Lawyers of Nazi collaborator: Too old, ‘diminished’ to deport from Canada
Lawyers for Helmut Oberlander, a 95-year-old who worked as a translator for Nazi death squads in Ukraine and Russia, claimed last week that their client’s old age and “diminished” mental capabilities should be cause...
Parade in Spain features Nazi costumes, float resembling Auschwitz entrance
A Holocaust-themed parade that took place in Spain recently featured participants dressed as Adolf Hitler and Nazi concentration-camp prisoners.
The display on Feb. 23 in Badajos followed similar processions the same week in Aalst, Belgium and Campo de Criptana, Spain.
During...
Dutch railway employees sing ‘inappropriate’ anti-Semitic song over loudspeaker
Employees of the Dutch national railway company Nederlandse Spoorwegen sang an anti-Semitic soccer chant on Feb. 22 over an inter-city train’s public announcement system.
During a train ride from a parade in the southern city...
Louis Farrakhan: ‘America is No. 1 on the Mahdi’s list to be destroyed’
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Sunday castigated U.S. President Donald Trump for “murdering” his “brother from Iran” Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq last month. Farrakhan added that he had...
Jewish groups hail Bulgaria for preventing annual neo-Nazi march
Jewish organizations commended the Bulgarian government for preventing an annual neo-Nazi march in the country’s capital of Sofia from taking place last weekend.
The annual torch-lit Lukov march is named after Bulgarian Gen. Hristo Lukov,...
After repeated requests, Monaco to open archives on its role in Holocaust
Monaco has agreed to grant the Simon Wiesenthal Center access to its state archives to learn more about the country’s role in the Holocaust, The Jewish Chronicle reported on Monday.
In 1997, the center asked several countries...
UK school textbook removed from sale, asks if Israel was responsible for 9/11 attacks
A secondary-school textbook in the United Kingdom that asked students how Israel might have been responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was removed from sale on Thursday by its publishers, who also...
Ex-priest in Poland indicted on hate speech, Holocaust-denial charges
The District Prosecutor’s Office in the city of Wrocław, Poland, indicted former priest Jacek Miedlar on hate speech and Holocaust-denial charges.
Another charge claimed that he insulted the late Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a Catholic anti-Communist...
Lady Kitty Spencer, Princess Diana’s niece, is reportedly converting to Judaism
Lady Kitty Spencer, the niece of the late Princess Diana of Wales, is converting to Judaism to marry Jewish fashion tycoon Michael Lewis.
It will be the second marriage for Lewis, a South Africa native...
From China to Mexico, Message at Chabad Women’s Banquet Was Love
Two weeks ago to the day, as the COVID-19 coronavirus was rapidly spreading through the Chinese city of Wuhan, Rochel Kalmenson and her husband, Rabbi Yekutiel Kalmenson, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Ningbo, China, and their three young children, boarded...