Holocaust

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…

Fox News spent much of last week warning its viewers about the Biden administration’s most sinister plot yet: an initiative to send people door-to-door to encourage Covid-19 vaccinations, in order to protect vulnerable and unvaccinated populations from the ravages of the pandemic as cases begin to tick upward once again.  “Going…

Education secretary Gavin Williamson has rejected suggestions that Holocaust deniers will be allowed to speak at universities and elsewhere under new free speech legislation. Labour is seeking to block the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill at second reading, arguing it could provide “legal protection and financial recompense” to those…

”We just want to stay clear of that,“ event center management says Getty Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s names on the speakers slate for a Southern California “America First” rally scheduled for next weekend was enough for the Orange County venue to cancel the event. “As soon as we…

"Yad Ezer La-Haver" is an organization established in 2001 that supplies assistance and "a warm home" for Holocaust Survivors in Israel. A Yad Sarah volunteer helps a Holocaust survivor to reach a vaccination center. (photo credit: COURTESY YAD SARAH) The "Yad Ezer La-Haver" organization announced that they will be launching…