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Elder Of Ziyon - New AJC survey: 11% of young Americans think Jews caused the Holocaust; US Jews are hiding their Jewishness (video)

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American Bar Association removes reference to IHRA in resolution

This revision of the resolution is a result of a major campaign waged by extremist anti-Israel groups, incl. Human Rights Watch (HRW), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and others.

Politics | Media Bias

Noam Blum buries the Courier Journal for their ridiculous Holocaust Remembrance Day article

A Courier Journal opinion piece said 'Jews do not have a monopoly on persecution and atrocities' in an article about Holocaust Remembrance Day.

They would NEVER say this about any other day representing a minority. Progressives despise Jews. They demonstrate that hate over and over again.

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Almost A Quarter of Dutch Millennials Believe Holocaust is Myth: New Survey Elicits Shock In Netherlands

A street in Amsterdam, Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Dutch Justice Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz led a chorus of outrage Wednesday over a …

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AJC survey: Half of Americans don’t know how many Jews died in the Holocaust

Those with more years of school tend to know more about the Shoah.

Half of Americans are ignorant morons. We see that fact in action every November.

History | History

New exhibit on DP camps showcases ‘extraordinary energy’ of the Jewish people

“You see this extraordinary power of their will to live, to create a future for their children and themselves that is connected to their heritage to their traditions,” said Jonathan Brent, YIVO CEO and executive director, of the exhibit at United Nations

Politics | Biden Administration/Congress

Where’s the outrage over Biden comparing illegal immigrants to Holocaust victims?

Millions of economic migrants crossing the U.S. southern border want a better life. But most are neither refugees nor analogous to Jews fleeing Nazi slaughter.

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

Elder Of Ziyon - Large cache of Jewish objects hidden by Jews in Lodz in 1939 unearthed (lots of photos)

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History | History

'The great unpunishment': How, why so many Holocaust perpetrators got away with it

Fewer than 600 of those who enacted the Holocaust received heavy sentences after WWII. David Wilkinson's docu explores how the mass of Nazi criminals, collaborators escaped justice

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Holocaust survivor, among last prisoners of Auschwitz, passes away

Mordechai Papirblat was a prisoner who worked in hard labor for a period of about 900 days until he managed to escape from a death march at the end of January 1945.

BDE. We are losing these people rapidly, they represent the last living witnesses to the worst crime ever perpetrated on humanity, at a time when Holocaust denial is becoming not o my common, but trendy, fashionable, and common. Just repeating “never again” over and over again does nothing. We need to FIGHT antisemitism wherever it appears. End of story-there is no other way.

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How German It Is: Sentences Suspended for Tormenting a Young Jewish Man

The defendants insisted that the assault had been "light-hearted."

Miscellaneous | Resources

The Evil of Holocaust Denial | PragerU

Why would anyone deny the single most documented genocide in history? This week, Dennis responds to strong opposition he received from his recent column, If…

History | History

The whole truth about Ukraine’s past matters

Kyiv is right to ask that Stalin’s terror famine be recognized as genocide. But it should be equally honest about those who collaborated with Hitler.

History | History

Chilling, newly discovered photos show Nazi Kristallnacht up close

Yad Vashem says images are first to show pogrom from indoor vantage point; indicate German public was aware and that violence was coordinated by authorities

Politics | Opinion

The Holocaust Is Not Your Metaphor

"A production of Romeo and Juliet for non-binary performers"

Great article. Liberals, and many conservatives, have been exploiting the Holocaust for their own purposes, for FAR too long. That is particularly true of non-Jews who have no right at all to weigh in on the Holocaust with anything that doesn’t involve horror, respect, and sympathy. That is it. Yet - too many people seem to think that the Holocaust was a universal event, which anyone should be able to use. And that is especially true of the far left which simultaneously hates Jews, while pretending that the Holocaust actually means something to them. They seem to have zero problem comparing any of their little pet causes, no matter how trivial, to the Shoah.

History | History

Peter Bergson - The Unintended Hero of the Holocaust Era

Saving 200,000 European Jews.

History | History

How Ken Burns Misuses the Holocaust

Ken Burns’s documentaries blend striking visuals of still photos or archival film with colorful and often insightful analysis and narration. But his skill as

Burns is a leftist hack who is exploiting the Shoah to prop up the left’s dangerous immigration policies.

