What Is the U.S. Doing in Syria?
Using diplomacy to keep Assad in power.
March 4, 2016
Remembering the Holocaust in Serbia
Creating a deceptive narrative of Serbian victimhood.
In 1995, when Serbia was still at war with its neighbors and engaged in the ethnic cleansing of Croats and Bosnian Muslims, its government established a memorial at the Staro Sajmište concentration camp in Belgrade, which had been established by the Nazis in 1942. The inscription notes that its “victims were mostly Serbs, Jews, and Roma,” although in fact the vast majority of those put to death there came from the latter two groups. As Liam Hoare writes, this detail reveals much about the way the Holocaust is remembered in Serbia—a country where many fought against the Nazis, but that also produced numerous collaborators:
March 4, 2016
A Close Look at the Palestinian Authority’s Textbooks
Glorification of martyrdom and the erasure of Israel.
Telling the Story of Talmudic Stories
Where did many of the tales in the Babylonian Talmud come from?
Remembering the Holocaust in Serbia
Creating a deceptive narrative of Serbian victimhood.
China’s Growing Influence in the Middle East
And growing closeness with Iran.