Liberal Democrat peer Jenny Tonge has resigned from her party after she was suspended for hosting a House of Lords meeting where guests heard that Jews were accountable for their own fate during the Holocaust.
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TEL AVIV – The European Union’s commissioner for human rights called on the organization to stop ignoring the rise in anti-Semitism on the continent and to use the Holocaust as a reminder of the dangers posed by complacency.
The Labour party in Britain continues to make headlines, with its leader Jeremy Corbyn promoting a lawmaker who seemingly compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Arabs to the Holocaust.
Yisrael Kristal, a Holocaust survivor living in Israel and the world’s oldest man at 113-year-old, celebrated this past weekend his bar mitzva, according to CNN.
The German government on Friday told the Philippine ambassador that comments by President Rodrigo Duterte likening his deadly crime war to Hitler’s efforts to exterminate Jews were “unacceptable”.
A former SS medic who served at the Auschwitz death camp has gone on trial in the northern German city of Neubrandenburg, although questions remain about whether the 95-year-old is fit enough for the proceedings to continue.
On Friday, the remaining 280 members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) — also known as the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) — who were stationed in Camp Liberty (Hurriya) in Iraq were relocated to Albania, officially closing the camp which was a place of refuge for the dissidents against the Iranian regime since the 1980s.
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has rejected an invitation from Labour’s sister party in Israel to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, citing a busy schedule for the snub.
TEL AVIV – The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement doesn’t want “a better Israel, they want no Israel at all,” one of the world’s leading Holocaust experts told a London audience on Tuesday night.
SYDNEY — Leaflets distributed at Australian universities claiming that the Holocaust never happened have been referred to university authorities for investigation and led to calls for tougher action against racism on university campuses.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s embassy in Berlin lambasted the city of Oldenburg teachers union over a call to completely boycott the Jewish state in the first such incident since the Holocaust, the Jerusalem Post reported.
German author and Holocaust revisionist Ursula Haverbeck, age 87, was sentenced to serve eight months in jail after claiming that no Jews were murdered in Auschwitz.
TEL AVIV – Dozens of brains and other body parts were discovered at the Max Planck Psychiatric Institute in Munich, Germany, when the building was undergoing renovations.
TEL AVIV – Jewish spiritual leader and outreach pioneer Esther Jungreis passed away on Tuesday evening at the age of 80.
TEL AVIV – A Czech tour bus advertising Nazi death camp Auschwitz as an attractive holiday destination has been slammed by Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors.
TEL AVIV – A teacher at a Catholic high school in Belgium won an award and cash prize for Iran’s Holocaust cartoon contest, receiving praise from her colleagues who said they were proud of her.
Germany’s top Nazi hunter has identified four men and four women suspected of serving as guards, secretaries and telephone operators at a concentration camp near Gdansk, and prosecutors will examine if they can be charged as accomplices to murder.
TEL AVIV – News of a statement by the Defense Ministry slamming President Barack Obama for the Iran deal took Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by surprise, his aide told U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro on Friday.
Israel for decades has been purchasing gas masks from the same German suppliers that once supplied protective equipment to Nazi soldiers operating the gas chambers in Auschwitz and other death camps during the Holocaust.
WARSAW – The family of the late Jewish-Polish protagonist of Oscar-winning Holocaust film “The Pianist” said Monday they had won an appeal against defamation over claims in a book that he was a Nazi collaborator.
As part of his weeklong trip to Poland for World Youth Day, Pope Francis has announced he will be visiting the Auschwitz extermination camp this Friday, where Nazi soldiers put to death over a million prisoners, most of them Jews.
One man is 101 years old. Others are in their 80s and 90s and arrived in wheelchairs, with a walker, or leaning on children who are themselves past middle age for support .
There is nothing even remotely comparable to Nazism in American politics today. Trump’s nationalism is strongly state-centered.
TEL AVIV – The German government will increase funding for Holocaust survivors all over the world by $600 million over the next three years, the largest single increase to date.
Israel’s 1976 operation to rescue over 100 hostages from terrorist hijackers in Entebbe proved to the world that Jews were “powerless no more,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Monday, speaking at the Ugandan airfield where his brother Yonatan was killed during the legendary raid 40 years ago.
The death of World War Two concentration camp survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was mourned on Sunday by admirers worldwide who honored his life-long fight for millions of Holocaust victims.
Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, has died, Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem said on Saturday.
Almost 30 minutes of legendary comedian and filmmaker Jerry Lewis’ long-hidden Holocaust drama, The Day the Clown Cried, has surfaced online in a rough edit format pulled from footage of a German documentary about the 1972 original movie.
A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was convicted on Friday of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people, at the end of what is likely to be one of Germany’s last Holocaust trials.
A German court is due to rule Friday in the mass murder case of a former Auschwitz SS guard, more than 70 years after the end of World War II.
Actress Helen Mirren testified Tuesday in front of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in support of a bill that would make it easier to facilitate the return of artwork stolen by the Nazis in World War II to the works’ original owners.
The Times of Israel reports: A Labour activist who was suspended from the British party for claiming that Jews were “chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade” has been readmitted to its ranks.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany is condemning a contest in Iran for cartoons depicting the Holocaust, saying it sows hatred and deepens divisions in the Middle East.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon resolved their latest spat Monday, following rocketing tensions over the latter’s support of an IDF general who was criticized by the premier.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran Sunday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews during World War II and said the Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one.
Iran will host the Islamic Republic’s third annual Holocaust denial cartoon contest this weekend, just over a week after the world somberly remembered the 6 million Jewish lives that were murdered by Hitler during World War II, and four short months after the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal.
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TEL AVIV – A 94-year-old Holocaust survivor penned a letter rejecting controversial remarks made by Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan (pictured above, right) during a Holocaust Remembrance Day address in which he compared Israel to Nazi-era Germany.
London’s newly elected Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, attended an annual memorial to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first official act in office on Sunday.
