Munich attack 1972

Munich: The massacre the world must never forget - opinion

Munich remain a warning about what happens when hatred becomes an ideology, terrorism becomes a political weapon, and the murder of innocent people is rationalized in the name of a cause.

SCOUTS GUARD torches above the names of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich by terrorists from the Black September movement, at the memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv.
ERRI DE LUCA (on the screen) converses with Prof. Uri S. Cohen (seated on the right) at the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem on Monday.

Italian author Erri De Luca: ‘I am prepared to lose everything’ for backing Israel

THE FREE University Berlin (Freie Universitaet Berlin) stands at twilight on February 07, 2024 in Berlin, Germany.

Violent assault on Jewish student in Berlin not antisemitic in motive, appeals court rules

DROR KEREN as Mossad chief Zvi Zamir in ‘Band of Spies.’

'Band of Spies: A look at the Munich massacre aftermath - TV time


The hypocrisy of the 'Friends of the Jewish State'

Proclaiming friendship with Israel is easy, but how much is this friendship worth, when these very “friends” turn a blind eye to Holocaust denial and terror advocacy?

 People carry an Israeli and a German flag during a rally in solidarity with Israel and against antisemitism, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, May 20, 2021

ESPN film focuses on Holocaust and Munich Olympics survivor Shaul Ladany

Shaul Ladany, 86, survived a Nazi bombing of his family’s house when he was a child, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and the 1972 Munich Olympics terror attack.

SCOUTS GUARD torches above the names of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich by terrorists from the Black September movement, at the memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv.

My Word: What’s happened to Winnie-the-Pooh and the world

The Frake-Waterfield version could be called (or spelled) Winnie-the-S**t. The bear who is always “rumbly” in his “tumbly,” is causing a very different type of stomach ache.

 VISITORS WEARING face masks and Winnie-the-Pooh costumes are seen outside Tokyo Disneyland in  February 2020. The affable bear is being turned into a serial killer now that Disney no longer controls the rights.

Commemorating the Munich massacre on TV

Well-known Israeli author Yossi Melman co-wrote the movie, Munich 1972: Of Games and Blood, showing on Yes VOD and StingTV.

 ANAT WAXMAN does a very good job as Golda Meir in 'Munich 72'.

Letters to the Editor September 7, 2022: Like a cult

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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Lapid warns Israel is prepared to stop Iran if threats continue

Iran is behind “radical forces sowing terror, grief and devastation and seeking to menace everyone in the world,” said Herzog.

 Prime Minister Yair Lapid visits the Nevatim Air Base.

Germany takes responsibility for failure to protect Israelis in 1972 Munich massacre

"Those who remember the dark and endless hours of that bitter September carry in their hearts the same scar and the same moments which they followed with excruciating media reports." - Isaac Herzog

 President Isaac Herzog in his office at Beit Hanassi.

Germany asks for forgiveness 50 years after Olympics Munich Massacre

Germany should shoulder its share of responsibilities for the attack, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.

 Wreaths are placed during a ceremony, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympics in which eleven Israelis and a German policeman were killedtakes place near the Olympic village in Munich, Germany, September 5, 2022

The Munich Massacre also killed our faith in the postwar order - opinion

Seeing sport as an apolitical forum for excellence, Olympics fanatics hoped that nationalists would get their jollies by going for the gold rather than invading their neighbors.

 YASSER ARAFAT, founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization and at the time head of the Palestinian Authority, addresses the UN General Assembly in 1998. Two years after the Munich Massacre, in 1974, the UN first welcomed him to speak at the General Assembly.

Munich Massacre is ghastly reminder of worst side of mixing sports and politics - editorial

Fifty years on, it is important not only to acknowledge the Munich Massacre, but to learn from it.

 A stone cutter renovates a memorial stone for the 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympic Games, at the site of the hostage-taking at the former Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, August 18, 2022