“What Burns omits is more telling. His 2014 production, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, included at least some criticism of FDR’s inaction when it came to the Holocaust. But this film—a film about the Holocaust—consistently defends him. The story told here is one in which the president, a man who had largely unchallenged political power as he bestrode the American scene, wanted to do more but was prevented from doing so. In this telling, it is a nativist Congress, Jew-haters at the State Department, the general acceptance of anti-Semitism, as well as the exigencies of fighting the war and the impossibility of effective action or rescue that stopped this well-meaning president from saving more Jews.”

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

Torah scroll in memory of the million and a half children killed in the Holocaust

The woman whose three siblings were murdered in the Holocaust is going on a mission to memorialize them

History | History

Auschwitz Was Not Bombed Because the World Didn’t Care

The sign “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work makes you free”) is pictured at the main gate of the former Nazi concentration …

History | History

The first Jew to escape Auschwitz helped save 200,000 lives -- but few know his name

Rudolf Vrba should be celebrated for his role in preventing the deportation of many of Budapest's Jews, says UK author Jonathan Freedland in his new book, 'The Escape Artist'

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

Historian: Ken Burns Holocaust Documentary on PBS Whitewashes FDR

Holocaust scholar Rafael Medoff says Ken Burns's new documentary, "The U.S. and the Holocaust," whitewashes FDR's record on saving Jews.

Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous

America’s Holocaust failure through the lens of 21st-century politics

Ken Burns’s new documentary focuses on immigration law and anti-Semitism in ways that both illuminate and distort the lessons of history while largely giving a pass to FDR.

Ken Burns is a dirtbag who recently compared the flying of 50 illegal immigrant to Martha’s Vineyard to the Holocaust. His only concern in making this documentary was to exploit the deaths of six million Jews to push his political agenda. Which is why he rescued to talk about FDR’s refusal to help the Jews of Europe. This is yet another example of leftists exploiting, and therefore demeaning the memory of the most horrific genocide in human history.

History | History

American filmmaker Ken Burns has a Palestine problem

Why is Burns trying to disqualify Palestine from the conversation? Why resort to a technicality about sovereignty in order to try to push Palestine out of the discussion?

Jen Burns turned out to be a real bastard. Just like the Democrat’s hero FDR.

“Sadly, Roosevelt chose to keep Jews out of the Virgin Islands, despite the offer by the governor and legislative assembly of that territory to open their doors to Jews fleeing Hitler.”

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Inseparable to the last: Sisters who survived Holocaust, moved to US, die days apart

Ruth Scheuer Siegler and Ilse Scheuer Nathan, who said they helped each other survive Nazi camp, are remembered for remaining inseparable throughout their lives

This is so sad. We are quickly losing all of the witnesses to the worst crime in human history. It’s happening at a time when Holocaust denial is becoming acceptable in many quarters. May the memory of these two brave women be for a blessing.

News | News

Has Wolf Blitzer’s father just pulled the rug out from under filmmaker Ken Burns?

Wolf Blitzer's father and the bombing of Auschwitz. Op-ed.

Ken Burns is a total hack. First his woke documentary on Benjamin Franklin, and now, as a typical leftist, a whitewashing of FDR’s Jew hatred, and repulsive behavior during the Holocaust because FDR is a democrat hero.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Mass grave holding ashes of 8,000 Nazi victims discovered in Polish forest

  Special investigators in Poland say they have found two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles

Another example of why it’s so insane that the Holocaust is quickly being de-Judaized in an attempt to exploit the worst genocide in human history as being some kind of intersectional tragedy. Jews, and Jews alone, were targeted for complete annihilation in the Holocaust.

News | News

AI identifies rocker Geddy Lee’s mother in Holocaust photos

Google engineer develops algorithm to identify lost faces in WWII photos as part of Numbers to Names project

History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - Three minutes of color film footage of the Jews of Nasielsk, Poland, on the eve of the Holocaust

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This breaks my heart.

History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - Arabs admired Nazi Germany - not in spite of genocide but because of it

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History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - The Holocaust was well documented even by 1943, but the world didn't care

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Politics | Opinion

What have we really learned from Yom Ha’Shoah? | Israel National News

Yom Ha’Shoah comes to teach, to remind, to educate and to wake up a sleeping nation. Even in Israel, a major wake-up call is needed.Opinion.

