Holocaust

In a Washington Post editorial published Wednesday, authors Deborah E. Lipstadt and Norman Eisen argue for the radical comparison of challenging recent election results with denying that a Nazi Holocaust, the “best-documented genocide in the world,” ever occurred.  The essay, titled “Denying the Holocaust threatens democracy. So does denying the…

So who is Halie Soifer? According to her Twitter bio, she was a senior policy adviser in the Obama administration, served as national security adviser for Kamala Harris, and is CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. She also seems bothered that President Trump on Tuesday named Richard Grenell…

WASHINGTON: The lingering legacy of World War Two reached the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday as the justices weighed two cases involving claims by Jews in Germany and Hungary and their descendants whose property was taken amid persecution that culminated in the Holocaust.The justices heard arguments in the two cases…

New York Times bestselling author and tentacle porn enthusiast Kurt Eichenwald is taking COVID-19 very seriously while stewing that others aren’t. On Friday, he wished for Rep. Jim Jordan to suffer after telling Americans to enjoy Christmas:Dr. Fauci says Americans should “avoid travel” over the holidays. What will he cancel…

The double standard of voting against the Jewish state on one hand while fighting anti-Semitism and memorializing the Holocaust on the other really misses the markAuthor of the article:Avi Benlolo, National PostPublishing date:Dec 03, 2020  •   •  4 minute readThe UN General Assembly meets in 2019. Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty…

The video is available on Facebook, which in October said it would ban Holocaust denial from its platform. By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA  DECEMBER 3, 2020 05:20 JEWS BEING transported by railway during the Holocaust. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Lorenzo Dechalus, a well-known rapper whose stage name is Lord Jamar, said that…

Last month, Facebook announced a crackdown: The platform would no longer permit content that “denies or distorts the Holocaust” as part of its larger policy prohibiting hate speech. While noting that successful enforcement could take time, Monika Bickert, Facebook’s vice president of content policy, explained the ban in a blog…

When it made the announcement, the company pledged that it would direct users to resources that provide credible information about the Holocaust. Those resources have yet to appear on the site. By BEN SALES/JTA  NOVEMBER 26, 2020 04:55 Polish born Mordechai Fox, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, wears a yellow Star…

President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke Tuesday at an event introducing the incoming administration's top national security officials, where he told the story of his stepfather being the only one of 900 children at his school in Poland to survive the Holocaust.What they're saying: "At…

One of the problems with the Trump administration, in addition to the pure evil, rampant nepotism, rank incompetence, large-scale corruption, and attempts to overthrow democracy, is that virtually everything it does falls under the category of “can‘t make this shit up.” For example, we knew that Donald Trump was an abject…