Posts Tagged: Nazi Germany
Auschwitz Memorial Criticizes Musk’s X for Not Removing Antisemitic Content
The Auschwitz Memorial on Thursday criticized social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, for failing to remove an antisemitic post on the site. X's owner...
Nazism and the Palestinians
JNS.org - In 1921, Herbert Samuel, the British high commissioner of Mandatory Palestine, appointed Haj Amin al-Husseini grand mufti of Jerusalem. It would prove to...
Germany’s Scholz Phones Israeli Premier After Abbas Holocaust Comment
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the Israeli prime minister on Thursday that any attempt to play down or deny the Holocaust was unacceptable, after criticism...
‘The Jews Have Not Surrendered’: Austria Apologizes for Nazi Crimes as Lapid Honors Grandfather Killed at Mauthausen Camp
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer on Thursday apologized on behalf of the Republic to Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid for the crimes committed at the Nazis'...
US Supreme Court Rules Against Holocaust Victims’ Heirs in Nazi-Era Disputes
JNS.org – In a unanimous decision, the US Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday against the heirs of Holocaust victims seeking to recover their families’ art...
German Man Whose Grandfather Acquired Jewish Family’s Store Due to Nazi Persecution Contacts Family’s Israeli Granddaughter to Apologize
A German man whose grandfather acquired a Jewish family’s store on the cheap due to the Nazis’ antisemitic policies has located the family’s descendent in...
German Branch of Catholic Church Admits ‘Complicity’ in World War II
The German branch of the Catholic Church has admitted its “complicity” in World War II, the British newspaper The Times reported on Friday. The “confession of...
Nazis and the Occult
Explanations of Hitler crisscross like tracks in a railroad switch yard. “Functionalist” historians see the Holocaust as moving along a bureaucratic track with inevitable momentum....
Idaho GOP Legislator Slammed for Comparing Coronavirus Restrictions to Nazi Persecution
An Idaho state legislator was under fire on Monday for remarks she made in a media interview that compared coronavirus restrictions on individual movement to...
Jewish Predicaments: 1939 and 2019
The American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, not noted as a political thinker, nevertheless knew something about political paradoxes. Fitzgerald wrote: “The test of a first-rate...
Pro-Israel Groups Slam Omar Comparing BDS to Boycotts of Nazi Germany, Soviet Union
JNS.org - Pro-Israel groups denounced US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for comparing the anti-Israel BDS movement to previous boycotts of Nazi Germany and the Soviet...
Canadian Political Candidate Ejected for Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany
JNS.org - A candidate for the Canadian Parliament has been ejected from her party for previous anti-Israel comments, including comparing the Jewish state to Nazi...
France’s Eldest Auschwitz Survivor Dies, Aged 101
Henriette Cohen, France's oldest survivor of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp, has died. She was 101. Cohen stayed silent about the horrors she lived through at...
Trump Climate Adviser: ‘Demonization’ of Carbon Dioxide Akin to ‘Demonization of Jews Under Hitler’
JNS.org - US President Donald Trump climate adviser William Happer once compared the “demonization of carbon dioxide” to how Jews were treated under Adolf Hitler in...
