Holocaust

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto said a day ahead of the opening ceremony that director Kentaro Kobayashi has been dismissed.…

Just one day before the Opening Ceremony of the COVID-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the director of that ceremony has been fired for a Holocaust comment he made 23 years ago. Kentaro Kobayashi, who was the ceremony's director, was dismissed after a joke from one of his comedy acts in 1998…

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto said a day ahead of the opening ceremony that director Kentaro Kobayashi has been dismissed.…

TOKYO — Organizers announced Thursday that they have dismissed the director of the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics after learning that he made light of the Holocaust in a comedy routine. The firing of the director, comedian and theater director Kentaro Kobayashi, comes a little more than 24 hours before the…

Tokyo 2020 chief Seiko Hashimoto told reporters that Kentaro Kobayashi has been fired.© AFP The show director for the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony has been fired over a decades-old comedy skit referencing the Holocaust, organisers said Thursday, in the latest blow for the pandemic-delayed Games. Kentaro Kobayashi made the comment…

Zhu Yaozhong/VCG via Getty Images Only days before the event, officials for the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo have fired Kentaro Kobayashi, the creative director for the opening ceremony.  According to Motoko Rich of the New York Times, organizers in Japan announced Thursday morning, local time, that Kobayashi was let go after a past…

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Author of the article: Article content TOKYO — On the eve of the Tokyo Games, organizers fired the director of the opening ceremony over comments he made about the Holocaust, while media reported former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a…

PARIS (AP) — A French Holocaust survivor has denounced anti-vaccination protesters comparing themselves to Jews who were persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II. French officials and anti-racism groups joined the 94-year-old in expressing indignation. As more than 100,000 people marched around France against government vaccine rules on Saturday,…

When Rosa Parks refused to move seats on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus in 1955, she struck a defining blow in the civil rights movement in the US. But what many fail to see is that Ms Parks' actions did not solve the issues of suffrage, of equality or of racism.…

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Several dozen nationalist protesters disrupted a commemoration ceremony for Jewish victims of a 1941 pogrom in Jedwabne, Poland, symbolizing the country’s fraught debate over who should be blamed for World War II-era atrocities. The nationalists brought flags and signs and disturbed people praying at the site…