Holocaust

The Anti-Defamation League called on Trump to rescind Beattie’s appointment to the commission, which CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called “downright shocking.” By BEN SALES/JTA  NOVEMBER 19, 2020 07:22 Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (photo credit: WIKIMEDIA) (JTA) — President Donald Trump has nominated Darren Beattie, a…

Darren Beattie, right, on a recent episode of Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show.Screenshot: Fox News (Other)In 2018, the Trump administration fired a White House speechwriter after he was revealed to have spoken at an annual far-right conference in 2016 attended by white supremacists, pseudoscientific quacks, contrarian academics, and other racists.…

CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour apologizes for comparing the Trump administration to brutal Kristallnacht crackdown by Nazis on Jewish people in Germany in 1938On Monday CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour apologized for her comments made last week On November 13 she compared Trump's administration to Kristallnacht during a segment commemorating the 82nd…

You are hereHome Bill 168, if passed into legislation, would require the government of Ontario to be guided by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's controversial working definition of anti-Semitism. Thank you for reading this story… More people are reading rabble.ca than ever and unlike many news organizations, we have never…

The Ontario government's October 26 implementation of the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism through an order-in-council has led to questions about what this actually means. Deputy Attorney General David Corbett has answered several of those in correspondence with the Canadian human rights organization, Just Peace Advocates.  Corbett stated that…

Isayama Hajime worked nights at an internet café. He found the customers strange and often frightening. Many wandered around aimlessly, struggled to communicate, were drunk and belligerent. Inspired by these phantoms, Hajime, a quiet, polite man, wrote and illustrated Attack on Titan, one of the most popular manga to gain…

Yesterday, we told you about Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who, in a 2017 tweet, said that Donald Trump was “pandering to his neo-Nazi base.”But, as we all know, it’s Donald Trump who is the ultimate Nazi.But don’t take our word for it. Take CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour’s, who…

Food Network personality Alton Brown apologized Wednesday for the “flippant reference” he made to the Holocaust in a tweet the night before saying, “It was a very poor use of judgement and in poor taste.” On Tuesday, the “Good Eats” host tweeted, “Do you think the the camp uniforms will…

Food Network Good Eats and Iron Chef America host Alton Brown apologized today for a series of joking Twitter references to concentration camps and the Holocaust. The 58-year-old Brown at first defended his remarks, then admitted they were in “poor taste.” In his tweetstorm that sparked an uproar, Brown asked,…

Netflix is adding 15 new shows, movies, and specials on the week of November 8th. New licensed movies and TV shows being added to the Netflix library this week include Fruitvale Station, Prom Night, and American Horror Story: 1984. A new original sketch series called Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House of…