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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 19, 2026, 6:52 AM

The Soros Network Captures Hungary Through Magyar

The Open Society Foundations began operating in Hungary in 1984 under the leadership of George Soros, a Hungarian-born Jewish Holocaust survivor. Over the next four decades, the network directed tens of millions of dollars into the country, aiming to...

Mar 24, 2026, 7:57 PM

Belgrade, 1999: On Memory and the Moral Limits of Redeveloping Ruins

The ruins of the General Staff Building Complex in Belgrade (Photo courtesy of the author)

In the mid‑2010s, I lived on Admirala Geprata, a quiet street in central Belgrade just blocks from Nemanjina, where the bombed‑out Yugoslav General Staff complex loomed like a scar that would never heal across the city’s main artery. Every...

Dec 27, 2025, 9:07 AM

Remembering and Forgetting in the Other Europe: In Memoriam Filip David

By Medija Centar Beograd - http://arhiva.mc.rs/upload/photoservice/2019/septembar/190910_forum//forum_09.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0

When Filip David (1940–2025) died this spring, his passing went largely unnoticed outside the Balkans, particularly in the English-speaking world. Like much of his life and work, his death attracted little attention, despite his contribution to European Holocaust literature. Philip...

Cedric Vloemans

Oct 10, 2025, 5:30 PM

When terror gets a state and democracy doesn’t

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The world’s hypocrisy: why Kosovo deserves what Palestine never will When Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez passionately defends the “right” of Palestinians to their own state, he does so with the moral conviction of a man standing on the right...

Cedric Vloemans

Sep 1, 2025, 11:47 AM

Toward Two States: A pragmatic vision in a complex reality

The two-state solution is routinely presented as the singular path to peace in the Middle East’s most volatile and complex region, a seemingly straightforward concept that, in practice, is entangled in decades of historical grievances, contested borders, deep-seated political...

Aug 10, 2025, 3:22 AM

The Danube: A River of Remembrance

Photo: Inez Korontos-Porath

When I die, I want to be cremated, and my ashes scattered into the Danube. I am aware of all the implications: theological, historical, emotional. Yet I have never found a place that I could call home, and Budapest...

Aug 4, 2025, 8:55 AM

In Spite of Everything: A Tale of Two Jewish Communities in Serbia

Photo: Cultural Heritage site of Serbia number СК1035.

There are fewer than 3,000 Jews living in Serbia today, and even that number, according to the most generous estimates, includes extended definitions of Jewish identity. Core statistics suggest the figure is closer to 1,500. With only two remaining...

Jun 6, 2024, 2:14 PM

The Balkan War drums are beating once again

"The whole world order broke down. After this, there was a very strong desire for war in Austria. People had already had enough of the Serbian provocation." - Otto von Hapsburg 110 years ago almost to the day, Archduke Franz...

Apr 28, 2024, 3:13 PM

Genocide: When lawfare masquerades as human rights

The aftershocks of Hamas deadly terror assault on October 7, 2023, are still being felt. Many in the world decided to characterize Israel’s response as an act of genocidal aggression instead of an obviously needed act of self-defense that...

Apr 25, 2024, 5:09 AM

Yad Vashem’s intervention desperately needed in bitter historical row

The recent barring of Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic from visiting the former Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia – the second such confrontation over the past 12 months - has highlighted a longstanding historical controversy that has devolved into...

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