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A new Armenian genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh?

THE ARTICLE - FORCED EXODUS

Over the past ten months, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh have been encircled by Azerbaijan troops and endured a food, fuel and medical blockade. This was already a form of “ethnic cleansing” by attrition. Now, following a full-scale military attack by Azerbaijani troops, we are witnessing the forced mass exodus of the ethnic Armenians from their…
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Israel: a house divided?

THE ARTICLE - BOOK REVIEW

“Who are the Israelis today?” “What do they want?”  These are the questions that Isabel Kershner has tackled in her book, The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s battle for its inner soul (Scribe UK, £25), which is published tomorrow. Her book appears as Israel faces the most significant internal crisis in its 75-year history. Kershner traces…
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VOICES FROM THE REGION: From Bergen-Belsen to Ukraine

MANTRAYA.ORG The war in Ukraine and the atrocities committed there, with accompanying claims of genocide and Nazism, have made remembrance of the Holocaust more relevant than ever. We are confronted by perhaps the most serious challenge to the international rule of law since the end of World War II and, unfortunately, we are also confronted with…
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Discussing Genocide at Bergen-Belsen | Opinion

NEWSWEEK.COM My visit earlier this month to the site of the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, in northern Germany, was nothing less than surreal. At this very place during the final months of World War II, over 50,000 prisoners, most of them Jews, died of typhus, extreme malnutrition and other virulent diseases. And now, on…
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Never again? The legacy of Belsen

THEARTICLE.COM When a five-year-old child was chained and left outside in a courtyard to die by her ISIS captor, her enslaved mother never thought she would see justice done. Six years later, on October 25th, 2021, Jennifer Wenisch, a 30-year old German convert who had joined Islamic State, was convicted of crimes against humanity and…
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‘They are not human’: ISIS, the Yazidis and Germany

When a five-year-old child was chained and left outside in a courtyard to die by her ISIS captor, her enslaved mother never thought she would see justice done. Six years later, on October 25th, 2021, Jennifer Wenisch, a 30-year old German convert who had joined Islamic State, was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced…
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