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The legal heirs of a German Jewish banker who was forced to sell his art collection to avoid persecution by the Nazis are suing a Japanese holding company to reclaim ownership of a painting by Vincent van Gogh. Three heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, based in New York and Germany, filed a lawsuit on December 13 in an Illinois district court against Sompo Holdings, an insurance company based in Japan, to dispute its legal title to the painting Sunflowers (1888). The claim states that Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was a “casualty” of Nazi-era policies and economic sanctions that forced him to sell his...

The court ruled to forcibly vaccinate Holocaust survivor Inna Zhvanetskaya and then commit her to a psychiatric ward. A court in the German city of Stuttgart, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, is seeking to force COVID-19 vaccinations for an 85-year-old Jewish composer and a Holocaust survivor, sparking outrage among German journalists and one Jewish community leader. A regional court has overruled the decision. Austrian-based German-language website Report24 first reported on Tuesday of the case of Holocaust survivor Inna Zhvanetskaya. She was born in Ukraine in 1937. Holger Fischer, the attorney for Zhvanetskaya, said on his Telegram account on Thursday that...

We reported earlier about how Joe Biden had finally gotten around to making plans to go to the border.Biden also made remarks about the border, with Kamala Harris trying to hold it together while standing behind him. The remarks were just a confused mess. Biden didn’t seem to have any idea what he was talking about. He didn’t know what “CBP” stands for, that it is Title 8 that applies to immigration, or that Title 42 has helped to prevent the situation at the border from getting much worse.His “plan” seems to be an app that would help people who...

Let's stipulate: George Santos running for Congress on a carpet of lies is beneath contempt. As Tulsi Gabbard, subbing for Tucker Carlson, said to him: "do you have no shame?" But that doesn't mean that the Democrats, with a big helping hand from the liberal media, won't try to exploit the situation for their political gain.And so it was that Morning Joe was only too glad to play its part today. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

President praises Mohammed V, who made North African country into a safe haven from Nazi persecution during World War II, thanks current monarch for supporting community, educationPresident Isaac Herzog thanked Morocco’s King Mohammed VI in a letter on Tuesday for his country’s provision of a “safe haven” for Jews during the Holocaust. The letter — marking two years since Morocco normalized ties with Israel — was the first occasion an Israeli state official has paid tribute to the Holocaust-era actions of Morocco’s monarch at the time, according to the presidency. Herzog expressed Israel’s gratitude to the king “and the people...

Whoopi Goldberg has once again apologized for her comments claiming that the Holocaust was “not about race.” A rep for the 67-year-old provided a statement to The Post on Tuesday, just days after a recent interview in which she reiterated the same Holocaust slur that got her suspended from “The View” last February. “My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race,’” Goldberg had told the Sunday Times of London.

After Goldberg said the Holocaust "wasn't originally" about race in a new interview published Saturday, Jewish leaders condemned the remarks as historically inaccurate and offensive.Whoopi Goldberg is facing a fresh round of backlash following her latest historically inaccurate statement about the Holocaust, which she claimed "wasn't originally" about race in an interview with the U.K. newspaper The Sunday Times. The controversy marks the second time this year that Goldberg, 67, has come under fire for what Jewish leaders and Holocaust experts say are inaccurate and offensive comments about the Nazi-sponsored mass murder of six million European Jews between 1933 and...

After causing an uproar the first time around, comedian and TV host Whoopi Goldberg again claimed the Holocaust was not racial in nature but was an example of “white on white” violence, because both Nazis and Jews are white people. Goldberg was suspended from her job co-hosting “The View” for two weeks earlier this year over similar remarks during one episode.

Whoopi Goldberg has once again claimed that the Holocaust was not about race, insisting the Nazis 'were not killing racial' and repeating the argument that saw her suspended in February from her $8 million-a-year role hosting talk show The View. The Oscar-winning actress was suspended from The View in February for saying the Holocaust was not about race, but rather 'white on white' violence and 'man's inhumanity to man' - and the interviewer was told in advance not to discuss the chat show. Yet Goldberg readily repeated her controversial comments, when it was pointed out that the Nazis certainly believed...

ROME — Pope Francis employed his strongest rhetoric to date Wednesday in condemning Russia’s war on Ukraine, tying it to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people during World War II. In a greeting to Polish pilgrims following his weekly General Audience, the pontiff recalled that last Monday, the Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations at the Catholic University of Lublin commemorated the anniversary of Operation Reinhardt, codename for the secret Nazi plan in 1941-1943 to annihilate Polish Jews in German-occupied Poland. “During the Second World War, it caused the extermination of almost two million victims, mainly of Jewish origin,” the pope...

Alyssa Farah Griffin told her co-hosts Friday on ABC’s “The View” that the Holocaust “could happen again” if rapper Kanye West, white supremacist Nick Fuentes, and InfoWars host Alex Jones had platforms. Co-host Joy Behar said, “So yesterday Kanye West found a safe space for his antisemitism when he was interviewed by conspiracy theorist and all-around awful person Alex Jones. West showed up in some kind of bondage hood and proclaimed his love for Hitler and the Nazis.” Griffin said, “I watched clips of the live stream, and I hate that these people even have a platform. And I kept...

