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Bailey tries to explain past Holocaust remark after Pritzker, Jewish leaders and others denounce it

“The attempted extermination of the Jews of World War II doesn’t even compare on a shadow of the life that has been lost with abortion since its legalization,” Bailey said in a 2017 video. On Tuesday, Bailey tried to smooth out his earlier comments, saying in a statement the Holocaust…

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Illinois Gov. Pritzker launches ad criticizing GOP rival for saying Holocaust ‘doesn’t compare’ to lives lost to abortion

CHICAGO — Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker launched a TV spot on Tuesday criticizing Republican challenger Darren Bailey for a 2017 statement in which the wealthy downstate farmer contended the Holocaust during World War II pales in comparison with lives lost through abortion.

Chicago Tribune

Tikkun Olam review – gripping dissection of identity politics and the culture wars

Centred around a proposed Holocaust memorial, this debut from playwright Teunkie Van Der Sluijs probes the intersections of Black and Jewish identity with an eloquent flair

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Bayern, Chelsea teens play in Holocaust memorial tournament

Some of Europe’s best soccer players from the under-17 teams of Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Bologna and other international clubs have taken part in the Walther Bensemann Memorial Tournament in Nuremberg

The Independent UK

Alarm grows as Orban prepares to take ‘pure Nazi’ rhetoric to US

Hungarian leader’s aide who quit over ‘race mixing’ remarks said his words have a chilling potential

The Guardian - UK

Jewish volunteers bond with Ukrainian kids at summer camp

A summer camp in Poland's capital has brought Jewish volunteers originally from Russia or other parts of the former Soviet Union to mentor Ukrainian refugee children

The Independent UK

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Holocaust survivors slam 'stupid, dangerous' remarks by Hungary's Orban

Jewish community representatives on Tuesday voiced alarm after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban spoke out against creating "peoples of mixed race".

Radio France Internationale

Outrage after Hungary PM Viktor Orban’s ‘pure Nazi’ speech

Orban has been strongly criticised for speaking out against creating ‘peoples of mixed race’.

Al Jazeera

Holocaust survivors condemn race remarks by Hungary's Orban

Jewish community representatives on Tuesday voiced alarm after Hungarian leader Viktor Orban spoke out against creating "peoples of mixed-race".

France 24

There is a lot of antisemitic hate speech on social media – and algorithms are partly to blame

Antisemitic incidents have shown a sharp rise in the United States. The Anti-Defamation League, a New York-based Jewish civil rights group that has been tracking cases since 1979, found that there were 2,717 incidents in 2021. This represents an increase of 34% over 2020. In Europe, the European Commission found…

The Conversation

Nicholas Goldberg: Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?

Watching the Jan. 6 committee hearings, one could be forgiven for believing we're living in the heyday of conspiracy theories, between the Holocaust denialism of the Oath Keepers, the loony pedophilia fears of the QAnoners and the "Stop the Steal" ravings of Sidney Powell, Rudolph W. Giuliani and former President…

Los Angeles Times

Holocaust Museum condemns swastika flags outside Turning Point USA summit

TAMPA, Fla. — Calling it “an indefensible act of hatred,” the Florida Holocaust Museum sharply condemned demonstrations at the Tampa Convention Center where a group of neo-fascists waved flags with swastikas outside Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit.

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‘He could not expel the trauma’: Sidney Nolan’s Auschwitz paintings revealed in landmark show

Preoccupied with the inhumanity of Nazi Germany, the artist painted 220 works in just four weeks: a ‘rambling, tumbling turmoil’ that he did not speak of for decades

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Jimmy Carr criticised for comparing 9/11 to One Direction on Netflix series

The comic is again under fire following his holocaust joke last Christmas

Daily Mirror

Jimmy Carr blasted over dark 9/11 joke in new Netflix show just months after Holocaust gag

Jimmy Carr's latest controversial joke is included in the streaming giant's new show, The Best Of Netflix Is A Joke: The Festival

Miami Herald

Why George Soros is the GOP’s villain in the sale of a Spanish-language radio station

Following the announcement that a left-leaning group of investors is buying Radio Mambí, the longtime talk-radio station of choice for Miami’s exile community, conservative media and Republican politicians seem to agree: George Soros is trying to take over Cuban radio.

The Independent UK

Starmer denies using Holocaust memorial for political purposes

The Labour leader said a visit to the Berlin memorial was part of his duty as a leader to prevent future atrocities.

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Trudy Rubin: Holocaust memorial in Kyiv was a statement against genocide but 'evil has returned'

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainians refer to Vladimir Putin as "Putler," an amalgamation of Putin and Adolf Hitler.

Radio France Internationale

Macron decries anti-Semitism on 80th anniversary of WWII roundup of Jews

French President Emmanuel Macron warned against anti-Semitism and historical revisionism on Sunday as he commemorated victims of the Holocaust on the 80th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup of Jewish families. "Anti-Semitism is not over and we should say so," he said.

Reuters

Macron decries anti-Semitism on 80th anniversary of Jewish deportations

The Independent UK

Holocaust survivors mark 80 years since mass Paris roundup

France is holding ceremonies Sunday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of a mass roundup of Jews in Paris under the Nazi occupation

Radio France Internationale

Survivor of 1942 Jewish roundup tells her story 'for those who didn't come back'

On 16 and 17 July, 1942, French police snatched close to 13,000 Jewish men, women and children from their homes in Paris in what was the largest operation of its kind in Western Europe. Most were taken to the Winter Velodrome before being sent to the death camps. Arlette Testyler,…

The Guardian - US

What Hate Can Do: inside a devastating new exhibition on the Holocaust

At the Museum of Jewish Heritage, an expansive new exhibition traces back the story of Jewish life before, during and after a horrifying period

Daily Mirror

How Hitler’s four remaining teeth revealed the evil dictator’s cause of death

The notorious Nazi leader was believed to have killed himself in 1945 but there have been wild rumours ever since that he lived on inside a submarine or in Argentina

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