return his federal order of merit to the German president in protest over MPs passing an anti-immigration …

Ukraine war briefing: Hitler wanted to kill me โ€“ donโ€™t let Putin, says Ukrainian Holocaust survivor

Roman Schwarzman, 88, tells German MPs that Russia is perpetrating โ€˜another war of exterminationโ€™; more Ukrainian strikes damage Russian oil targets. What we know on day 1,072 Continue reading…

โ€˜Not possibleโ€™ to draw line under our history, German president says amid Musk AfD support โ€“ video

During his address to the German parliament, as it remembered the victims of the Holocaust, Frank-Walter Steinmeier said: ‘It is not possible to draw a line under our responsibility and end our responsibility.’ His words could be seen as a rebuke to th…

Press release – Holocaust Remembrance Day: a story dedicated to its six million victims

On Wednesday, Corrie Hermann, daughter of cellist and Holocaust victim Pรกl Hermann, addressed MEPs in a plenary session marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day Source : ยฉ European Union, 2025 – EP

Press release – MEPs commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today at noon, Parliament will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a special address by Corrie Hermann at a plenary session in Brussels. Source : ยฉ European Union, 2025 – EP

Muskโ€™s โ€˜move onโ€™ from the Holocaust plea challenges enduring German taboo

“Acknowledgement of the dark past of the country” is vital, says the chair of Israel’s Holocaust remembrance center.

โ€˜Memory hurts, memory guidesโ€™: Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary with warnings over rising antisemitism

Elderly former inmates gather for perhaps final time and urge vigilance against resurgent European far rightOn a day of startling blue skies, Auschwitz survivors stood before princes and presidents on Monday to remind the world, perhaps for the final t…

Lessons from the last survivors: How to remember the Holocaust?

Some 50 former inmates of the largest of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz-Birkinau making the trip to Poland for the 80th anniversary. How to process the collective folly of the industrial-scale mass extermination of one million Jews along with 100-t…

Irish presidentโ€™s Holocaust memorial speech reignites antisemitism row

Security staff forcibly removed a woman who objected to the president’s remarks, while others who turned their backs on Higgins were asked to leave.
The post Irish presidentโ€™s Holocaust memorial speech reignites antisemitism row appeared first on Eurac…

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025 โ€“ in pictures

Eighty years on from the day Soviet troops arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, survivors, international heads of state and dignitaries gathered at the site in Poland where more than 1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered. Intern…

How much recognition is there in Poland about what happened on Polish soil during WWII?

Some of the few remaining survivors of Auschwitz returned to the notorious Nazi death camp on Monday as the world marked the 80th anniversary of its liberation. How much recognition is there in Poland about what happened on Polish soil during WWII? FR…

Auschwitz survivors, world leaders mark 80 years since death camp’s liberation

Elderly Holocaust survivors gathered at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday to mark 80 years since the liberation of the concentration and extermination camp where Nazi Germany murdered 1.1 million people, most of them Jews killed in gas chambers. Watch the …

The week Starmer hands control to Reeves

๐Ÿ‘‰Listen to Politics At Jack And Samโ€™s on your podcast app๐Ÿ‘ˆ Sky Newsโ€™ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politicoโ€™s Anne McElvoy look at the day ahead in British politics. The week beings on Holocaust Memorial Day, marking 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. For that reason, there are no big government announcements today, [โ€ฆ]

My grandpa chose not to speak about his Holocaust experiences โ€“ but he asked me to tell the world | Ella Garai-Ebner

As the grandchild of a survivor, Iโ€™m proud to keep his testimony alive, in the hope that people never forget the horrors humanity is capable ofYesterday, I watched A Real Pain in the cinema. The film is a beautiful representation of two cousins, united…

Auschwitz survivor warns of โ€˜huge rise in antisemitismโ€™ in speech marking 80 years since death campโ€™s liberation โ€“ as it happened

In moving speech, Marian Turski warns that current conditions are similar to those which led to the Holocaustโ€˜I waved at my mother and she waved back. That was the last time we saw herโ€™: three Auschwitz survivors tell their storiesUS president Donald T…

