Tamara Micner
Tamara Micner
By Tamara Micner
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News How This Neo-Nazi Came Out As Bisexual — And Jewish
In 1983, Kevin Wilshaw visited Dachau with three fellow neo-Nazis. He had traveled to Germany from England, his home country, and visited Hitler’s house and the Nuremberg Stadium in Munich with his German hosts. He asked them to take him to the nearby concentration camp. “They were very reluctant,” he said. They took him, and…
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News Europe’s Far-Right Proves It’s Possible To Be Pro-Israel And Anti-Semitic
Last year, a website known for being pro-Israel referred to the political commentator Bill Kristol as a “renegade Jew.” The website, Breitbart News, was co-founded by a Jewish lawyer, has an office in Jerusalem and calls itself “unapologetically” pro-Israel. Across Western Europe, this phenomenon of being both pro-Israel and anti-Semitic has also appeared among political…
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Opinion Finding My Own Truth As Poland Rewrites Holocaust History
In August, Poland’s Cabinet approved a bill that would criminalize using the phrase “Polish death camp” or “Polish concentration camp,” with punishments ranging from fines to imprisonment. It’s one of several recent government reforms that critics have called anti-democratic. The bill also raises questions about Poland’s role in the Holocaust. It echoes the country’s communist-era…
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News What Would Uncle Trotsky Say?
My great-aunt made the revelation offhand, as if pointing out the drizzle outside her Geneva apartment. I was sharing sushi with her and my great-uncle last month, when she mentioned a new novel I should read, “The Man Who Loved Dogs,” about the assassination of the Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky. “Oh yes. Did you…
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