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When former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee raised the specter of the Holocaust in his evaluation of President Obama’s Iran deal, he touched a raw nerve because Huckabee got it right: The Holocaust taught us that evil is not satiated after it consumes Jews. A deal that is catastrophic for Israel is also catastrophic for the United States.

Huckabee’s Senior Communications Director Hogan Gidley exclusively told Breitbart News there has been almost a 100 percent increase in his campaign website traffic on Monday as compared to the previous Monday, prior to Huckabee’s criticism and remarks on the Iran deal.

Former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) has joined the chorus of critics responding to former Gov. Mike Huckabee’s (R-AR) use of a Holocause reference regarding the Iran nuclear deal, saying that Huckabee’s “inflammatory rhetoric” was getting in the way of finding an actual solution.

Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) distanced himself from comments made by former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR), his competitor in the Republican presidential primary, regarding the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran, although he shares Huckabee’s criticism for the deal itself.

Lord Weidenfeld, an influential British publisher who was helped by Christians to escape Nazi-occupied Austria during his youth, has set up a fund to help save Syrian and Iraqi Christian refugees from the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.

When Irving Roth walked out of the Auschwitz concentration camp in April 1945, having watched in horror as members of his family were marched into the gas chamber upon their arrival the previous year, he was thankful that he would live to see his sixteenth birthday.

The French National Assembly voted on Wednesday to distribute $60 million to non-French victims of the Holocaust. The fund is set to be administered by the United States. It will be distributed to foreign nationals who were deported from France to Nazi death camps, especially Auschwitz, on French rail lines.

In a forthcoming report triggered by an Associated Press investigation, the top watchdog at the Social Security Administration found the agency paid $20.2 million in benefits to more than 130 suspected Nazi war criminals, SS guards, and others who may have participated in the Third Reich’s atrocities during World War II.

Martin Greenfield – presidential tailor and co-author of Measure of a Man – spoke about his experience as a Holocaust survivor to a room full of millennials at Young America’s Foundation Friday afternoon, warning them about the signs of tyranny.

Twenty-six anti-Semitism watchdog groups issued a joint letter to Stanford University President John Hennessy, lauding him for condemning the vandalism of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house which was defaced with swastikas this past weekend, and imploring him to take additional steps to protect Jewish students on campus; particularly with the rise of antisemitism throughout many college campuses in California and especially through the strengthening of BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movements targeting Israel.

LOS ANGELES, California — Over 130,000 Armenians marched through the streets of Hollywood and Los Angeles on Friday to remind the world of their calls for recognition of the genocidal killing of 1.5 million of their people 100 years ago. The Turkish government has refused to recognize it as such.

This week the world is marking the gruesome 100th anniversary of events that took lives of some 1.5 million of Turkey’s Armenians. The Ottoman Empire was falling apart, fighting as one of the Axis powers in WW1, fearful of its Christian minorities and their possibly joining the Allied effort led by Czarist Russia to liberate them.

The Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs the Palestinian territory in the West Bank under President Mahmoud Abbas, has taken the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day to call into question the actual death toll of the Nazi’s genocidal campaign, Palestinian Media Watch reports.

FBI Director James Comey has prompted the U.S. Ambassador to Poland to issue an apology to that nation for remarks in which he implied that Poland was partially to blame for the Holocaust, and not exclusively a victim of Nazi Germany during its occupation.

Robert Kennedy, Jr., an outspoken opponent of vaccinations for children, apologized Monday for cavalierly using Holocaust imagery when he spoke of mandatory vaccines.

The leader of a small Hungarian Jewish community says about 20 graves have been vandalized in a Jewish cemetery.

As the elite Kurdish female forces fighting the Islamic State become increasingly well-known, nations close to the struggle have expressed increasing interest in these women. Israeli television aired a popular special this week profiling the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection United (YPG), who are fighting the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

Pop singer Katy Perry took some time away from the music Wednesday to pay a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, where more than one million people were murdered in the Holocaust of the Second World War.

As deadly anti-Semitism forces Jews to make a mass exodus from France, one fearless man in Munich, Germany, has been donning a kippah for the past two years to show, in his view, that the nation which was home to the most horrific genocide of modern times is now a safe place for Jews–even safer than America.

A New Mexico physicist has launched a petition – signed by 22,000 Klimate-Kool-Aid-drinkers, and counting – demanding that from henceforward climate sceptics be referred to in the media by their proper name. That proper name, apparently, is “climate deniers”. Among

Veteran actress Shirley MacLaine drew the ire of Jewish groups Thursday after passages from her recently published book suggest that the six million Jews and others who died in the Holocaust were “balancing their karma” by paying for sins in a previous life.

President Barack Obama’s attempt to dismiss the antisemitic terror attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris last month as a “random” shooting turns out to be more than a gaffe: it is administration policy.

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has accused Jewish critics of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress of repeating the mistakes of the Nazi era.

Shoah Foundation founder and Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg joined Holocaust survivors and dozens of world leaders at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Krakow Tuesday for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp where over one million Jews lost their lives in World War II.

January 27 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Located in occupied Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau was the most infamous German death camp, in which over a million Jews, Romani, and others whom the Nazi regime deemed unfit for life were gassed and murdered.

The majority of Britain’s Jews believe that Jewish people have no long term future in Europe, and a quarter have considered moving away from Britain recently thanks to rising anti-Semitism, a new report has found. The study, by the Campaign

In the wake of the slaughter of four Jews in a Paris kosher supermarket by an Islamic jihadist, a Parisian Jew said: “In the past year, 7,000 Jews have already left France and after this there will be many thousands more. We are not safe in France any more. There is no future for Jews here in France. We are finished in France.”