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A report issued this week by the Anti-Defamation League has found that a majority of mainstream digital platforms are responding inadequately to content that promotes Holocaust denial, despite specific pledges by some of these companies to fight it. Online Holocaust Denial Report Card looked at the various ways popular social media websites, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, handle Holocaust denial. Released Wednesday on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the report considered whether the company has an explicit policy barring Holocaust denial, how quickly it responded to a post containing such content, and whether any action was taken
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admin | February 1, 2021
Josh Frydenberg has warned antisemitism is on the rise in Australia and the treasurer says there is an obligation on all good people to take on hate wherever we see it. The treasurer told Melbourne radio station 3AW on Holocaust Memorial Day that given the age of survivors, memories were fading about the darkest chapter in human history. Frydenberg said antisemitism was on the rise locally, and Holocaust denial was in evidence globally.
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Leaders from journalism, public policy, media, and culture gather on January 27, 2021, for PaleyIMPACT: The Medias Role in Combating Holocaust Denial, Misinformation, and Antisemitism, moderated by Paula Zahn, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to discuss the media's vital role in fighting the rise of antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Maureen Reidy, Paley Center President and CEO, offers opening comments. Panel topics include: Eva Schloss's recollections of how friends and neighbors in her native Austria turned on her family in 1938, resulting in her being transported to Auschwitz; Schloss's thoughts on the emotional toll taken on her stepfather, Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank), when confronting Holocaust deniers after World War II's end; how social media allows hate groups to flourish; Facebook's recent ban on those who distort the history of the Holocaust; the necessity of continually magnifying Holocaust survivors' stories; the media's lack of coverage over a Camp Auschwitz shirt worn by one of the rioters that stormed the U.S
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admin | February 1, 2021
Since the Abraham Accords were first announced with the United Arab Emirates last year, Israel has been enjoying somewhat of a honeymoon period with multiple Arab states. The ramifications of this are tremendous and span nearly every facet of society from political to business to tourism to person-to-person relations
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admin | February 1, 2021
The past year will forever be marred by the global pandemic that spread around the world, locking us in our homes, forcing us to hide our faces behind masks, and tragically taking hundreds of thousands of lives.
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admin | February 1, 2021
Jan 28, 2021 Vladimir Munk traveled back to Auschwitz for the first time last year since he was a prisoner there during the Holocaust. The concentration camp is where more than a million people, mostly Jews, were murdered during World War II
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admin | February 1, 2021
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Manhattan Colleges Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith (HGI) Education Center is co-sponsoring a virtual event to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, January 27 at 6 p.m. The event will also commemorate the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp. The event will feature Michael Brovner, chief of the Queens County District Attorney's Hate Crimes Bureau and Mark Weitzman, Director of Government Affairs at the Simon Wiesenthal Center
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admin | February 1, 2021
On this Wednesday, Jan. 27, episode of Sundial: Floridas Vaccine Rollout Woes The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Florida has been anything but smooth. Those currently eligible for vaccines include healthcare workers, long-term care facility residents and staff, and people 65 and older.
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admin | February 1, 2021
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) Theres an old saying, Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. January 27 is designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day where many are reminded of one of the darkest periods of the 20th century
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