There should be no place in Lithuania for any glorification of Holocaust participants, especially with anti-Semitism currently on the rise in the world, the newly-appointed US ambassador to the Baltic state has told local media. The thorny issue of suspected war criminals being honored as heroic freedom fighters in modern …
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Israel should not think that the suffering of Jews during World War II gives it free rein in foreign policy, particularly when it comes to the hostilities in Gaza, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Speaking at a press conference on the results of Moscow’s diplomacy in 2023 on …
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has denounced a remark from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Israel had perpetrated multiple “holocausts” against Palestinians. Scholz had come under fire for failing to challenge Abbas’ accusations during their joint press conference in Berlin on Tuesday. “I am disgusted by the outrageous remarks made by …
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Belgian broadcaster VRT has apologized for using a Holocaust movie to ridicule locals complaining about food shortages – reportedly caused by the conflict in Ukraine – after Jewish groups complained. The Flemish-language network had used a concentration camp scene from ‘Schindler’s List’ to satirize media reports about a popular cookie …
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President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Israel for not doing enough to help Kiev battle Russian forces during an address to the country’s parliament on Sunday. His attempt to evoke the specter of the Holocaust and draw comparisons with the Russian offensive in Ukraine triggered a harsh pushback from Israeli lawmakers. In …
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UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said on Saturday that issues like the recent controversial Netflix comedy special by Jimmy Carr, who joked about the Nazis killing Roma, could “very shortly” be addressed in a new legislation that would “bring into scope” the types of comments allowed to be broadcast. Speaking …
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‘The View’ co-host Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from the show for two weeks after she sparked outrage by suggesting that the Holocaust was not about race. In a memo to staffers on Tuesday, ABC News President Kimberly Godwin announced that Goldberg had been suspended “effective immediately” for making the “misinformed, …
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‘The View’ co-host Whoopi Goldberg apologized for claiming that the Holocaust was “not about race,” and instead about “man’s inhumanity to man.” Goldberg sparked controversy after she said on Monday’s episode of ‘The View’ that “the Holocaust isn’t about race.” “No, it’s not about race… It’s about man’s inhumanity to …
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Katarzyna Markusz, who writes for the Jewish Telegraph Agency and runs the news and culture website Jewish.pl, is due to appear for questioning next week at the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), a Polish state research body that investigates crimes against the Polish nation committed between 1917 and 1990. According …
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The Nazi flag was flown from a window of the neighboring UniLodge student housing complex downtown. The vice president of the Queensland Jewish Board Deputies, Jason Steinberg, told AAP that synagogue-goers noticed the swastika on Saturday morning. The flag was removed after police arrived at the scene, and a 45-year-old local …
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