‘Never Forget’: 80 years on, papers remember the horrors of Auschwitz

PRESS REVIEW โ€“ Monday, January 27: The papers remember the horrors of Auschwitz, as Monday marks 80 years since the camp’s liberation. Meanwhile, there is a worrying survey about the number of young people who have no knowledge of the Holocaust. Elsew…

Among monarchs and presidents, focus of Auschwitz anniversary is on 50 survivors

Former inmates of Nazi concentration camp in Poland will speak at ceremony marking 80 years since its liberationKings and queens, presidents, prime ministers and dignitaries from 54 countries will assemble at Auschwitz on Monday to mark the 80th annive…

Third of young adults in UK โ€˜unable to name Auschwitz or any Nazi death campsโ€™

Lack of knowledge about Holocaust identified as well as level of denial and disinformation seen on social mediaA third of young adults in the UK are unable to name Auschwitz or any of the other concentration camps and ghettoes where the crimes of the H…

Nazi plunder: French museums to return looted artwork to Jewish heirs

Eighty years ago, on January 27th, 1945, the extermination and concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Soviets. Of the 69,000 Jews deported from France, only 3 percent survived. During World War II, the Nazis looted property belongi…

Anti-Semitism on the rise: Last Holocaust survivors speak out in Germany

80 years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, the last survivors of the Holocaust are again speaking out against the rise of the far right in Germany. With theirย words and testimonies as their only weapons,ย the country’s last surviving wi…

Press release – Holocaust Remembrance Day: 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

On 29 January at noon, Parliament will commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a special address by Corrie Hermann at a plenary session in Brussels. Source : ยฉ European Union, 2025 – EP

Netanyahu: Musk is being โ€˜falsely smearedโ€™ over controversial salute

Israeli PM gives full-throated endorsement of Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser after he sparked outrage with stiff-armed gesture.

The nightmare begins. But by holding its nerve, the world can weather President Trump | Gaby Hinsliff

Globally, rightwing populists seem to be walking in his footsteps โ€“ but the UK is proof that thatโ€™s not inevitableThe snow lay in drifts over the railway lines at Auschwitz, when Keir Starmer went to pay his respects last week. His wife, Victoria, the …

โ€˜If You Compromise With Totalitarian Systems, You Will Pay a High Priceโ€™

In a new book, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dรถpfner urges the U.S. and Europe to join together in a โ€œFreedom Trade Allianceโ€ against China, Russia and other autocracies.

Nearly half the worldโ€™s population holds antisemitic beliefs

We have failed to pass on the memory and lessons of the Holocaust to younger generations โ€” the very future of our world.

Speeches by politicians banned at 80th anniversary of Auschwitzโ€™s liberation

Director of the memorial says he wants the focus to be on the last survivors of the Nazi concentration campMonarchs, presidents and prime ministers are expected among the attenders at a commemoration event for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of …

The new devils of the republic

If 2024 went out with a bang, it seems that 2025 has started playing the same tune.

Netanyahu can attend Auschwitz memorial event, Polandโ€™s Tusk says

The Israeli prime minister is subject to an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for war crimes in Gaza.

Jean-Marie Le Pen remembered as a fascist, a visionary and several things in between

Responses to the 96-year-old’s death have become something of a political Rorschach test in France.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of the French far right, is dead at 96

Ultranationalist and anti-immigrant views made him a pariah in 1980s France.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader, dies aged 96

Former paratrooper led National Front party for decades and courted controversy, being repeatedly fined for contesting crimes against humanityJean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of Franceโ€™s far-right National Front party, who sent shock waves through the co…

Netherlands to open archive on people accused of wartime Nazi collaboration

Some descendants are apprehensive but a historian says making 30m pages of records public is โ€˜important stepโ€™For 80 years, details of their ancestorsโ€™ collaboration with the Nazis have been buried in spotless rows of filing cabinets in The Hague. But t…

POLITICO London Playbook awards 2024

From minister of the year to WTF moment, Westminster’s essential newsletter picks the winners of 2024.

