The International Criminal Court issued unprecedented arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in November, the first time warrants have been issued against leaders from a democratic country.
Mahmoud Abbas is not expected to participate in somber International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations on Friday.
President Biden released a post that should never have needed to have been said.
“Give me an example of one Muslim state with possibly the exception of Morocco, where Jews and other religions live and prosper as minorities."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Responded the Simon Wiesenthal Center: “At a time when the Internet is awash with fake news and technological tools that enable governments and virtually anyone to manipulate information, we welcome Facebook’s change of policy to stand with historic fact and the 6 million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany during World War II.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A state administrative judge ruled in August that William Latson should be rehired, though reassigned. Donald Fennoy, superintendent of the School District of Palm Beach County, has recommended that Latson be reinstated and given $152,000 in back pay.
Every day, a recorded message from the final generation of Holocaust survivors to Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg will be posted on Facebook.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was joined at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who called Abbas a “man of peace” and the “only partner” Israel has in peace negotiations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The amateur musician claimed the Holocaust was “a bunch of lies” and referred to Auschwitz as a “theme park.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If passed the legislation would grant money raised through donations to American schools as part of the Holocaust Education Assistance Program.
“It’s a dramatic step but it embodies a clear message that we are not willing to accept the distortion of history ."
Holocaust denial by the Arabs and others.
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Even Yad Vashem, whose research on the Holocaust is highly regarded, must now update its archives to reflect the new revelations.
Supreme Leader Ali Khameini opposes the Ahmedinejad candidacy, but he plans to run anyway.
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'The Six Million: Fact or Fiction?' by Peter Winter is reportedly available for sale by Amazon in Germany, a country where Holocaust denial is a crime.
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For decades, the International Red Cross and governments around the world, including the US and Israel, did not allow the archives to be opened for public use.
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For more than two years, the Living Memorial has served as a site for regular talks, lectures, discussions groups, musical performances and commemorations.
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She denounced “the 6-million lie” and recommended the writings of Ernst Zündel, a German Holocaust denier who had been deported from Canada in 2005.
Shai ben-Takoa laments France's need to order Jews around.
“I think that every country in the world must stand up and fully condemn this,” Netanyahu said. “This is what I told US Secretary of State John Kerry last night in my conversation with him.”
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“We do not mean to approve or deny the Holocaust," said the exhibition's curator. Good to know.
Russia and Israel are partners in the struggle against revisionist history, Russian officials said.
By JTA
The indictment is against a Holocaust survivor.
Jewish blood was cheap and could be shed with impunity.
By Daryl Deino
Teaching tolerance in the California Public School system means teaching that anti-Semitism is OK
Jews do not fare well on campuses these days, particularly in the context of the debate over Israel.
By J. E. Dyer
To investigate Holocaust denial is to enter into a sick world of darkness and brooding fury.
By JTA
A Dutch Muslim group is planning to commemorate “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine” on Holland’s memorial day for victims of Nazism. The Platform Bewust Muslim group is planning to hold the ceremony on Sunday at a mosque in Hilversum, near Amsterdam, under the banner “Palestine, the Shadow Holocaust,” the Jewish television channel Joods Omroep reported […]
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The foreign minister of Iran was summoned to a closed session of the country’s parliament to clarify public comments he made condemning the Holocaust. Some 54 hard-line lawmakers signed the petition summoning Mohammad Javad Zarif to the session, Reuters reported, citing the official Iranian news agency IRNA. The Holocaust was “tragically cruel and should not […]
Muslim Antisemitism is well documented
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A Greek court has ordered the head of the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party held in jail until his trial following six hours of testimony that ran through the night. Nikolaos Michaloliakos was arrested last week with several other lawmakers and senior Golden Dawn members on charges of forming a criminal organization, part of an unprecedented […]
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged the Holocaust as a crime against the Jews but refused to comment on its scope. “I have said before that I am not a historian, and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it,” Rouhani told CNN […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Facebook “does not permit hate speech, but distinguishes between serious and humorous speech.” If so, Holocaust denial and praise for Hitler apparently can now be called harmless humor.
By JTA
A judge in Geneva sentenced a Swiss blogger on Tuesday to six months in jail for denying the Holocaust and inciting hate. The 55-year-old man, who was not named, directed his comments against all Jews and had denied the Holocaust in 50 articles published between January 2010 and May of this year, according to the […]
By JTA
Outgoing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a farewell ceremony that publicizing his Holocaust denial was a major achievement of his presidency. “That was a taboo topic that no one in the West allowed to be heard,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech Sunday, according to the Iranian Fars News Agency. “We put it forward at […]
Hatred of Jews is alive and well in Russia. Legislators have proposed that a new law impose harsh punishment for Holocaust denial, but Feedbacks are overwhelming negative: “Jews are cockroaches.”
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel on Thursday reacted to the election of Pope Francis I by highlighting his predecessors' “rich and fruitful dialogue …with the Chief Rabbinate of Israel on primary issues such as banning terrorism in God's Name, the sanctity of life and the sanctity of the family unit." The office of the Chief […]