History | History

We're all obligated to remember the victims of the Holocaust

  "Dear Berthe, this is already the fourth day. I am on the train car now. I hope, my child,

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Global Jewish Population Not Yet Recovered From WWII, According to Israeli Data

Thousands of runners take part in the 2018 Jerusalem Marathon on March 9, 2018. Photo: Yonatan Sindel / Flash90. JNS.org …

This is a well known fact. So this data only confirms it. Again.

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‘March of the Living’ Resumes After 2-Year Hiatus: ‘Almost the Last Opportunity to March With Holocaust Survivors’

Participants attend the annual “March of the Living” to commemorate the Holocaust at the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, in …

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96-year-old Holocaust survivor killed in Russian shelling of Kharkiv

Boris Romantschenko, who was not Jewish, survived four concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald

Very sad news. He survived FOUR camps and then was murdered more than seventy years later by Vladimir Putin.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Thanks, Whoopi! Why Holocaust Education Is mostly counter-productive

Shoah education proposes that Jews are easiest to murder without payback, and it makes Jewish youngsters want to escape that fate. Op-ed.

I couldn’t agree more. The more secular Jewish community has spent 70 years saying “never again,” without spending that time teaching Jews what it means to be Jewish. Organizations like the ADL, the Federations, the National Council of Jewish Women and on and on and on have replaced Jewish identity in the United States with something that resembles American leftism more than anything authentically Jewish. That philosophy has an extremely distorted version of “tikkun olam” at its core. They then combine that with “Holocaust education” to justify participating in every imaginable left wing cause, often, sadly, even those that are anti-Israel, and sometimes even anti-Jewish. It is destructive and is one reason why the secular American Jewish world has utterly failed at inspiring people to live Jewish lives.

We have to fight antisemitism by fighting back, and not by repeating tired cliches and phrases. We have to inspire Jews by teaching them about Judaism and our history. Holocaust education is important, but it is only one part of that. We also have to accept that teaching the world about the Holocaust isn’t going to make them like us any more, or less, than they do now. Strength and conviction accomplish far more than conversations, memos, and everything else that the organized secular Jewish bureaucracy has been pretending (for decades) is effective.

History | History

How the Science of Racism Led to the Holocaust - The war against the divine image in man

Can the world survive on ethics devised by human reason? Well, we tried. It’s called the 20th century.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Holocaust reenactment at D.C.'s Watkins Elementary School should remind us antisemitism is a severe threat

How many attacks must we sustain before the world accepts that a message of Jew-hatred has become systemic?

News | NEWS

88-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Challenges ‘The View’ After Whoopi’s Comments: Put Me On The Show

On Monday evening, prompted by ABC’s “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg making harshly insensitive comments about the Holocaust in which she insisted, “It’s not about race. It’s not about race. … It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about. … These are two white groups of people,” an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor tweeted a message to “The View” challenging them to have her on the show.

Politics | Debunking Lies

Elder Of Ziyon - “Most Influential Arab Newspaper" says "Palestinian Holocaust" worse than ...The Holocaust

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History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - When was the term "holocaust" first used for the Holocaust?

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News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

'Shema Yisrael' pendants discovered in Sobibor Excavations

The pendants were uncovered in areas where victims were forced to undress before being herded into the gas chambers and near one of the mass graves.

Heartbreaking.

History | HISTORY

Wannsee Conference: The most shameful document of modern history

The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, was not about consumer trends, projected profits or shareholder value, it was about life and death. Specifically, systematic death.

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‘Nothing Compares to This’: Survivors Denounce Online ‘Trivialization’ of Holocaust Found in Study

Dutch vaccine refusal activists are seen wearing images and clothing associated with the Nazi Holocaust at a demonstration. Photo: CIDI. …

I couldn’t agree more. You don’t need a study to tell you that people, on and off social media, continually exploit the Holocaust for their own gain. That is extends from applying the word “survivor,” or “denial” trivially to the use of “Nazi.” In fact, we are in serious danger of the all of the language associated with the Holocaust, including “Nazi,” meaning nothing more than “bad” for most people. It is a travesty and slap in the face to the people who experienced the worst genocide in human history, and opens the door to losing the lessons learned from that genocide.

