We want to think of it as ancient history, but it isn’t. It was unspeakable, unforgiveable, and it has to be unforgettable.

Just before Christmas, an EU report found that antisemitism is growing, or at least becoming more publicly active.

Reconciliation is a risky undertaking, but the Irish can be a forgiving people. Pope Francis, we’d like to move on. Help us in that process, writes Joyce Fegan

Defenders of racism and political incorrectness go for hysteria and witch hunting analogies to cover mild protest, writes Terry Prone

Irish4Israel welcomes the decision of the American government to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. For more than 2,000 years the Jewish people have yearned to return to Jerusalem, that desire became a reality in 1967.

An independent candidate in June's British general election has denied stirring up racial hatred by praising Adolf Hitler and calling for Jews in present-day Germany to be gassed.

It is time for Ireland to stop procrastinating, show some real vision, and summon up the courage to formally recognise the state of Palestine, writes TP O’Mahony.

Two murals depicting an oversized Donald Trump have appeared on Israel's West Bank separation barrier, just yards from where elusive British artist Banksy decorated a hotel earlier this year.

Kevin Myers has apologised for the anti-semitic remark that saw him sacked as a columnist from the Irish edition of the Sunday Times.

BBC presenter Vanessa Feltz has described a Sunday Times column written by Kevin Myers as "horrifying racism".

Palestinian flag flying atop our municipal buildings is about attaining the summit, in a hierarchy of victims, says Gerard Howlin.

As he gets ready for the Fastnet Film Festival, director Stephen Frears tells Esther McCarthy about his work on such movies such as Philomena and The Snapper, as well as his new-found love for West Cork

Assimilation was seen as a good thing, even if it meant the eradication of a separate culture, writes Terry Prone.

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LAST March, in Brussels, it was airline passengers, commuters, and the very institutions of the European Union, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Islamic State sees the whole of Europe, including Ireland, as the “home of the Jews and the Crusaders” and one “vast battleground” for its terrorists, a leading expert has warned.

Staff at the Auschwitz museum have uncovered jewellery secretly hidden in an enamel mug since the liberation of the wartime Nazi death camp in 1945.

Ingrid Carlberg’s meticulously crafted biography of Raoul Wallenberg recounts the story of a man who had a hand in the survival of most of the Jews in Budapest who lived through World War Two, writes Neil Robinson.

Following a ground-breaking case in Germany last week, in which a former Auschwitz guard apologised for his crimes, Andrew Nagorski looks at the refusal of many former Nazis to say sorry.

The Labour Party in England has suspended a councillor over social media posts, including a suggestion that Israel should be relocated to the United States.

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant has told a German court he is “ashamed” that he served as a guard in the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp.

Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Treblinka, the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, where 875,000 people were murdered, has died in Israel at the age of 93.

In November 2005, the United Nations officially designated January 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day under Resolution 60/7.

The six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust have been remembered at a ceremony in Dublin this evening.

A Palestinian attacker fatally stabbed two people in a Tel Aviv office building, police said, raising to 16 the number of Israelis who have died, along with 79 Palestinians, in a wave of violence over the past seven weeks.

Betty Purcell’s heartfelt advocacy on behalf of the Arab population in the West Bank is clearly genuine, she describes how “as a teenager, I planned to go and work on a kibbutz, believing that Israel was building an equal and fair society.

MADELAINE Nerson MacNamara nursed a dream of becoming a poet when she was in her teens.

Betty Purcell (Irish Examiner, November 2) makes some grossly inaccurate accusations against Israel and calls for a boycott against the Jewish State.

Desmond FitzGerald (Letters, November 2) presents a grossly misleading view of Israeli and Palestinian society.

The recent media coverage highlighting the claims that processed meats such as bacon and ham are harmful for the body and can cause cancer is not entirely new, considering that God in the Bible warned in the book of Leviticus not to eat these foods.

Following on from Dr Ronit Lentin, it’s appalling and tragic whenever children are killed. (Letters, 24 Oct 24).

Dr Kevin McCarthy, referring to the killing of Jewish settlers, Eiran and Naama Henkin, in the occupied West Bank on October 1, rightly states that there is nothing heroic about murdering parents in front of their children.

Israel has set up roadblocks in Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem, and deployed soldiers in cities across the country, to combat the worst surge of violence in months.

Re Kevin Mc Carthy’s letter ( September 5), as it happens the borough where I live in London (Tower Hamlets) is one of the poorest and richest in the country as it contains Canary Wharf and a swathe of deprived social housing estates.

It’s easy to muster compassion for people fleeing wars, but Europe also needs an influx of workers to counteract its falling birth rates, says Ian Buruma