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Former President Barack Obama admitted Friday that it had been a “mistake” not to support Iranian democracy protesters in 2009, when they rose up against their tyrannical regime in what was called the “Green Revolution.” At the time, Obama chose to remain quiet about the protests, as he hoped to preserve the regime, and the administration of radical, Holocaust-denying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the hope of pursuing negotiations toward a deal on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

On this date in 1943, a special transport of 1,196 children and 53 adults arrived at Auschwitz and were gassed shortly thereafter. Thus ended one of the lesser-known tragedies of the Holocaust. The children were very nearly the last survivors of the Bialystok Ghetto, which had been liquidated in August 1943. Almost all of the inhabitants of the ghetto wound up being sent to the Treblinka Extermination Camp and killed, but over a thousand children were mysteriously separated from their parents and taken away for some as-yet-unknown purpose. (The transport list can be found here.) At the time, there were...

If you’re going to make a documentary film about America’s response to the Holocaust, shouldn’t you at least know how many Jewish refugees were admitted to the United States during those years? Surprisingly, filmmaker Ken Burns appears to be unaware of that basic information—or is for some reason seeking to misrepresent the facts. Burns has announced that his forthcoming film will challenge the “myth” that President Franklin D. Roosevelt abandoned Europe’s Jews. That remarkable assertion flies in the face of the historical record that numerous scholars have thoroughly documented. Nonetheless, in recent interviews, Burns has claimed that during the Roosevelt...

What was an Orthodox Jewish man doing working for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arguably the world’s most vocal antisemite?17 when Orthodox Jewish lobbyist Nicholas Muzin was paid millions of dollars to lobby for the Emir of Qatar to introduce him to the leaders of right-wing pro-Israel organizations, in an effort to curry favor with a Qatar-weary Donald Trump. Some of the most important right-wing activists for Israel were later ensnared in the controversy, exposed by national media outlets and in a huge investigative story by The Wall Street Journal. All said that they were traveling to Doha for Israel, even as,...

Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, Executive Director of Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), expressed concern over the population density in Israel and called for a drop in the country's birthrate. In an interview with Yediot Aharonot, Trajtenberg said, "When I look ahead, I see a future that is blacker than black." He noted that according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2020 there were nearly 9.3 million people living in Israel, and this number grows by nearly 2% each year. "We are living in the third most densely populated country among OECD countries,...

“The relationship between Norway and Israel,” wrote Trond Ellingsen the other day at Document, Norway’s leading alternative news website, “is now at a historically low level.” We’ll get around to the reason in a minute, but first let’s just note that that’s saying a lot, given that antisemitism on a very profound level goes back a long way in the exquisite land of the fjords. The Norwegian Constitution, drafted in 1814, originally contained this sentence: “Jews are still excluded from admission to the kingdom.” Knut Hamsun, probably Norway’s most illustrious novelist, was a Nazi. During World War II, it...

A Boston grandmother has been fined $2.1million by the IRS for failing to report $4.2million in a Swiss bank account given to her by her Jewish father who fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s. Monica Toth's father, a successful businessman, opened the account shortly before his death in 1999 in case his daughter ever needed to flee the country to escape persecution as he did. Her father was traumatized by his family's experience of escaping Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s, when he relocated to Argentina, where his daughter was born, according to Reason. 'Like many who fled Germany or later...

Yesterday, in an interview with the Khabar Sports newspaper, Mohammad Ali Geraei, the world wrestling champion, talked about his love for Zlatan, Muhammad Ali, the legend of boxing and Esteghlal Club, and in a part of his speech, he mentioned "Hitler" as his legend among all the people in the world. He introduced the title of someone who had "great thoughts" in his head!

The spirits in Germany still haven't calmed down after Abu Mazen's words in Berlin - and in Munich there was an anti-Semitic incident: a security man saluted an Israeli delegation in the Olympic village in Munich. It happened when members of the Israeli delegation to the European Athletics Championships arrived at the memorial site in memory of the 11 Martyrs. A security man of Arab origin encountered them on the bridge that connects the village and the Olympic stadium, waved his hand high - and a policeman accompanying the Israeli team arrested him on the spot. The suspect, a German...

Graffiti with a swastika in the Old City of Jerusalem 1936 The Old City of Jerusalem, a view of the Dormition Abbey, Jaffa Gate, Zion Gate, Guest embryos Looking at the Graffiti of a swastika and the inscription Hitler in English on a stone wall. Old City alleys, Policemen patrol the place. (From the Sherman Greenberg film collection) [Jan 1, 1936]https://jfc.org.il/news_journal/112166-2/114002-2/[Note:Hitler spelled Hiteler and the swastika spray painted at Zion gate. Beneath, the Star of David is deleted. Hence, done by Arabs]

1. The sweeping under the carpet of: a. His own involvement in the 1972 Munich massacre. b. And the Neo-Nazi Palestinian corporation at the 1972 crime. 2. Belitting the Holocaust, part of Abu Mazen's own long history of Holocaust denial since the 1980s, at least. 3. Attempts to rewrite history of: a. The Arab massacre of Jews in 1920, 1921, 1929, 1938, 1947; the massacres by Fedayeen in the 1950s (which Adolf Eichmann assisted in weapons supplies). b. Arab Palestinians, pro-Hitler as German official reported in 1937; in that year 'All' of Palestine celebrated Muhamnad's birthday with flying Nazi swastika...

