The top 10 countries facing alcoholism globally are almost exclusively European. In 2019, 8.4 percent of the EU’s population aged 15 and older consumed alcohol every day. According to the World Health Organization, Europe has the highest proportion of drinkers...
When I was invited to give this ‘Speech to Europe’ on Judenplatz, there was a personal reason why I was delighted to accept. That is my own family’s history. My son and wife had just received their Austrian citizenship, and...
The ravages of Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine are nothing less than ecocide. As the Commander in Chief and under the doctrine of command responsibility, Vladimir Putin is accountable for the acts of the Russian armed forces, who have unleashed...
Leading up to the March 7 State of the Union speech, Biden supporters were scared. They had every reason to be. The President’s approval rating had dropped from 42% to an abysmal 38%, even lower than ex-President Trump’s before the...
‘What are people interested in in Europe? I think they are interested in understanding.’ Agnieszka Wisnewska, editor-in-chief of the Polish opinion daily Krytyka Polityczna, stresses the importance of small publishers that do not sprout out of capital cities. ‘The paradox...
I was just a child when a group of Chechens attacked the train taking my mother and me to Sochi. It was night or late evening, and a heavy cobblestone crashed into our compartment window. The stone flew past me...
Since last spring, I have been on an extended tour to promote my new book, Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust, which looks at German responses to the ‘crime of crimes’ in other countries since 1945. Invariably, at...
In Ny Tid, Otto Ekman writes on the murder of Refaat Alareer, the Palestinian poet who together with his brother Salah, nephew Mohamed, sister Asmaa and her three children Alaa, Yahia and Mohamed, were killed when an Israeli missile struck...
As a child in communist Romania of the 1980’s, I remember pilaf was one of the staples in the Ottoman-influenced cuisine of the south of the country. My mother and my grandmother used to put it in the oven, after...
Recently, the opinion has taken root in Israel, and among many Jews and non-Jews internationally, that the slogan ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ is antisemitic, calling for the destruction of the state of Israel and...
