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.

|ByREUTERS
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

The Jewish slaveholders

Beyond the antisemitic canards, Jews alternately participated, coopted and resisted slavery.

APRIL 11, 2019ByNAIM PERESS
Judah P. Benjamin, the most prominent Jewish slaveholder in American history