Communists

Trump brands NYC’s victorious Israel critics as ‘communists’

Mamdani-backed Israel critics swept the primaries, marking a seismic backlash against pro-Israel incumbent Democrats and solidifying the left-wing mayor’s status as a power broker in New York.

Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander takes the stage with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in Brooklyn after winning the 10th District Democratic primary on June 23, 2026.
A police officer stands in front of red flags used to decorate a street, in Hanoi, Vietnam, August 30, 2025.

Vietnam's Communist Party targets social media influencers, AI for propaganda

Regla Yolanda Gonzalez poses for a photograph following her son's release from prison, part of a deal brokered by the Vatican that saw the Biden administration loosen sanctions on Cuba, in Havana, Cuba January 21, 2025.

Cuba begins releasing prisoners under scrutiny of rights groups, US government

IRAN’S CROWN Prince Reza Pahlavi meets with Iranian former left-wing political prisoners in Paris. Many who formerly would never would have the son of the shah have now backed his post-regime plan for Iran. Iraj Mesdaghi is second from left, next to Pahlavi, and bottom right is Mahshid Sepehri.

From revolutionaries to royalists? Why some of Iran's former leftists now back Reza Pahlavi


For the love of justice

In For the Love of Justice, my father incisively comments on many of these tumultuous events, bringing to them the personal experiences and emotions of one who lived through most of them.

Leo Lovell in a contemplative mood

Newly discovered account of 1933 Reichstag fire casts doubt on Nazi narrative

The seat of the German parliament was burned down on February 27, 1933. Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe was convicted of arson and executed.

The Reichstag building burns, February 27 1933

Book review: Consistent inconsistency

Susan Linfield takes a look at eight intellectuals who have addressed the question of Zionism and the Left.

NOAM CHOMSKY is accused by the author of numerous inaccuracies and the projection of ‘a crippling ideological rigidity.’

Middle Israel: The Prague Spring at 50, a status report

Freedom’s victory was inspiring, but tyranny – cunning, brazen and techy – is back on the attack.

People stand near a Soviet-made military vehicle as they watch a documentary on the Soviet Union-led occupation by the Warsaw Pact armies to halt former Czechoslovak Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek's Prague Spring political liberalisation reforms in then Czechoslovakia, broadcasted on a disp

Palestinian antisemitism: Skin deep, widespread and not well understood

This is generally how antisemitism manifests itself in Palestinian popular culture.

A Palestinian boy stands next to a Palestinian flag with a swastika painted over it as protesters march in solidarity with Palestinians against a Jewish settlement in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem July 17, 2010

50 years old, Cannes Film Festival still sparks controversy

“I’M TALKING about solidarity with the students and workers, and you’re talking about tracking shots and close-ups!” Godard famously spat at someone who opposed closing the festival.

LOUIS GARREL stars in ‘Godard Mon Amour,’ about the French political protests of 1968.

Two tragedies, and justice is required for both

It is my sincere hope that the Israeli people will recognize the Holodomor for what it was as we in Ukraine recognize the Holocaust.

A girl holding a Ukrainian flag walks by a memorial commemorating the Holodomor

#EU70 - 70th anniversary of the most important date in Europe's History

The Jerusalem Post

Was the Russian Revolution Jewish?

A hundred years after the Bolsheviks swept to power, historians and contemporaries still struggle to understand the prominent role played by Jews.

A BOLSHEVIK poster from 1920 shows Lenin sweeping away monarchs, clergy and capitalists. The Russian translates as ‘Lenin cleans the dirt from the Earth.

Middle Israel: Was the Bolshevik Revolution a Jewish plot?

Russian Jewry went to the Jewish state because here they would be free to study what they wish.

FROM LEFT, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.