Holocaust

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…

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…