Holocaust

Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing backlash from social media users as well as criticism from even her own party after she compared U.S. Capitol mask restrictions to the Holocaust. Greene recently told a podcast host that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's continuing pandemic mask requirement was similar to…

US Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene received a fresh wave of backlash on Thursday from Jewish organizations after she compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to continue requiring mask-wearing on the chamber floor to the "yellow badges," or "yellow stars" which the Nazi regime used to mark Jews during the…

What atrocities a human being is capable of and the psychic torments she might or might not suffer in consequence are, to a disturbing degree, social questions. In Joshua Oppenheimer’s disorienting 2012 documentary, The Act of Killing, a group of Indonesian gangsters reminisce in fond tones about the mass rape,…

“USPS lost Grandma (A THREAD)” Arielle Yuspeh typed those words into Twitter late Wednesday afternoon, knowing it was an act of utter desperation. But the West Hollywood resident was running out of options. It had been almost two weeks since her uncle Richard had gone to a post office near…

As the body count in hostilities between Israelis and Palestinian rises, so do fears that European Jews will be targeted in a phenomenon that many here call “the import of the conflict.” That’s what happened when Hamas and Israel exchanged blows in 2014, triggering the worst wave of antisemitic violence in…

The message, which suggested that COVID-19 measures have undone the liberation from the Nazis, drew sharp rebuke from Dutch Jews. By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA   MAY 5, 2021 15:53 Arrest of Dutch Jews by the Nazis, February 1941 (photo credit: PHOTO COLLECTION/DUTCH GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICE) A Dutch conservative party suggested on…

(RNS) — Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life congregation has chosen internationally renowned architect Daniel Libeskind to design a new building for the site where 11 Jews were gunned down in the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. Libeskind, the architect behind such high-profile projects as the master plan for New York’s…

Vandalism hit a Holocaust memorial in Portland, Oregon, where police said they found spray-painted anti-Semitic symbols on the memorial and throughout the neighborhood Sunday morning. Swastikas among other graffiti desecrated the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Washington Park as the Portland Police Bureau currently investigate the incident. "The damage to the…

Rep. Liz Cheney was chastised by several male GOP colleagues following her vote to impeach Trump. Rep. Norman of South Carolina told Cheney that she had "a defiant attitude," according to The Times. Cheney refused to apologize for her vote and the caucus decided to keep her in leadership. See…

AFTER “HAMAS, HAMAS, JEWS TO THE GAS” CHANTS, DUTCH CHIEF RABBI AND MAYOR OF ARNHEM SET FOR FRANK, DIFFICULT BUT NECESSARY TOWN HALL MEETING WITH VITESSE FANS After supporters of Arnhem based Vitesse football club were heard chanting “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas” ahead of a game against Amsterdam…