simmons | July 2, 2017
BERLIN (JTA) Germanys top Jewish leader praised a new lawdesigned to curb Holocaust denial on social networks. The German Parliament passed the lawFriday in its lastmeeting before summer break.
simmons | June 30, 2017
BERLIN The Austrian Constitutional Court said Friday that the government had acted legally when it seized the apartment complex in which Hitler was born, the latest and most likely last chapter in the long battle for ownership of the Nazi dictators birthplace. The court said in a statement that a law passed late last year allowing the expropriation of the three-story building was in the public interest, commensurate and not without compensation, and therefore not unconstitutional. Advertisement Austrian law prohibits the promotion of Nazi ideology, including Holocaust denial or the display of swastikas
richards | June 28, 2017
Facebook's content rules are under scrutiny again. A recent ProPublica report gives greater insight about how Facebook determines who to protect from hate speech on the platform.
simmons | June 27, 2017
Yuli Edelstein. (photo credit:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelsteins visit to Moscow will involve discussions aiming to reach agreements on security matters, he said at the start of a meeting Tuesday with Valentina Matviyenko, his counterpart in the Federation Council. Edelstein praised the cooperation between the defense committees of the two parliaments, but pointed out there are points of disagreement
simmons | June 27, 2017
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (AP/Steven Senne) (AP/Steven Senne) Facebook will not block Holocaust-denying content on its platform in countries where it remains legal, saying it is merely the expression of an opinion.
richards | June 26, 2017
More than 2,100 people have signed a petition to keep conspiracy theorist and alleged Holocaust denier Kevin Barret from speaking at a rally in Toronto. Jewish advocacy group Bnai Brith launched the petition after Barrett was invited to speak at the al-Quds march that will start at Queens Park on Saturday. Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of Bnai Brith Canada called the event an absolute hate fest.
richards | June 23, 2017
Kevin Barrett, who has called the the September 11, 2001attacks an inside job, is due at the event on Saturday afternoon. The annual al-Quds Day march marks the end ofthe Muslim month of Ramadan is generally a call for the destruction of Israel, echoed in other cities around the world as a day of rage against the Jewish State. Bnai Brith Canada launched the online petitionwhich currently stands at over 2,000 signatures
richards | June 22, 2017
An online petition asking the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to deny entry to an American Holocaust denier and conspiracy theorist has garnered more than 2,000 signatures to date.
richards | June 22, 2017
In a time when lying seems to matter less than it used to, when truth is questioned, when history is turned on its ear, its no wonder that Holocaust denial is emerging from the dung heap, brushing itself off and continuing to go about its evil business. Holocaust denial the odious suggestion that the Holocaust was made up, that world Jewry created this fiction to secure monetary reparations from Germany to help establish the State of Israel is a malevolent lie thats been perpetrated by neo-Nazis and other assorted anti-Semites. Yet, like a blood stain on a white garment, its hard to erase.
richards | June 20, 2017
In all the years he had Holocaust survivors speak to his students at Avon High School, Stu Abrams saw it as a way of ensuring that their stories would not be forgotten. The importance of doing that was driven home after Abrams organized a program for students in March with Margot Jeremias, a survivor and West Hartford resident. In May, he received two envelopes, one at his home and another sent to the school, that were filled with Holocaust denial material
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