Westminsterโ€™s top books of 2024

POLITICO asked politicians and chroniclers of SW1 to tell us the book they most enjoyed reading this year โ€” here are the results, in their own words.

How Putin won the Romanian election

Voters on NATOโ€™s eastern flank were already ripe for Moscowโ€™s manipulation, after decadesย ofย misrule.

โ€˜I am hitting a wallโ€™: heir of Jewish art collector calls for restitution from Germany

Great-nephew of Alfred Flechtheim, who was forced to flee the Nazis, is frustrated at slow progress in returning works by Picasso and KleeGerman experts have long agreed that Michael Hulton, the sole surviving heir to an illustrious Jewish art collecto…

What Hamas wrought

Instead of igniting a war that would destroy Israel, the militant group lit the fuse that set much of the region on fire, burning its own allies above all.

Eighty years after thousands of Greek Jews were murdered, Thessalonikiโ€™s Holocaust museum is finally set to open

Germany is among donors committing millions to the long-awaited project, to be completed in 2026, which will tell story of those who perishedFew places are more representative of the horrors that befell Greece during Nazi occupation than the old railwa…

The hidden Nazi heritage of Germanyโ€™s far-right leader

Alice Weidelโ€™s grandfather was a military judge in Hitlerโ€™s regime.

Romaniaโ€™s election extravaganza awakens ghosts of fascist past

A far-right former football hooligan is polling strongly in the presidential race in a mega voting year for Romanians.

Sinwar might be gone, but Israelโ€™s mission is far from over

The account might be settled with the Hamas leader, the debt paid โ€” but the war is not over. This is just the beginning of the end.

Macron slams French ministers and journalists over leaked Israel comments

French president goes on attack to try put lid on brouhaha that sparked row with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel: Macronโ€™s a โ€˜disgraceโ€™

โ€œWe will continue defending our nation … with or without France,โ€ Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said.

Netanyahu blasts back at Macron in argument over the creation of Israel

Tensions rise between the two leaders over Israeli strikes in Lebanon.

Zelenskyy and Netanyahu are spawn of Hitler and the devil, Nicaraguan leader says

Russian ally Daniel Ortega berated the Ukrainian and Israeli leaders.

Human rights groups urge Polish PM to shelve plan to suspend right to asylum

More than 60 NGOs including Holocaust memorial group tell Donald Tusk regionโ€™s volatility โ€˜doesnโ€™t exempt us from humanityโ€™Human rights and a Holocaust memorial group have urged the Polish prime minister to shelve plans to temporarily suspend the right…

EU unites in pressing Israel to stop attacking UN forces

Austria says its troops will remain in the UN mission in Lebanon, asking Israel to stop the “unacceptable” attacks.

Trump calls US election โ€˜most important day in the history of Israelโ€™

The former presidentโ€™s remarks came at an event commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel.

Poland and Ukraineโ€™s bloody past overshadows their anti-Russia alliance

Thousands died in wartime massacres and Warsaw wants Kyiv to admit responsibility and allow for exhumations and reburial of the victims.

What Westminster (Massachusetts) really thinks about the US presidential election

A small town in Massachusetts is as politically divided as its London namesake.

Netanyahu sows doubt about cease-fire with Hezbollah in UN speech

The Israeli prime minister described the UN as a โ€œcontemptuous farce,โ€ pushing back on criticisms for Israelโ€™s actions in Gaza.

So long, no thanks to all the fash: review of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of
London

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Full disclosure first: After exactly
ten and a half years, I stopped posting on X (formerly Twitter) on August 10,
2024. I cou…

Humanity has been a casualty in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Biden can leverage tools available to the U.S. government to encourage Israelis and Palestinians to hold those who peddle in hate and facilitate abuse to account.

