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Holocaust inversion is going mainstream

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Cynthia Nixon, John Oliver, Chef José Andrés. An award-winning writer with an essay in The London Review of Books. Protesters outside the Nova exhibit in Manhattan. Celebrities, faux-academics, and activists. These are some of the people...

WJC announces new tech institute and report on AI-fueled Holocaust denial

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The World Jewish Congress (WJC) has stepped up efforts to counter the rising threats from artificial intelligence to inflame online hate. On Tuesday, the organization announced the WJC Institute for Technology and Human Rights, along with its first...
American actress Roseanne Barr speaks during a conference in Jerusalem on January 27, 2019. Photo: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90

Roseanne, speak the truth about the Holocaust

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The media is reporting that my friend Roseanne Barr said on a podcast that no Jews died in the Holocaust. I have not talked with Roseanne. I find it hard to believe that someone who...
Terezija Gras (left) and Sara Lustig, co-chairs of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Credit: Courtesy.

Antisemitism ‘working definition’ not a ‘work in progress,” new IHRA co-presidents say

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The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is in the news a good deal these days. The intergovernmental organization is best known for its working definition of antisemitism, which many nations and institutions have adopted. Pro-Israel supporters...
Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt

This is a case for the US antisemitism envoy

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It’s one thing when an antisemite makes an ugly speech on a street corner or an antisemitic conspiracy theorist spouts his hate in some dark corner of the Internet. But what happens when the...
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Credit: Pixabay.

Germany’s far-right comes to Yad Vashem

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Ever since its foundation in 1953 by an act of the Knesset, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem has served admirably as Israel’s national memorial to the Holocaust. Millions of visitors have passed through its doors,...
Jewish Children’s Monument, with names of 400 Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, at the site of a former Jewish school in The Hague. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

Dutch survey: 10% of history teachers have Holocaust-denying students

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The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, which is nearly 65 years old, is consistently one of the most visited museums in the Netherlands. Yet public-school teachers report an alarming rate of Holocaust denial among...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog delivers an address at Yad Vashem on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jerusalem, April 17, 2023. Credit: Kobi Gideon/Government Press Office.

Holocaust remembrance and inexcusable hyperbole

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During his Holocaust Remembrance Day speech on Monday night at Yad Vashem, Israeli President Isaac Herzog admonished the public never to invoke the genocide of the Jews in any context other than the Shoah itself. This was...
Lithuanians massacre Jews at the Lietūkis garage during the Kaunas pogrom, June 27, 1941. Credit: Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum.

Holocaust,Shoah,Yom Hashoah,World War II,Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Holocaust distortion and trivialization and banalization are on the rise around the globe, even as outright denial is relegated to the fringes of society, the head of Yad Vashem says. The remarks come at a...
Gene Simmons, bassist and co-lead singer of the rock band KISS; and his wife Shannon Tweed-Simmons, visit the Pentagon meeting with members of the Joint Staff including Air Force Gen. Paul J. Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Army Command Sgt. Maj. John W. Troxell, Senior Enlisted Advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, May 16, 2019. Credit: DoD Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Gene Simmons of Kiss fame to unveil mural of Polish Catholic Holocaust hero

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Artists 4 Israel is expanding its series of murals honoring Righteous Among the Nations. It’s doing so with a “kiss” this time. The collective, which enlists artists to combat antisemitism and anti-Israel bigotry through their work,...