Just after the Second World War, certain states took advantage of the distress faced by Jewish communities to unscrupulously sell artworks belonging to Jewish collectors—still unidentified at the time—that had been returned to them by the Allied Commissions from Germany (France, Netherlands, Latvia, Belgium). In the same way that colonial loot was auctioned off in situ, at the very sites where massacres occurred, as well as through auction houses and private sales in London, Paris, or Berlin. Norway did not hesitate to incorporate into its national heritage, during the war, the looted property of deported Jews, convinced of the fate reserved for their owners. More

Last night’s election results proved that a majority of people in this country do not want war and genocide. Polling overwhelmingly showed that the war on Iran was one of the biggest motivating factors in voting. So why are we about to give the very people voters rejected an unprecedented $1.5 trillion budget to continue their reign of death and destruction? Why are we going to allow Congress to hand over the largest war budget in human history to weapons manufacturers and AI tech billionaires who work at the behest of known war criminals? More

There is much talk of U.S. midterm elections. Such a relentless white noise, so calculated that all other conversation, like stopping the slaughter of Palestinians, seems like an inconvenient distraction rather than the actual topic at hand. Little discussion, if any, focuses on how this electoral spectacle systematically shortens our attention spans and blunts our More

In a pre-dawn raid on October 12, Ilhan Omar recalled being startled awake by Homeland Security agents banging on the door of her Washington DC home. During the raid at least 25 agents searched the modest dwelling for almost five hours and “walked away with 17 items, 10 that were just notebooks and 2 old phones.” The Democratic Representative told Chris Hayes on MSNOW that it felt like “such a bizarre, bizarre thing.” They took a camera her husband had gotten from from his uncle, and she added, “a Somali phrase book for children, which he was using to learn the language.” Omar has received death threats in the past, but that latest escalation forced her family to move out of their DC home. Audiences could clearly see the street number posted on the house, as broadcast footage lingered on the front doorway where agents moved in and out.  More