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Supreme Court Narrows the FSIA’s Expropriation Exception (Again)

The decision in Hungary v. Simon has brought to an end 15 years of litigation against Holocaust victims in U.S. courts.
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Hungary v. Simon Offers Supreme Court Stark Choice

Hungary v. Simon, argued Tuesday at the US Supreme Court, has significant implications for the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's expropriation exception.
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Slavery Often Creates Disability – The International Criminal Court Should Address this Overlooked Connection

Slavery often crates the physiological, psychological, interpersonal, or environmental conditions that lead to disability.

We Charge Genocide: Redux

What we can name and render cognizable and what we must un-remember and forcefully forget is deeply connected to the numerous atrocities embedded in the international order.

Irrefutable Evidence for Unspeakable Crimes? The Role of the Written Order in Proving and Denying Genocide

An explicit written order has not been -- nor should be -- necessary, whether for international justice or for collective memory.
A local woman prepares to lay a candle among stelae at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also called the Holocaust Memorial, on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 26, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Jan. 27, 2024 is the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the biggest of the many concentration camps used by the Nazis during World War II to enslave and exterminate millions of Jews, political opponents, Roma and other Nazi-deemed undesirables. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Finding Light in the Darkness: A Meditation on Remembrance

(Adapted from an address delivered today at a joint Muslim-Jewish observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Srebrenica Memorial Center in Potoćari, Bosnia and…
Ukrainian flags in memory of soldiers who died during the war against Russia are seen on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti

Accountability for Russian Imperialism in the “Global East”

Despite a tendency to analyze global divisions over aggression trials through a “West” versus “Global South” binary, the longer-term stakes of accountability for Ukraine…

Why a Group of Jews Came to Mourn the Victims of the Srebrenica Genocide

Seeking to ensure all such horrors – Auschwitz, Srebrenica, Bergen-Belsen, Kigali, Bucha – are integrated into the world’s consciousness.
Men from the Bulgarian Jewish community pray.

The Ambiguity of Evil and Good: A Tale of Holocaust Rescue and Deportation in Bulgaria

(Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from a keynote lecture the author delivered today at an international conference, “Persecution and Collaboration, Rescue and Survival:…
The only remaining survivor of Convoy 73, a train that left German-occupied France in May 1944 carrying 878 Jews, Henri Zadjenwergier (center), with Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet (third from right), Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo (second from right) and Tallinn mayor Edgar Savisaar, as they unveil a monument in Tallinn on June 2, 2010, during a ceremony honoring the memory of hundreds of French Jews who were killed by Nazi Germany in Estonia during the Holocaust. "Here, before this memorial, I am torn with feelings of unease because I survived, and by sadness in the face of the pain of the families," said Zadjenwergier, 83. (Photo credit should read Arthur Sadvoski/AFP via Getty Images)

Sustaining Renewed Tolerance in Context: Reflections on the Holocaust in Estonia

The case of a Nazi collaborator deported from the US illustrates the need for constant vigilance against antisemitism and fascism.
A man walks through Hebrew Street in the Albanian city of Berat on February 6, 2019, in front of the city's tiny Solomon Museum, the country's only Jewish history museum. (Photo by GENT SHKULLAKU/AFP via Getty Images)

Albanian Museum to Celebrate Jewish Life and “Righteous” Who Gave Shelter During Holocaust

The Muslim-majority country is known as the only Nazi-occupied territory during World War II where the Jewish population increased.
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Could It Happen Here?: The Holocaust and Atrocities in the 21st Century

(Editor’s note: This article is published as part of our ongoing coverage of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read related content here.) As for many, last month’s…
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