Carnival

A man wearing a fake hooked nose and carrying a sign warning readers not to "tell the the truth about the Jew" at the annual procession of the carnival in Aalst, Belgium on Feb. 23, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Europe’s modern anti-Semitic carnivals are carrying on a centuries-old tradition

During the Middle Ages, Jews were made to run naked through the streets of Rome as locals pelted them with vegetables.

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 6, 2020 3:41 pm

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Participants of the carnival in Badajos, Spain on Feb. 23, 2020. (Extremadura Canal)

At another Spanish carnival, dancers equate Jews and Nazis alongside train and Auschwitz floats

The display in Badajos occurred amid debate on the appropriateness of festive parades apparently making light of the murder of millions by the Nazis.

March 2, 2020 9:50 am

German Jews are all in with a Catholic Carnival tradition

A new club embraces a local tradition for the first time since the Nazi era.

March 15, 2019 1:37 pm

Banned by Nazis, German-Jewish group called KKK returns to Cologne Carnival

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 6, 2019 11:01 am

Jewish group objects when samba dancer compares Brazil’s new president to Hitler

By Marcus M. Gilban February 4, 2019 7:11 am

A man wearing a fake hooked nose and carrying a sign warning readers not to "tell the the truth about the Jew" at the annual procession of the carnival in Aalst, Belgium on Feb. 23, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Europe’s modern anti-Semitic carnivals are carrying on a centuries-old tradition

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 6, 2020 3:41 pm

Participants of the carnival in Badajos, Spain on Feb. 23, 2020. (Extremadura Canal)

At another Spanish carnival, dancers equate Jews and Nazis alongside train and Auschwitz floats

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 2, 2020 9:50 am

German Jews are all in with a Catholic Carnival tradition

By Toby Axelrod March 15, 2019 1:37 pm

Banned by Nazis, German-Jewish group called KKK returns to Cologne Carnival

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 6, 2019 11:01 am

Jewish group objects when samba dancer compares Brazil’s new president to Hitler

By Marcus M. Gilban February 4, 2019 7:11 am

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