Holocaust

Nobody expects Donald Trump, despite his prep school and Ivy League education, to know much about well, anything, but especially history, which he appears to view as mere context for his own salvific rise to fame and then power. But his comments this weekend …

In an update today, YouTube is claiming to have made significant progress in removing harmful video on its platform following a June update to its content policy which prohibited supremacist and other hateful content. The company says it has this quarter remo…

Sergeant Richard Firrito, a spokesman for the United States Park Police in New York, said the incident was being investigated as a bias crime. Investigators believe a group broke into a shed that the club uses for arts programs on Friday and vandalized the i…

Twitter has a Nazi problem. Or, more specifically, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account has a Nazi problem.  On Friday afternoon, Dorsey's account was hacked to spread a pro-Hitler message along with anti-Semitism associated with the Holocaust. The tweet was qu…

US President Donald Trump will on Sunday attend sombre commemorations in Warsaw of the outbreak of World War II, 80 years ago. Trump will be the first US head of state to visit Poland to mark the anniversary of the start of the war, which claimed 50 million …

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of The Jews Should Keep Quiet: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust, forthcoming from The Jewish Publication Soci…

I really feel that there is something dehumanizing in being just a victim, Keret said. When the Holocaust shows up in his stories, it is often as a foil, a background to the lives of individuals like the narrator in Yad Vashem, who is touring Israels Holocaus…

Christian Right activist Dave Daubenmire, who believes Jews are “no longer God’s chosen people” because they hate Jesus, said on his Pass the Salt Live webcast today that there’s no way six million Jews died in the Holocaust — and he had proof! That proof? A…

Its infuriating and intolerable, said Sophie Ellman-Golan, 27, the former director of communications and digital outreach at the Womens March organization, who is now working on a project to mobilize Jews against white nationalism. Because the right purports …

Massive human-caused fires in the Amazon are burning the rainforest at a record rate, stoking global concerns about its potential impact on climate change and shrouding Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in controversy. The Onion looks at the most significant…