Holocaust

Although photographs are among the most useful tools we have to remind ourselves that the recent past was populated by living, breathing people just like us, they do have their limits. Moving pictures—the ones most of us now make so casually, with the miniature computers we carry around in our…

Author of the article: BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police have opened a preliminary investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over his comments this week that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians. The remarks, during a news conference in Berlin alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, sparked outrage in Germany, Israel…

JTA — Jesse Eisenberg’s newest film directing project follows two estranged cousins who travel to Poland and learn about their grandmother’s Holocaust story. “A Real Pain,” which will star Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin, will begin shooting in Warsaw in March, Screen Daily reported on Wednesday. After their grandmother dies, according…

JTA — The superintendent of the Texas school district that this week ordered the removal of “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” from its school’s shelves said Thursday that he expected the book, along with the Bible and other books that were removed following parental challenges, “will be on shelves…

Author of the article: The Associated Press Frank Jordans BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Israel’s prime minister Thursday that he condemns any attempts to deny or downplay the Holocaust, offering reassurance after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sparked outrage with remarks to that effect earlier this week. Speaking…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, gesturing, made the remarks at a Tuesday news conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.Photo: clemens bilan/ShutterstockUpdated Aug. 17, 2022 3:16 pm ET BERLIN—The German government summoned the Palestinian representative in Berlin in protest over a comment by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday accusing…

JERUSALEM: Israel and Germany today condemned remarks by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Berlin, where he compared the Holocaust to the Jewish state’s killings of Palestinians. Abbas, standing beside Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterday, was asked if he would apologise on behalf of the Palestinian militants who carried out the 1972…

BERLIN, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The German chancellery summoned the head of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Berlin on Wednesday to protest Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' comparison of Israeli actions with the Holocaust, a German government spokesperson said. "It is clear for us, the government and the chancellor, that the…

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday walked back the widely condemned accusation he made a day earlier that Israel had committed “50 holocausts” against Palestinians, claiming he had merely been intending to highlight Israeli “crimes.” Abbas’s remarks, made during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz voiced disgust on Wednesday at remarks by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the German leader said diminished the importance of the Holocaust, while Israel accused Abbas of telling a “monstrous lie.” “For us Germans in particular, any relativisation of the singularity of the Holocaust is intolerable…