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Shira Li Bartov (JTA)

Dutch singer Claude Kiambe parades during the flag ceremony prior to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 at the St. Jakobshalle arena in Basel, May 17, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via JTA)
August 25, 2026, 10:16 am
Dutch broadcaster pulls out of Eurovision over Israel’s participation
The national network Avrotos said the annual song competition 'can no longer be considered neutral'
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Jurgen Stroop interrogates two captured Jews
August 24, 2026, 9:58 am
Influential book of a Nazi leader’s confessions is now available in English
Conversations with an Executioner was written by Polish political prisoner who shared cell with infamous Nazi war criminal
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
The California State Capitol building in Sacramento, CA, March 29, 2026. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)
July 31, 2026, 11:40 am
California law on antisemitism in schools will be enforced after free speech challenge is defeated
Teachers and students who challenged the law said it chilled discussion in the classroom about Palestinians
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
U.S. President Donald Trump meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at White House in Washington, D.C., July 28, 2026. (Maâayan Toaf (GPO)/Handout
July 30, 2026, 9:43 am
Netanyahu compares New York with ‘the 1930s’ after ‘hate-spewing’ Mamdani calls for his arrest
The comments escalated a showdown between the two leaders as Netanyahu plans to visit New York in September
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Psoy Korolenko, left, and Anna Shternshis, right, collaborated on "Yiddish Glory: The Silenced Songs of World War II." (Photo and design by Dan Rosenberg)
July 20, 2026, 2:44 pm
Lost Holocaust music, nearly erased by Stalin, goes on tour in Asia
Yiddish Glory’s new album, resurrecting music from witnesses of the Holocaust, follows a Grammy-nominated debut album
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Kaja Kallas, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, holds a press conference at the European Council building following a meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU member states in Brussels, July 13, 2026. (Michael Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
July 14, 2026, 10:56 am
EU seeks to advance trade ban on Israeli settlements
Israel’s foreign minister accused the EU foreign policy chief of an 'obsessive campaign against Israel'
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Screenshot: Jerry Seinfeld June 2026
June 12, 2026, 11:52 am
Seinfeld declines to say ‘free Palestine’ after Knicks game: ‘It doesn’t exist’
The exchange added to a number of dismissive comments by Seinfeld toward pro-Palestinian advocates in recent years
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Spanish Minister of the Interior Fernando Grande-Marlaska. Photo: Wikipedia
June 11, 2026, 9:56 am
Spain reports 86% rise in antisemitic incidents, as interior minister takes aim at ‘xenophobia’
The Spanish government said it documented the highest total hate incidents in 2025 since it began keeping records
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Rabbi Menachem Margolin
May 27, 2026, 11:02 am
Jewish leaders say Belgium’s prosecution of circumcision is antisemitic
Two Jewish men may be charged with assault and performing illegal circumcisions because they lacked licensed medical credentials
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
EU Commission Vice-President and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas Pic: Twitter/X
May 13, 2026, 10:41 am
EU sanctions Israeli settlers after Hungary, under new leadership, clears path
'Extremisms and violence carry consequences,' said the EU’s top diplomat, who said Hamas figures are also being sanctioned
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
A container installed near the site of the Jedwabne pogrom proclaims in Polish, "The earth doesn't lie." The container, installed in April 2026, promotes the narrative that Nazis, not Poles, killed the Jews of Jedwabne in 1941. (Screenshot)
April 20, 2026, 12:56 pm
Denying that Poles killed their Jewish neighbours, Polish activist declares victory over ‘the Jedwabne lie’
Relatives of a survivor of the 1941 pogrom say Wojciech Sumlinski has erected a “denial museum” on the graves of their family
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
The gatehouse at Buchenwald concentration camp. The clock is stopped at 3:15, the time of its liberation by American troops on April 11 1945 (Creative Commons/Chiode)
April 3, 2026, 11:22 am
German authorities ban anti-Israel demo at Buchenwald
Kufiyas in Buchenwald, the group behind the campaign, announced it was challenging the ban in court
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
A view from the public hearing at the International Court of Justice case on Israel's humanitarian obligations to Palestinians in Gaza, the Hague, Netherlands, April 29, 2025. (Mouneb Taim / Middle East Images via AFP)
March 16, 2026, 5:38 pm
US formally defends Israel in International Court of Justice genocide case
The United States said the genocide charge was part of a broader campaign “to delegitimise the State of Israel and the Jewish people.”
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Ana María Salomón Pérez and Isaac Herzog, President of Israel. Photo: Wikipedia
March 12, 2026, 4:34 pm
Spain withdraws ambassador to Israel, widening diplomatic rift as Trump threatens to sever trade
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has emerged as a lonely and unequivocal voice in Europe against the Iran war, making an enemy of President Donald Trump
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
A pair of finials, which adorned the wooden rollers of a Torah scroll, are among the artifacts being returned to Greece. (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw)
March 4, 2026, 6:22 pm
Poland returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece, decades after Nazi theft
This marks the first time Poland has repatriated cultural property held under its care that was illegally taken from another country
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
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