Politics | Opinion

Holocaust Education and “The Elephant as the Table”

Interview with Master Holocaust Teacher Dorene Schwartz-Weitz on the need for mandatory Holocaust education.

Politics | Opinion

Holocaust manipulation: Do not defile their memory

“She gave my dad life and then he gave me life and now I’m helping her to survive,” said Toronto physician Dr. Jordana Sacks.

Politics | Opinion

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Myth of the Good German

Some Holocaust movies are embellishing history to impart the wrong lesson.

This column is exactly right, and there are dozens of equally revisionist, propagandistic, Holocaust films.

News | News

Fourth Expert Resigns From Polish Government’s Auschwitz Council After Appointment of Hardline Nationalist Stirs Controversy

A sign at the Auschwitz death camp ordering “Stop!” in German and Polish. Photo: Reuters/Kacper Pempel. Another expert has resigned …

Auschwitz has been massively mismanaged by the still antisemitic Polish for far too long. That needs to end.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

The First Lesson of the Holocaust: The Jewish People Will Never Allow Anyone to Do This to Us Again

Iran parades missiles with the words: “Israel must be wiped off the map.” - The First Lesson of the Holocaust: The Jewish People Will Never Allow Anyone to Do This to Us Again

Never again means, or must mean, NEVER again.

History | History

The Holocaust truths left out of the history texts

The story school history books leave out tells how the US and Hitler cooperated in the crimes committed against the Jewish people. Op-ed.

Never forget that it was Franklin Roosevelt, a democrat, who did absolutely nothing to save 6 million Jews murdered in the Shoah, despite having the knowledge, power, and resources to save untold numbers of the people we lost.

Politics | BDS

Outrage as South African BDS Advocate Tells Students, 'Hitler Committed No Crime'

Supporters of the South African BDS campaign rally in Johannesburg on May 31, 2019. Photo: Screenshot A prominent South African …

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US Announces $235 Million Aid Package for Palestinians; World Jewish Population Reaches 1925 Level | Honest Reporting

US President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday announced the restoration of $235 million in US assistance to the Palestinians, including to the

So Biden is giving money to the Palestinians, much of which will go to terrorists sworn to take Jewish lives (G-d forbid), as the world Jewish population STILL isn’t what it was before the Shoah. If you’re Jewish: STOP voting for democrats.

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‘Poland Cannot Hide The Truth:’ Anger Among Jewish Leaders as Warsaw Court Orders Holocaust Scholars to Apologize for Alleged Libel

Spectators attend a commemorative ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two in Warsaw, Poland …

Some things never change. Poland has always been an exceedingly antisemitic country. That didn’t change because the Holocaust happened.

History | History

The Jews who fought back during the Holocaust

Our communal sense of history and peoplehood give us the strength to continue while our enemies fall by the wayside. Op-ed.

News | Antisemitism Watch

The IHRA does not include Holocaust inversion (saying Israel is acting like Nazis) in its definition of Holocaust distortion. Why the hell not?

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Politics | Politics

Sheldon Schreter - The Shoah and the Creation of the State of Israel

Sheldon Schreter – The Shoah and the Creation of the State of Israel Many Jews and non-Jews, both friends and enemies of Israel, assume that Israel was founded as a result of the Shoah of European Jewry. While the Shoah was indisputably an important

History | History

Obituary: Moshe Taube, renowned cantor and Schindler’s list survivor

Squirrel Hill resident was a ‘giant in the community,’ a leading cantor and prominent witness to Holocaust  

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Study: More than one in 10 Americans under 40 thinks Jews caused the Holocaust

Holocaust knowledge particularly low in New York, despite state having the largest population of Jews in the US

This is just pathetic. In New York it’s nearly 1 in 5. Our education system is terrible, but this happened because teaching Jewish history, WWII, and European history doesn’t happen at all in American schools. Antisemitism hit record levels in recent years. The total lack of recognition of “Jewish” as a separate ethnic identity (as opposed to the ridiculous and dishonest ideas of “white Jews” or “Jews of color”) is part of the reason why both are happening. Bigoted Jewish stereotypes are becoming normalized (again) because there is very little being taught that is authentically Jewish. The result is ignorance.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Report: Facebook Doesn’t ‘Recognize Holocaust Denial’ as Anti-Jewish Hate Speech

