Slavery

UN committee says countries must consider reparations for slave trade

Guidance published on Monday by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination stated that the obligations arise from a legally binding 1965 convention on racial discrimination.

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People arrive at the United Nations headquarters before a meeting on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at the UN, in New York City, US, April 27, 2026.
Mamadou Neyen from Senegal, agricultural worker, picks peppers on a day of high temperatures on July 16, 2026 in Lebrija, near Seville, Spain.

Israel bans import of goods made with forced labor to align with international trade standards

The executive directive instructs the Economy and Industry Ministry to establish regulations banning such goods in accordance with standards set by international law.

|ByJONAH DAVIDOV
Terrorists from Palestinian Islamic Jihad's al-Quds Brigades stand guard on the street during an Eid al-Adha celebration in Gaza City, May 27, 2026; illustrative.

A globalizing terror war has blinded the West. Finally an international response from its victims

More recently, Batoul Suleiman Alloush was kidnapped from her university campus in Latakia, Syria. She also won't help from organizations in the West created to save people just like her.

|ByCHARLES JACOBS, WALID PHARES
Visitors view the Lincoln Memorial Undercroft during the grand opening on June 25, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Lincoln Memorial to pull historic documents from public display over fear of heat damage - report

The documents include rare copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, bearing the original signatures of Abraham Lincoln and other Civil War-era officials.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM

A true tale of slavery, drugs, and chaos in the Middle East - book review

An unexpected rescue: Going through Middle Eastern hell to find hope.

NOVEMBER 26, 2021BySANDRA LEE BRAUDE
GREEK AUTHORITIES present confiscated items, including Captagon amphetamine pills, after dismantling a drug ring. The Captagon drug trade plays a significant role in the book’s plot about trying to find a Western hostage in Syria.

Archaeologists discover 'slave room' at Pompeii

Pompeii is famous historically for being an ancient city that was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. It was reportedly home to about 13,000 people.

NOVEMBER 14, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Archaeologists discover ancient 'Street Food Shop' - Pompeii

Statue of Thomas Jefferson to be removed from New York City Hall

The statue is 188-years old and about 7-feet tall and efforts for it to be removed reignited due to protests for racial justice throughout the United States last year.

OCTOBER 19, 2021ByGADI ZAIG
TOURISTS STROLL around the memorial to former US president Thomas Jefferson in Washington.

Israel is an essential ally to Africa - opinion

Since Israel was revived as a modern Jewish state in 1948, it has provided essential aid to countries in Africa.

OCTOBER 12, 2021ByROWAN POLOVIN
The emblem of the African Union.

Biden signs Juneteenth bill, creating holiday marking US slavery's end

Biden said the day is a reminder of the "terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take."

JUNE 17, 2021ByREUTERS
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden talks about the status of coronavirus vaccinations at the White House on Tuesday.

Family home of Harriet Tubman believed to be found in eastern Maryland

Archaeologists found a coin dated from 1808 on the Maryland Eastern Shore that portrays a woman with her hair blowing in the wind, wearing a hat that reads "Liberty."

APRIL 22, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

A monument to a Confederate governor who loved Jews is coming down

Why did he admire Jews while considering Black people subhuman, activists are asking? And why did some in the Jewish community lavish him with praise?

MARCH 31, 2021ByANDREA COOPER/JTA
The Zebulon Baird Vance Monument is a spot where groups from evangelicals to Black Lives Matter protesters go to be heard.

Could the Bible be cancel culture's next victim? - opinion

The terror of ‘woke’ cancel culture knows no bounds

MARCH 11, 2021ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
First edition of King James Bible

Parashat Va'era: Despair and destinations

The news of liberation comes to the slaves of Israel – but they are unable to hear it.

JANUARY 14, 2021ByDAVID WOLPE
‘MOSES WITH the Ten Commandments,’ Philippe de Champaigne, 1648: Why not read them every day?

A ‘High Holiday Prayer’ to the Czar

After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one top Jewish newspaper.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020ByZACK ROTHBART
The Jewish market in Minsk, home to one of the largest Jewish populations in the Pale of Settlement. From the Folklore Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.