"Palestinian" large FB group in Turkey posts swastika carved skull of Elad Haredi victim and calls the axe brutality butchery: the "Operation" Reminder: Haredim, overwhelmingly avoid inscription in the army. The attack: Three killed in axe stabbing spree in Haredi city in central Israel - Ynetnews May 5, 2022 —At least 4 more injured in attack carried out by 2 terrorists in predominately ultra-Orthodox Elad. * _____ THE PALESTINIAN FB GROUP IN TURKEY: "All about the news of Turkey and the Palestinians in Turkey" Filistinliner Palestinians Filistinliler الفلسطينيين‎, ‎إسطنبول‎. 10488 likes · 7 talking about this · 4 were here....

Jewish leaders opposed the sale, calling it “an abhorrence” in an open letterDespite fierce objections from Jewish leaders, a Maryland auction house has sold a wristwatch believed to have belonged to Adolf Hitler for $1.1 million. Alexander Historical Auctions, based in Chesapeake City, Maryland, sold the controversial artifact to an anonymous buyer on July 28, per the company’s website. The auction house also sold other Nazi-related items, including a golden eagle from Hitler’s bedroom, several of the genocidal dictator’s sketches and paintings and a dress that belonged to Eva Braun, Hitler’s wife. Report an ad Auction house officials believe Hitler...

The Democrats seem to be in a contest for who can come up with the dumbest, most absurd ideas for handling the China Virus. The latest comes from failed Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who I once had a tiny amount of respect for. Yang took to twitter to announce his stupidity by suggesting that we use barcodes to identify Americans who have been vaccinated. Brilliant!

Former Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang proposed a “barcode” program Friday for Americans to prove they have received a coronavirus vaccination. “Is there a way for someone to easily show that they have been vaccinated – like a barcode they can download on their phone? There ought to be,” Yang wrote on Twitter. “Tough to have mass gatherings like concerts or ballgames without either mass adoption of the vaccine or a means of signaling,” he continued.

Vera Sharav was only 3 years old when her world collapsed.She and her family were chased out of Romania and herded into a concentration camp in Ukraine during World War II, where they were left to wait, and starve.“The cloud of death was always there,” Sharav told The Epoch Times.Weekly, a list determined who would be sent where; whether it be a death or slave labor camp, she said.While at the camp, she said her father died of typhus when she was 5, which had been widespread throughout the camps because of the cold and malnutrition.After three years at the...

Jewish community representatives voice alarm after Hungarian leader Viktor Orban spoke out against creating “peoples of mixed-race.” In a speech in Romania’s Transylvania region, which has a large Hungarian community, the 59-year-old ultra-conservative prime minister criticized mixing with “non-Europeans.” Terming Orban’s speech “stupid and dangerous,” the International Auschwitz Committee calls on the EU to continue to distance itself from “Orban’s racist undertones and to make it clear to the world that a Mr. Orban has no future in Europe.”

A Rhode Island sports bar apologized on Monday after sharing a meme on Facebook making light of Anne Frank’s death at the hand of the Nazis. “It’s hotter than an oven out there… and I should know,” read the Atlantic Sports and Bar’s Friday post over a picture of teenage German-Dutch diarist Anne Frank, who was killed by the Nazis in 1945. The post was seeking to make a joke about the heatwave rolling through Rhode Island. The restaurant came under immediate criticism from social media users, some of whom called for a boycott of the restaurant until it issued...

Beginning in 2014, when the Maidan uprising brought a new government to Ukraine, the country has been erecting monuments to Nazi collaborators and Holocaust perpetrators at an astounding pace — there’s been a new plaque or street renaming nearly every week. Because of this, the Ukraine section represents an extremely partial listing of the several hundred monuments, statues, and streets named after Nazi collaborators in Ukraine. L’viv and Ivano-Frankivsk — 1.5 million Jews, a quarter of all Jews murdered in the Holocaust, came from Ukraine. Over the past six years, the country has been institutionalizing worship of the paramilitary Organization...

How the pope failed the Jews in the HolocaustA new book sets out damning evidence about the conduct of Pope Pius XII during the Second World War Julie CarbonaraBY Julie Carbonara June 30, 2022 09:06 Timid: Pope Pius XII (Photo: Getty Images)Pope Pius XII, who presided over the Catholic Church during the Second World War, has always divided opinion: was he a Nazi sympathiser who did little to save the Jews? Or has he been wrongly vilified? Only the documentation hidden away in the Vatican archives could provide a definite answer. It looked as if the truth would remain buried...