Facebook logo. Photo: www.shopcatalog.com via Flickr. JNS.org – Facebook, according to an Aug. 10 report, “actively promotes further Holocaust-denial content …

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In historic first, Israel Air Force flies above Dachau camp in Germany

A joint drill by the Israeli and German air forces on Tuesday included a historic flyover above the Dachau concentration

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Fountain dedicated to Holocaust survivors vandalized at Santa Rosa cemetery

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The fountain, also served as a place for ritual washing and cleansing,and is near the Santa Rosa cemetery. It was dedicated to the late Lillian Judd and her husband, Emil, who survived concentration camps. Lillian spoke to local children about the Holocaust for decades until her death in 2016 at age 92.

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Never forget? Report warns Holocaust studies neglected in Israel

A new report on Holocaust education in Israel's universities and colleges points out a lack of academics who focus on

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In Tweets, Ex-US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Questions Number of Holocaust Victims

Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Photo: Reuters / Joshua Roberts. A former US congresswoman and notorious anti-Israel activist and conspiracy …

Another garbage human who is, of course, a Jew hater.

History | History

New Book Reveals a Gripping True Story From Auschwitz | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner

The main gate at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. In his gripping new book, The Boy …

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

Remembering the Holocaust in a post-'sacred survival' era

For several decades, the Holocaust shaped the way American Jews thought about their place in the modern world. For the

Politics | Opinion

Being Fired by Trump Does Not Make You a Holocaust Victim

Government bureaucrats aren’t endowed with a God-given right to work in the executive branch of the United States government. Most of these "victims" will find lucrative work elsewhere.

History | HISTORY

In eastern Europe, when Nazis killed Jews, a 'carnival atmosphere' prevailed

In a new, second book about ‘Holocaust by bullets,’ Father Patrick Desbois depicts in grim detail local bystanders' culpability while Nazis implemented the Final Solution

News | News

‘I Wish I Could Say We Germans Have Understood the Holocaust,’ President Steinmeier Confesses in 75th Anniversary Commemoration Address

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (r) embraces his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin at a Holocaust commemoration event in the Bundestag in …

History | History

Auschwitz survivors: First Jews sent to the Nazi concentration camp were teenage girls

As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Edith Friedman Grosman, who was 17 when she arrived at the Nazi concentration camp, tells her harrowing story in a new book

History | History

Twin sisters were liberated from Auschwitz, but not from Mengele

The experiments to which Yehudit and Lea Csengeri were subjected to by Dr. Josef Mengele have made them afraid of doctors to this day

History | History

Why the Bombing Auschwitz Argument Still Matters

The Allies’ refusal to devote sufficient resources to rescue and halt the Nazi murder factory is one more reason why a sovereign State of Israel is necessary.

News | Antisemitism Watch

 Honoring Holocaust victims means fighting anti-Semitism

This week, an extraordinary conference is taking place in Jerusalem: Prime Ministers and heads of state from over 30 countries

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Last Auschwitz survivors speak: 'We haven't won, but we've taught our grandkids'

Heart-wrenching testimonies from survivors living in Israel, as the Jewish state prepares to host world leaders on the 75th anniversary of the death camp's liberation

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Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account minimizes Polish complicity for the Holocaust

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Poland has launched a massive campaign to portray Poles as victims of the Holocaust no less than Jews, and even goes so far as to claim that the Poles were “heroes” of the Holocaust who spent most of the war attempting to rescue Jews. Amazingly, the Auschwitz Museum is complicit in this.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Poland Asks Netflix to Make Changes to Documentary About Nazi Death Camp Guard

Convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk leaves a courtroom in Munich after the verdict in his case, May 12, …

I am SO sick of Holocaust revisionism and revisionists. Hitler placed dozens of camps in Poland because he knew that the Poles were even more antisemitic than the Germans. There were pogroms in Poland AFTER the Holocaust. So the idea that the poor Poles were also unwitting victims of the Nazis is absolutely false. Poland’s history of vehement and disgusting antisemitism goes back centuries.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

A Psychotherapist’s Shema in Auschwitz - Vaetchanan

What is it about the Shema Yisroel prayer that has inspired so many through the most trying of times and has provided such meaning and purpose to help us survive even the most despairing circumstances?

