One explanation for why European nations rose to global prominence rather than the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is offered by Jared Diamond in his book ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’. He ar...
Once, the Arab world stood tall. In the 1950s and 60s, Gamal Abdel Nasser’s voice thundered across the region, igniting the flames of Pan-Arabism. The 1970s shimmered with cultural brilliance –...
The World’s Failure to Accept Jewish Refugees (1933-1941) Until 1941, the Nazi regime sought to make Germany’s Jewish population emigrate rather than kill them – the systematic exter...
The Haavara Agreement (1933-1939) Up until 1941, the Nazi regime sought to make Germany’s Jewish population emigrate rather than kill them – the systematic extermination would come later. ...
The Forgotten Refuge: Jewish Life in the Middle East vs. Europe’s Legacy of Persecution A Stark Historical Contrast For over a thousand years, Jewish communities in the Middle East lived under I...
When Holocaust Remembrance Becomes a Product Germany’s commitment to confronting its past is often praised as a model of historical reckoning. Yet, over time, this engagement has become what most ri...
The Holocaust, the systematic murder of six million Jews, along with millions of others—Roma, Sinti, LGBT, disabled people, political dissidents, and more—was one of the most horrific crimes in hu...
Getting Worse Since 1914 Once upon a time, European culture was marked by optimism, scientific progress, and artistic flourishing. It was a time when borders were porous, ideas flowed freely, and peop...
Most neo-Nazis know as much about the Third Reich as the guys who ordered Islam for Dummies before joining Daesh (so-called IS). Probably even less, since they likely haven’t even picked up—much l...
Europe and the West often look down on the Middle East, viewing it through a lens of stereotypes and misconceptions. To many in the West, the region is seen as backward, plagued by violence, and domin...
Rosa Luxemburg remains hugely romanticized in Germany and political foundation bearing her name is funded by tax-money. Luxemburg’s brutal murder in January 1919, at the age of 47, coupled with her ...
Recently, I ‘came across a video of Geert Wilders, the Dutch far-right politician, bashing Al-Andalus—the period of Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula. (https://youtu.be/b3cmclVKANk?si=OsL-b...
Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and annexed Crimea in 2014. It meddled in Syria, prolonging Assad’s brutal rule. For over a decade, the United States urged Germany to increase its military spending. ...
