Holocaust death camp survivors demand an apology from Nigel Farage for 'racist abuse' It comes after Farage denied at a press conference that he ever made racist remarks in a ‘malicious or nasty way’ Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2025
Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2025
Kate to stage annual Christmas carol service celebrating love in all forms Royal fans will be hoping Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis make an appearance, as they did at last year’s carol service. Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2025
Lithuanian court convicts leader of a governing party of inciting hatred against Jews The district court in Vilnius found that Remigijus Žemaitaitis incited hatred against Jews and grossly downplayed Nazi Germany's crimes. Euronews · Dec 4, 2025
Lithuanian court convicts the leader of a governing party of inciting hatred against Jews A Lithuanian court has convicted the leader of one of the parties in the country’s coalition government for making antisemitic comments and fined him 5,000 euros or about $5,800 The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2025
French student convicted of vandalising Robert Badinter's grave The 23-year-old man who admitted desecrating the tomb a few hours before the former French justice minister's entry into the Panthéon on 9 October was sentenced on Wednesday by the Nanterre court. Euronews · Dec 4, 2025
‘It was legs out all the time!’ June Squibb on starring in Scarlett Johansson’s directing debut – and Broadway’s original Gypsy She brought the house down as a stripper in Gypsy, going on to star in films with Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson. Now, at 96, she’s stealing the show in Eleanor the Great. What’s her secret? ‘Be a looker-ahead’ The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2025
Pro-Israel group blasted for ‘antisemite of the year’ list featuring Ms. Rachel and leaving off far-right figures Several nominees include Hollywood actresses and activists who have spoken out against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2025
Scarlett Johansson says she was pressed to remove Holocaust narrative from directing debut A backer of Eleanor the Great, about a woman who pretends to be a Holocaust survivor, dropped out after Johansson refused to make changes The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2025
Surreal, erudite and always experimenting: Tom Stoppard was a playwright never likely to stand still TRIBUTE: David Lister remembers the brilliant, complicated man whose work explored politics, science, love, Shakespeare, and even rock’n’roll The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2025
Checkpoints, camps and control: how violence and the law intertwine In her hybrid memoir 58 Facets, lawyer and legal anthropologist Marika Sosnowski traverses time and societies to reveal intricacies of law enacted by states to control, suppress, displace and, in some instances, erase people. For myriad reasons, these people do not possess the legal documentation to survive. The Conversation · Nov 30, 2025
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights finally grapples with the Nakba Even as it claims to champion the stories of global injustice, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has struggled, if not refused, to meaningfully acknowledge Palestine for more than a decade. The Conversation · Nov 30, 2025
Desperate Journey: wartime cliches overwhelm this extraordinary true account What does the familiar film tagline “based on a true story” really mean? Leaving aside questions of historical fidelity versus poetic license, what does an audience get from the assurance that a given story “truly happened”? The Conversation · Nov 27, 2025
Outrage as MEP compares Jewish people to Hannibal Lecter in speech outside Auschwitz Far-right politician Grzegorz Braun’s comments that ‘Poland is for the Poles’ have been branded ‘shameful’ by the country’s justice minister, who has promised an investigation The Independent UK · Nov 26, 2025
The Independent UK · Nov 25, 2025 Tucker Carlson puts Republican party on blast: ‘I hate them too much’ Carlson’s criticisms come in the wake of an interview he conducted with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, which has divided parts of the conservative movement
Evening Standard · Nov 22, 2025 Daughter of Holocaust survivor among those arrested at Palestine Action protest Carolyn Gelenter was one of around 100 protesters who gathered in Tavistock Square Gardens, central London, on Saturday afternoon.
The Independent UK · Nov 22, 2025 Daughter of Holocaust survivor among those arrested for holding Palestine Action signs Police officers methodically arrested protesters who were sitting in silence and holding signs
The Independent UK · Nov 21, 2025 France investigates Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot over Holocaust denial claims French officials previously raised concerns that the platform’s algorithm could be used for foreign interference
Euronews · Nov 21, 2025 Elon Musk's Grok goes viral for reviving a long-debunked claim about Auschwitz Musk's AI chatbot Grok repeated a long-debunked antisemitic trope about Auschwitz that experts told The Cube contradicts overwhelming evidence.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2025 Starmer accuses ‘spineless’ Farage of failure to tackle racism in Reform party PM says Reform UK leader also has ‘questions to answer’ about alleged racist comments and chants at school
The Conversation · Nov 20, 2025 The Holodomor on screen: how cinema shapes memory of Ukraine’s famine The famine of 1932-33, known as the Holodomor, claimed the lives of millions of people in Ukraine. It was not due to climactic failure, but caused by the confiscation of grain, punitively targeted by the Soviet government and its leader Joseph Stalin at Ukrainians.
The Conversation · Nov 20, 2025 What Yiddish literature reveals about Canada’s diverse canon and multilingual identity As an assistant professor of comparative literature, when I ask undergraduate students how they define “Canadian literature,” I get half-hearted answers about it encompassing anything inherently Canadian. They don’t, however, specify which language, if any, they believe Canadian literature must be written in.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2025 Nuremberg trial records made available online after painstaking 25-year project Launch of digitisation project marks 80th anniversary of start of legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice
The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2025 French authorities investigate alleged Holocaust denial posts on Elon Musk’s Grok AI X chatbot suggested gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ‘designed for disinfection’ not mass executions Europe live