Critics erupt after Whoopi Goldberg questions whether Hamas, Taliban are terrorists. Critics erupt after Whoopi Goldberg questions whether Hamas, Taliban are terrorists After a co-host on The View called the two groups out as terrorists, Goldberg said, “Depends on who you talk to.” Israel, Canada, the EU, Japan, Australia and the UK – besides the U.S. – have all designated Hamas as a terrorist organization. Critics leaped onto social media to slam Goldberg’s equivocation. Andrew Ghalili, a foreign policy analyst for the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) tweeted, “???? One host on The View says that Hamas...

Book [In Hebrew]: 'The Mufti and the Jews – The Involvement of Haj Amin al-Husseini in the Holocaust and His War on the Jews of the Arab Countries 1935-1946'Jan 15, 2021The mufti and the Jews - the involvement of Haj Amin Al-Husani in the Holocaust and his war against the Jews of the Arab countries 1935-1946 with Dr. Edi Cohen.EXCERPT FROM DR. COHEN'S INTERVIEW: I will explain ahead, how he caused the deaths of thousands. He was against all Jews, but mainly against Jews among the Arabs, not necessarily specifically to Palestine. He wanted to be the (Arabic: زَعيم /...

Issa Nakhleh (self) published a year before his death, in 2002, his authored book: Holy [Nakhleh's word] Islam Authoritative Quotations from the Holy [Nakhleh's word] Quran and the Hadith (saying of the [Nakhleh's word] Prophet [Nakhleh's word] Muhammad) on the Principles and Precepts of Islam. Issa Nakhleh, 2002 * * * His long hate career since 1947. First at the UN, then in Argentina, then back to NY. Heading the so called Palestine Arab Delegation he was also council to Muslim Congress. 'Anti-Jewish Activities of the Arabs In Argentine', DAIA, April 1958, pp. 18-19. * (PDF). Chapter V The...

After the Nets star on Thursday tweeted a link to “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” a 2018 film that is filled with anti-Semitic disinformation, he began to receive blowback from his employers on Friday. A Rolling Stone story cited the film’s statements, including claims that “many famous high-ranking Jews” have “admitted” to “worship[ing] Satan or Lucife.” The report called the film “venomously anti-Semitic.” “I am an OMNIST and I meant no disrespect to anyone’s religious beliefs,” Irving posted to Twitter on Saturday afternoon. “The ‘Anti-Semitic’ label that is being pushed on me is not justified and does not...

Full transparency, this editor HOPES Susan Sarandon understands that the one party controlling the media, message, truth, censoring speech, silencing opposition, and dividing citizens into us and them is literally the Democrats and that she is calling them out for this type of behavior … And knowing her history with mainstream Democrats we think this is a fair assumption. Heck, she came out against Hillary Clinton and they STILL haven’t forgiven her for that. Do we think this makes her a Republican? No. But do we think she’s onto the Democrats and has been for a while? Yes. pic.twitter.com/dYOljrvl2X —...

German sources for (estimated population of) 17 Million Jews before the Holocaust, before the 1944 (Hitler's) Mufti inciting Arabs against the remaining 11 Million.German source in 1924: Wirth, Albrecht. Weltgeschichte der Gegenwart (1879-1924). Germany: G. Westermann, 1924. p. 425. [Dem stelle man die Semiten mit schätzungsweise 45 Millionen , wovon 17 Millionen Juden.] Put the Semites with an estimated 45 million, of which 17 million Jews...Nazi German book in 1938: "Forschungen zur Judenfrage," Vol. 3, 1938, p. 156:: [Um das Jahr 1937 lebten auf der Erde insgesamt rund 17 Millionen Juden. Davon entfallen über 10 Millionen oder rund drei Fünftel...

Actress Susan Sarandon, an ardent leftist during her professional life who routinely retweets other ardent leftists, posted a message on social media akin to the message that actress Gina Carano posted in early 2021 that got her canceled. In early 2021, Carano, then starring in Disney’s “The Mandalorian,” posted a message on Instagram to illustrate her feelings about the hate directed toward political conservatives. She posted a photo with the caption: Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to...

Ken Burns’ The US and the Holocaust underplayed Peter Bergson’s role in the creation of the War Refuge Board, which is said to have saved 200,000 European Jews. Burns’ documentary, whether for ideological reasons or willful ignorance treated Bergson’s role as an afterthought. On the other hand, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Bergson’s nemesis received positive attention in Burns’ documentary. Yet, it was Stephen Wise who told the antisemitic State Department to hold off on distributing Gerhard Riegner’s report of the German Nazis systematic murder of Jews in Europe until he could verify it! It was pretty clear then, in 1943, that...

Focusing on America’s failures to save more Jews in the Holocaust unintentionally strengthens the forces that would threaten Jews today. Here’s how.Among those excited by the announcement that America’s leading documentary filmmaker had produced a three-part series on the Holocaust were sectors of the Jewish community that have long insisted on the need for all Americans to learn about this subject. Who better suited for this task than Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, known for their well-crafted, carefully researched historical projects? Not only could they be expected to produce a reliable—if not definitive—treatment of the extermination of the...