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‘A frenzy of judgement’: artist Candice Breitz on her German show being pulled over Gaza

The Jewish artist’s exhibition was cancelled when she commented on the Israel-Hamas war. She argues that Germany is weaponising false charges of antisemitism to chilling and repressive effect

The Guardian - UK

How Nicholas Winton saved 669 children (and counting) from the Holocaust: ‘He became everybody’s grandfather’

Four generations owe their lives to the man who brought trainloads of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to Britain in 1939. The original refugees remember the Kindertransport – and the shy stockbroker who got them on it

The Guardian - UK

NZ Labour labels Israel's attack on Gaza as genocide

New Zealand's parliament has debated and approved a motion from Foreign Minister Winston Peters calling for steps towards a ceasefire in Gaza.

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Why is Israel at war with the UN?

Over the course of its war with Hamas in Gaza, Israel has repeatedly clashed with the United Nations.

Al Jazeera

Hanukkah message of light in darkness feels uniquely relevant to US Jews amid war, antisemitism

Preparing for Hanukkah feels uniquely somber yet defiant this year for the Jewish communities in and around Miami Beach

The Independent UK

Science is a human right − and its future is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Dec. 10 marks the anniversary of the 1948 signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Though contested, imperfect and unfulfilled, the declaration remains a milestone in human civilization as one of the earliest times the world came together…

The Conversation

Texas GOP wars with itself over Nazis

Texas Republicans called it "Marxist" to bar members from associating with Holocaust deniers

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Texas GOP Rejects Ban on Association with Nazis

It’s the latest instance of the state Republican party's right-wing officialdom embracing extremism, and vengeance, above all else.

Texas Observer

Members of Texas Republican party free to associate with Nazi sympathizers

Executive committee rejects banning members who ‘espouse or tolerate antisemitism’ and deny Holocaust, arguing clause is vague

The Guardian - US

How the White House’s John Kirby is taking on the word ‘genocide’

An inveterate grammarian, Kirby is pushing Biden’s support of Israel even as Biden makes amends with Arab Americans

The Guardian - US

Plan to add teaching of Holocaust, genocide to science education draws questions from Maine teachers

Teachers are voicing skepticism about a Maine proposal to update science education standards to incorporate teaching about genocide, eugenics and the Holocaust

The Independent UK

Charging Jews with genocide is to declare them guilty of precisely what was done to them

Israel’s response to the 7 October Hamas attacks has emboldened many to say the once unsayable

The Guardian - UK

Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers

Some members of the committee said such a ban, proposed two months after a prominent conservative activist was caught meeting with a famous white supremacist, might be a “slippery slope” or too vague.

The Texas Tribune

‘People are being penalised’: Hollywood divided over Israel-Hamas conflict

Stars like Susan Sarandon and Cynthia Nixon are raising their voices in support of Palestine, but many others are paying a steep price for speaking up

The Guardian - US

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Hafta letters: Hamas-Israel, balancing acts, Jayashree’s rants, air pollution

I am the person who sent in the Atlantic article as a letter. Disappointed that other aspects of my letter weren’t engaged with and some misconceptions were doubled down on.

The Independent UK

From a resume of lies to an OnlyFans scandal: George Santos’s many, many controversies

Examining a play-by-play of the strangest string of scandals to hit DC in recent memory

The Independent UK

How Henry Kissinger’s Holocaust escape shaped his powerful and polarising foreign policy

Master diplomat or war criminal, there’s no denying that Kissinger’s story is one of the American dream: a tale of a boy who fled Nazi Germany to become one of the most powerful men in US and world politics. Rachel Sharp reports

International Business Times

US Families Recount 'Horrific' Gaza Hostage Ordeal, Urge More Action

Four-year-old American hostage Abigail is surrounded by family in Israel who "brought her life back" after seven weeks of captivity, her great aunt said Wednesday, as relatives stressed they will not rest until everyone held by Hamas is freed.

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The Conversation

Nazi doctors weren't just ‘a few bad apples’, shows report – and simplistic stories won't help guard against future medical abuses

Extraordinary evil involves a total moral collapse across society caused by failure of individual humanity and ethical judgment. This was the conclusion of the philosopher Hannah Arendt after witnessing the trial of Adolf Eichmann – the chief architect of the Holocaust – in Jerusalem.

Reason

Want Freedom to Criticize China, Palestine, Mexico, etc.? Protect Criticism of Israel

After the Oct. 7 murders, the first attempts to punish speakers focused on those who defended Hamas's murders. But, unsurprisingly, things have turned to trying to suppress criticism of Israel more broadly, including criticism of Israel's attacks on Gaza. (The slippery slope is a real phenomenon, in a culture where…

The Guardian - US

Antisemites supporting Israel is weird. Jewish support of them is even weirder

Jewish organizations are embracing public figures who have circulated hateful tropes – because they support Israel

The Independent UK

With antisemitism rising as the Israel-Hamas war rages, Europe's Jews worry

Antisemitism is spiking across Europe after Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre and Israel's bombardment of Gaza, worrying Jews from London to Geneva and Berlin

The Conversation

The long, dark history of antisemitism in Australia

Readers are advised this essay contains historical terms and images which are now considered outdated and offensive.

The Conversation

Is it time to reconsider the idea of 'the banality of evil'?

After attending the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt claimed what was terrifying about this man was not his moral monstrosity. It was his sheer normality. She subtitled her 1963 book on the subject, Eichmann in Jerusalem, “a report on the…

The Guardian - US

House speaker Mike Johnson likened abortion to ‘American holocaust’

CNN airs clip from May last year in which then Louisiana congressman – a leading anti-abortion voice –made comparison

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