Tag: Holocaust Denial
Social media and the hate-speech slippery slope
Someone I know once told me that if his elderly mother ever wound up on Facebook, it would mean one of two possible things had happened: Either the social-media giant had become passé or...
International legal group works to remove Holocaust-denial content on Facebook
The Lawfare Project filed take-down notices this week against Facebook posts denying the Holocaust and containing anti-Semitic material, successfully leading to several posts being removed or blocked by Facebook in a number of countries.
The...
British blogger gets prison sentence for anti-Semitic posts and Holocaust denial
A British blogger found guilty of broadcasting anti-Semitic songs on YouTube and of waging a Holocaust-denial campaign has been convicted and given a two-year suspended prison sentence. She has also been banned from posting...
Kuwaiti cleric Sheikh JIhad Al-‘Ayesh denies the Holocaust and the existence of gas chambers:...
Kuwaiti cleric Sheikh Jihad Al-‘Ayesh delivered a speech in which he said that the figure of six million Jews killed in the Holocaust was a “historical lie,” but that Hitler “knew the truth about...
Abbas on the Holocaust, European Jews as usurers, says Hitler made a deal with...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas said that the massacres to which European Jews were subjected—from the 11th century until the Holocaust—were not because they were Jews, but because of their function in society.
“The anti-Jewish...
In speech, Abbas advances blood libels, says Israel ‘has nothing to do with Judaism’
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas utilized a rare meeting of the Palestinian National Council to give a long speech arguing against Jewish history in the Land of Israel and blaming Jewish “social behavior” for...
Jordanian daily: Trump and Netanyahu are worse than Hitler; Possible some deeds attributed to...
In his January 17, 2018 column in the Al-Ghad daily, headed “How Are Trump and Netanyahu Any Different from Hitler?” Jihad Al-Mansi claimed that “the behavior of Trump and Netanyahu is much worse than anything...
Holocaust denial on PA TV: The Jews colluded with Hitler in the ‘false Holocaust’
During an interview on the official Palestinian Authority TV channel, Palestinian writer and political analyst Hani Abu Zeid said: “They used to cry about the false Holocaust in the days of Hitler, the...
Egyptian journalist: ‘Scope of the Holocaust is just a rumor’
Egyptian journalist Dr. Hoda Zakariya, a lecturer on political sociology, said that while “there was some persecution of the Jews by Hitler,” the scope of the Holocaust is a “well-known historical rumor.”
Speaking on the...
Outrage in Israel as Polish PM suggests Jews were perpetrators in Holocaust
In an ongoing dispute over the passage of a Polish law criminalizing any terms linking Poland to the heinous crimes of the Holocaust, Israeli officials expressed outrage Saturday night following remarks by Polish Prime...