Show shines light on overlooked artist who made UKโ€™s first Holocaust memorial

Work of German-Jewish sculptor Fred Kormis, who fled Nazis in 1930s, is subject of exhibition in LondonThe work of an overlooked German-Jewish artist who created the UKโ€™s first memorial to victims of Nazi persecution is to be the focus of an exhibition…

Dutch row over which victims of Nazis get โ€˜stumbling stoneโ€™ plaques

Commemorations of 45 people โ€˜experimentallyโ€™ gassed reveal dark moments in the Netherlandsโ€™ historyThey call them stumbling stones โ€“ little brass plaques in the pavement marking addresses where Holocaust victims once lived.As the Netherlands marks 80 y…

Belgian far-right party puts convicted Holocaust denier up for local elections

Raes โ€œwas given a symbolic place” on the party’s list “out of respect,” its lead candidate in Aalter said.

New California law will help Holocaust survivors recover art stolen by Nazis

The law, signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, aims to resolve a Jewish familyโ€™s decades-long fight to recover a famous impressionist painting forcibly sold to Nazis during the Holocaust.

Czech street named after British man who saved Jewish children from Nazis

Nicholas Wintonโ€™s โ€˜Kinderโ€™ return to Prague to honour man who organised rescue of 669 childrenAt the age of seven, Alexandra Pfeifer was taken by her father and two brothers to Prague railway station, and told she was going on holiday. โ€œI didnโ€™t know w…

โ€˜A punch to the countryโ€™: German Jewish groups and minorities aghast at AfD victory

Holocaust survivors shocked at extent of support for far-right party while people of colour fear for their safetyAs the decades passed, the group โ€“ made up of those who had survived the unthinkable horrors of the Holocaust โ€“ had slowly begun to rebuild…

Tuesday briefing: Why the far rightโ€™s success in German state elections canโ€™t be written off as a local phenomenon any more

In todayโ€™s newsletter: Alternative fรผr Deutschland have deployed Nazi rhetoric throughout their rise โ€“ and they are pulling the mainstream further to the rightโ€ข Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. For the first time since …

Film suggests Nazisโ€™ lead propagandist had role in 1939 massacre

Letter in Leni Riefenstahl archive appears to claim her set instructions led to deaths of Polish Jews, says directorA new documentary on the Nazisโ€™ favourite film-maker and lead propagandist Leni Riefenstahl suggests she was a direct witness to murdero…

German court upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi secretary

Irmgard Furchner was convicted of being an accessory to the murder of more than 10,000 people at the Stutthof concentration camp.

German court rejects appeal by ex-Nazi secretary over role in 10,500 murders

Irmgard Furchner, 99, was found guilty in 2022 of being an accessory to killings at Stutthof concentration campA German court has rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,500 murders during her r…

What the last of the anti-war Chicago Seven wants todayโ€™s protestors to know

Lee Weiner helped lead the protests in 1968. Now heโ€™s smoking weed in Ron DeSantisโ€™ hometown.

Will Biden be the last Zionist US president?

More attuned to the Democratic Partyโ€™s progressive wing, Harrisโ€™s position is, if anything, more reflective of a changing America.

Press release – โ€œEquality over discrimination: history must never repeat itselfโ€ – President Metsola

The European Parliament marks European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day and honours the Sinti and Roma murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe. Source : ยฉ European Union, 2024 – EP

Croatia bans 3 top Montenegrin politicians over Holocaust resolution

The trio were declared personae non gratae โ€œdue to systematic actions to disrupt good neighborly relations.”

Harris may not be the savior on Gaza some dems want

In most ways, Harrisโ€™ policy toward the Israelis and Palestinians isnโ€™t necessarily going to differ that much from Bidenโ€™s.

Private meeting, billionaires and a G6 Gulfstream: The backstory on how Trump picked Vance

The 39-year-old freshman senator was named as Trumpโ€™s running mate on Monday.

The Commandantโ€™s Shadow review โ€“ family of Auschwitz commander bring healing to death-camp survivor

The son and grandson of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hรถss appear in Daniela Volkerโ€™s engrossing documentary, a companion piece to Zone of InterestThe first shock delivered by this engrossing documentary is probably the queasy jolt of recognition. Hans J…

French election: Nazi attire and racist comments dog Le Penโ€™s campaign

National Rally leadership is under fire for fielding candidates who have made racist comments or done favors for the Russian government.