History | History

Holocaust survivor owes her life to a Nazi officer’s Great Dane

Nina Dinar, 93, has loved dogs since childhood and that saved her in a Nazi labor camp in Poland

I wasn’t sure if this belonged in Jewish Community, History or Dogs. What a fascinating story. I didn’t know about this at all.

Politics | Politics

Milano Comes Under Fire After Comparing Pence to Himmler

Actress Alyssa Milano came under fire on Sunday after comparing Vice President Mike Pence to the architect of the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler, with side-by-side pictures on Twitter.

I am incredibly sick of people exploiting the Holocaust for political gain, especially by ignorant ex child actors who know less about history than a low IQ bunny.

Politics | POLITICS

Holocaust survivor: AOC 'should be removed from Congress'

93-year-old Holocaust survivor Ed Mosberg has no time for Rep. ­Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s statements last week, when she called the southern border’s migrant detention centers “concentration camps.”

I agree completely.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

The Long Legacy of the Shoah in Scandinavia – Tablet Magazine

Within the Northern European countries that make up Scandinavia there has been a revival of active scholarship and popular interest into the treatment of Jews during World War II. The subject is very much alive in these countries and much more so than in

This is fascinating, although I am disappointed that the story of the Danish King confronting the Nazis is basically not true. The bottom line is that if other occupied countries had acted differently: millions more of us would have survived. The stories of Denmark and Sweden, but not Norway, name that clear.

Politics | Politics

MENKEN: AOC Is Dividing Americans And Inciting Anti-Semitism

After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) used “concentration camps” and “Never Again” together — a unique reference to the Nazi death camps — and then retweeted leftist Jews hoping to justify the linkage while she simultaneously denied that she ever connected them in the first instance, I honestly thought it couldn’t get worse.

Do people even comprehend why so many of us take this so seriously? Jews, especially over the past few years, have been subjected continually to a rising barrage of antisemitism, physical attacks, an anti-Israel movement that uses propaganda to increasingly mainstream the lie that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, and a never ending exploitation of OUR history to legitimize any number of political agendas. The reason why the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Yad Vashem, the Auschwitz Museum & the US Holocaust Museum stepped in is because hijacking the language of the Holocaust has been a tool of Holocaust deniers for a very long time. So whether people defending "AOC" understand this or not, there is NO valid use of Holocaust imagery absent literal genocide. That is exactly why no one had a problem applying Holocaust imagery to Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia etc., however applying that imagery to detention centers run by the United States, only serves to trivialize the absolute nightmare of genocide.

AOC knows this, so does Ilhan Omar. The fact that some Jews, unfortunately, agree with them is a sign of their own devotion to ideology or ignorance of the Holocaust, and our own history (unfortunately, neither is unusual), NOT evidence of authority on the subject. Being born Jewish, or having relatives murdered during WWII, does not automatically imbue you with an authoritative understanding of the Shoah or anything else. Legitimate criticism of the border situation deserves a serious public discussion, you can do that without appropriating the worst genocide in human history, and more importantly, without exploiting the memory of its victims.

Politics | Politics

Concentration Camps? Stop Hijacking Jewish History | The Jerusalem post

US media has now joined the debate about concentration camps.

“The agenda in the US is clear: in order to critique the current administration’s policy, a term often associated with Auschwitz and the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust has been appropriated to score a few political points. In a few months there will be a new controversy, and Jewish history will be hijacked again in a US debate to fit the narrative of whatever group needs to conjure up the Nazi era for their own benefit.

Increasingly in the US every day, the Holocaust is watered down and universalized in order to become an American event. Last year the former National Security Agency and CIA head Michael Hayden compared the US separating families at the border to Auschwitz.”

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Wiesenthal Center Calls AOC’s Concentration Camp Remarks ‘Insult to Victims of the Shoah’

When the Wiesenthal Center, Yad Vashem, The Auschwitz Museum etc. are all calling you out as insulting and offensive: it’s time to apologize. She won’t because she is ignorant and an egomaniac with the maturity of an adolescent.

Politics | The "Squad"

Rashida Tlaib slammed by House GOP over statement that Holocaust gives her 'kind of a calming feeling'

House Republican leaders called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to "take action" against Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Sunday after Tlaib said that thinking about the Holocaust gave her "kind of a calming feeling."

It’s a serious challenge to decide who’s the most repellant human: Tlaib or Omar.