Genocide

Russian-held town is a 'death trap' with starving residents, says Ukraine FM

Oleshky had a pre-war population of 24,000 people and is now home to around 1,700 residents, including 47 children, according to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.

Children use a flashlight as they go to play at the playground during a power blackout after critical civil infrastructure was hit by Russian missile and drone attacks, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 14, 2026.
NOBEL PEACE Center director Kjersti Flogstad and Norwegian Nobel Committee head Jorgen Watne Frydnes talk with this year’s Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay via video link at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, on October 10, 2026.

My Word: The Nobel non-Peace Prize - opinion

A Jew is arrested by German soldiers in April 1943 after the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto during WW2. When the Nazis set up the ghetto in 1940, it held more than 300 000 Jews. Two years later most of them has either died from starvation or disease or been carted off to an extermination camp.

Holocaust memory compels us to reject false genocide claims and face Gaza’s agony - opinion

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana speaks at the Council of Europe, October 15, 2026.

Genocide accusations against Israel are 'despicable lie,' Knesset Speaker Ohana says


UK Muslim Scouts Association investigated over art challenge featuring controversial slogans

Following this, the Post reached out to the Scouts, which confirmed it had received the complaint and “takes the concerns raised very seriously.”

An illustration of the Dome of the Rock from UK Muslim Scout Fellowship.

From forced conversion to genocide: How Yazidis carry centuries of persecution into exile

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: The Islamic interpretation of the Yazidi faith is what members of ISIS used to justify the enslavement of over 6,000 women and children and the murder of more than 5,000 people.

A Yazidi woman holds a flame during the Charshama Sor Red New Year ceremony at the Lalish temple in Iraq in April. For a community repeatedly driven from its ancestral homes and subjected to forced conversions, religious tradition has become an enduring expression of survival and continuity.

Replacements for Graham Platner as Democratic senate candidate 'won't fund Israel's genocide'

“Graham got into this race saying, ‘This is genocide,'” Wood said. “And I learned that it is so important in these moments to draw those moral lines.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (center) stands with Troy Jackson (left), who is now running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, and Graham Platner (right), who was then the Democrats' presumptive nominee, during Sanders' “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, May 24, 2026, in Orono, Maine.

Another Graham Platner potential replacement now says Israel committed genocide in Gaza

Platner’s successor will be selected during a nominating convention on July 25.

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows speaks during a May Day rally organized by unions outside City Hall in Portland, Maine, on May 1, 2026.

US Jews view Mamdani more favorably than Netanyahu, 7% say Hamas massacre justified - poll

39% of US Jews viewed Mamdani unfavorably, and 59% viewed Netanyahu unfavorably.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at the Jews For Racial & Economic Justice’s (JFREJ) Seder in the Streets at Union Square on April 06, 2026 in New York City.

Israeli tourist cancels Italy hotel booking after receiving 'No Room for Genocide' email

"I wrote that I didn't feel safe to go there," the tourist, R, told N12. "It made me a little less eager to travel, but I'm getting over it. It's still a very unpleasant feeling."

Palestinian sympathizers contest a demonstration in solidarity with the Israeli people on May 14, 2021 in Naples, Italy.

In Colorado, AP serves as definitive sanitizer of antisemitism - opinion

Indeed, the House overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan resolution condemning the attack as antisemitic. Thus, Kiros’s position on it, in her home state, makes her an outlier even in her own party

DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL candidate Melat Kiros speaks to supporters at an election-night watch party after winning the Colorado primary, in Denver, on June 30, 2026.

Israel recognizing Armenian Genocide doesn't go far enough – they must protect Armenians - opinion

States do not recognize genocides because they have suddenly discovered a moral conscience. They do so when it aligns with their political, strategic, diplomatic, or domestic interests.

 Members of the Armenian diaspora rally in front of the Turkish Embassy after U.S. President Joe Biden recognized that the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide in Washington, U.S., April 24, 2021.

'Clear call for genocide': Sa'ar speaks out after Turkish foreign minister's antisemitic interview

After Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called the people of Israel 'a burden that humanity can no longer bear,' Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar cites Holocaust history.

Gideon Sa'ar and Olivier Nduhungirehe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on July 6.

HRF files complaint against MKs over alleged 'incitement to genocide' ahead of Netherlands trip

The complaint calls on Dutch authorities to investigate the two MKs over "public incitement to genocide."

MKs Ram Ben Barak (L) and Moshe Solomon (R).