Most Clicked This Week
- "Israel-US dialogue is necessary about Iran’s nuclear program, since a good agreement with Iran is a clear Israeli interest. But Israel must be prepared with a military option against Iran, as a last resort"
- "Military, defense minister believe a credible threat of an Israeli attack on Tehran’s nuclear facilities is only way US will be able to negotiate better deal with Islamic Republic"
- EVENT Israel Bonds Chicago with The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
- Heard in Jerusalem: "Hasbara" has become something resembling a dirty word
- "Those experiences gave Thomas the fortitude to do something truly courageous: risk her friendships, face her misconceptions, and change her mind"
- EVENT 2nd Annual Kosher Chicago BBQ Festival Competition to benefit Maot Chitim
- 6 European countries join forces to do business with Iran (and throw Israel under the bus)
- "President Joe Biden's Iran policy was conceived and is being implemented by the same people who negotiated the JCPOA under Obama, who argued in favor of empowering Iran"
Tag Archives: Holocaust
Yad Vashem defends removal of historic picture of Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini
BREITBART ZOA Accuses Holocaust Museum of ‘Appalling’ Censorship of Palestinian Mufti Ties to Hitler by Joshua Klein December 5, 2021 Following a published letter by the head of “Yad Vashem” — Israel’s premiere Holocaust museum and research center — defending … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Adolf Hitler, Dani Dayan, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Holocaust, Morton Klein, Mufti, Palestinian, Yad Vashem, ZOA
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“Traditionalists chafe at the contemporary-art approach to Holocaust commemoration being employed at Babyn Yar, a site of mass shootings in World War II. But it has brought visitors for an anniversary”
NEW YORK TIMES A Tech-Savvy Holocaust Memorial in Ukraine Draws Critics and Crowds by Maria Varenikova and Andrew E. Kramer October 8, 2021 An advertisement on the Ukrainian-language version of Tinder, the online dating platform, offered a not-so-romantic experience. “Touch … Continue reading
“While the law does not mention Jews, the Holocaust or World War II, it ensures that an administrative decision rendered more than 30 years ago could no longer be challenged”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Will Polish anti-restitution law permanently harm ties with Israel, Jewish community? by Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS and ILH Staff August 18, 2021 Despite international pressure to veto the bill, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a … Continue reading
U.S. Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, one of five American Righteous Among the Nations, never spoke about the 200 Jews he saved
TABLET MAG ‘We Are All Jews Here’ by Patrick Henry May 27, 2021 …It was German policy to single out Jewish POWs and send them to extermination or slave labor camps. Accordingly, in January 1945, the Germans announced that all … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, Germany, Holocaust, Nazis, Roddie Edmonds
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“Four factors have gradually legitimized honest regional discussion of the Holocaust and made traditional statements of denial and distortion less acceptable”
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY The Crumbling Walls of Arab Holocaust Denial by Robert Satloff April 8, 2021 Nearly 20 years ago, I moved with my family to live in Rabat, Morocco, and set out on a journey to … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Holocaust, Holocaust Denial
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“Speaking at the state ceremony at Yad Vashem, President Reuven Rivlin called on Israelis to embrace Holocaust survivors as they struggle with their old age and the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with memorial events, 2-minute siren by Yori Yalon April 7, 2021 Events for the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day got underway on Wednesday evening at a state ceremony at … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Holocaust, Reuven Rivlin, Y, Yad Vashem
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“Contrary to Stanisław Żaryn’s excuses, no reputable historian believes that ‘the Polish nation’ was responsible for Nazi German crimes in Poland. Which is why the Polish government should leave the writing of history to historians”
TABLET MAG The Polish Government’s Holocaust ‘Truth Campaign’ Is a Weird Mix of Authoritarianism, Ignorance, and Injured Pride by Havi Dreifuss February 25, 2021 …[Poland’s] new law deputized the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN)—a central institution with state-sponsored prosecution powers—to … Continue reading
“A Holocaust survivor tells a fellow shopper she only eats that jam because company’s owners saved her family from the Nazis, but secretive French family isn’t commenting”
FORWARD Is Bonne Maman the anti-Nazi jam? The internet wants to think so by Gabe Friedman and Philissa Cramer February 18, 2021 The heartwarming story has been hard to miss: A law professor is shopping at his local grocery store … Continue reading
#Holocaust remembrance: “Participants from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Saudi Arabia joined viewers from North America, Europe and Israel in more personal kind of diplomacy”
JNS In a first, Arab-initiated event commemorates the Holocaust in wake of Abraham Accords by Eliana Rudee January 27, 2021 In the wake of the Abraham Accords and in honor of International Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27, individuals from … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, Bahrain, Holocaust, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
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Boca Raton school board “received thousands of comments from Holocaust survivors all over the world”
SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL Principal fired for second time over Holocaust remarks by Scott Travis November 2, 2020 A principal’s reluctance to say the Holocaust was real — leading to a two-year saga that inflamed his Jewish community and people … Continue reading