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Cuba begins releasing prisoners under scrutiny of rights groups, US government

The decision to release the prisoners on the island comes after Washington's most intense pressure campaign in decades, although Havana denies any decision-making under US coercion.

Regla Yolanda Gonzalez poses for a photograph following her son's release from prison, part of a deal brokered by the Vatican that saw the Biden administration loosen sanctions on Cuba, in Havana, Cuba January 21, 2025.
IRAN’S CROWN Prince Reza Pahlavi meets with Iranian former left-wing political prisoners in Paris. Many who formerly would never would have the son of the shah have now backed his post-regime plan for Iran. Iraj Mesdaghi is second from left, next to Pahlavi, and bottom right is Mahshid Sepehri.

From revolutionaries to royalists? Why some of Iran's former leftists now back Reza Pahlavi

The US flag flutters at the US embassy in Caracas on March 14, 2026, ten days after the restoration of diplomatic relations following the capture of ousted leader Nicolas Maduro in a US military raid.

US push for Western Hemisphere dominance could extend to Cuba and Nicaragua, experts say

New York City mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani, left, and Andrew Cuomo.

Anti-Mamdani super PAC evokes ‘communist’ label as Cuomo seeks GOP voters in NYC mayoral race


Book review: Consistent inconsistency

Susan Linfield takes a look at eight intellectuals who have addressed the question of Zionism and the Left.

NOAM CHOMSKY is accused by the author of numerous inaccuracies and the projection of ‘a crippling ideological rigidity.’

Middle Israel: The Prague Spring at 50, a status report

Freedom’s victory was inspiring, but tyranny – cunning, brazen and techy – is back on the attack.

People stand near a Soviet-made military vehicle as they watch a documentary on the Soviet Union-led occupation by the Warsaw Pact armies to halt former Czechoslovak Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek's Prague Spring political liberalisation reforms in then Czechoslovakia, broadcasted on a disp

Palestinian antisemitism: Skin deep, widespread and not well understood

This is generally how antisemitism manifests itself in Palestinian popular culture.

A Palestinian boy stands next to a Palestinian flag with a swastika painted over it as protesters march in solidarity with Palestinians against a Jewish settlement in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem July 17, 2010

50 years old, Cannes Film Festival still sparks controversy

“I’M TALKING about solidarity with the students and workers, and you’re talking about tracking shots and close-ups!” Godard famously spat at someone who opposed closing the festival.

LOUIS GARREL stars in ‘Godard Mon Amour,’ about the French political protests of 1968.

Two tragedies, and justice is required for both

It is my sincere hope that the Israeli people will recognize the Holodomor for what it was as we in Ukraine recognize the Holocaust.

A girl holding a Ukrainian flag walks by a memorial commemorating the Holodomor

#EU70 - 70th anniversary of the most important date in Europe's History

The Jerusalem Post

Was the Russian Revolution Jewish?

A hundred years after the Bolsheviks swept to power, historians and contemporaries still struggle to understand the prominent role played by Jews.

A BOLSHEVIK poster from 1920 shows Lenin sweeping away monarchs, clergy and capitalists. The Russian translates as ‘Lenin cleans the dirt from the Earth.

Middle Israel: Was the Bolshevik Revolution a Jewish plot?

Russian Jewry went to the Jewish state because here they would be free to study what they wish.

FROM LEFT, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.

Sano founder and Israeli industrialist Bruno Landsberg dies at 97

Bruno Landsberg was an Israeli tycoon, philanthropist who fled both the Nazis and Communists in his native Romania.

Sano founder and Israeli industrialist Bruno Landsberg.