What kind of human being is capable of walking up to another person — an innocent, defenseless, unarmed civilian — and, at close range, shooting him or her?

Today, what’s rotten in the state of Denmark is the integrity of the country’s leaders.

The best way to honor Ilan’s memory is both to condemn those who desecrated his memorial, and to stand up against all those who commit anti-Jewish atrocities.

Regardless of what President Roosevelt privately thought about Hitler, he was determined to maintain cordial—sometimes friendly—relations with the Nazi regime in the 1930s.

There is a common thread to all these attacks, whether the target is Jews in general, Jewish bankers, Jewish publishers or the Jewish state — no matter who happens to be Israel’s prime minister at any given time.

Once Jews were dehumanized, killing them became not only permissible but admirable.

Public apologies of this sort have a certain symbolic value, since they represent a belated but necessary acknowledgment of historical truth. Whether or not the current mayor has truly learned from the mistakes of the past is another question.