Posts Tagged: Nazi Germany
Idaho GOP Legislator Slammed for Comparing Coronavirus Restrictions to Nazi Persecution
An Idaho state legislator was under fire on Monday for remarks she made in a media interview that compared coronavirus restrictions on individual movement to...
Jewish Predicaments: 1939 and 2019
The American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, not noted as a political thinker, nevertheless knew something about political paradoxes. Fitzgerald wrote: “The test of a first-rate...
Pro-Israel Groups Slam Omar Comparing BDS to Boycotts of Nazi Germany, Soviet Union
JNS.org - Pro-Israel groups denounced US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for comparing the anti-Israel BDS movement to previous boycotts of Nazi Germany and the Soviet...
Canadian Political Candidate Ejected for Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany
JNS.org - A candidate for the Canadian Parliament has been ejected from her party for previous anti-Israel comments, including comparing the Jewish state to Nazi...
France’s Eldest Auschwitz Survivor Dies, Aged 101
Henriette Cohen, France's oldest survivor of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp, has died. She was 101. Cohen stayed silent about the horrors she lived through at...
Trump Climate Adviser: ‘Demonization’ of Carbon Dioxide Akin to ‘Demonization of Jews Under Hitler’
JNS.org - US President Donald Trump climate adviser William Happer once compared the “demonization of carbon dioxide” to how Jews were treated under Adolf Hitler in...
Macron Plan to Pay WWI Tribute to Nazi Collaborator Petain Stirs Anger
President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday it was "legitimate" to pay tribute to Marshal Philippe Petain, who led the French army to victory in World...
New Eichmann Film Puts the Lie to Hannah Arendt’s ‘Banality of Evil’
One of the most notorious lines -- and lies -- that grew out of the trial of Adolph Eichmann for his important role in the...
Canada Will Formally Apologize for Turning Away Jewish Refugees in 1939
JNS.org - Canada will formally apologize for turning away a boat full of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939. Speaking at a Jewish fundraiser for March...
80 Years On, Austria’s Jews Renew Demand for Holocaust Reparations
JNS.org - On the eve of the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria, or Anschluss, Holocaust survivors in Israel are calling on Vienna to provide...
A Wartime Tragedy Resurfaces in Berlinale Refugee Study
Decades after he won a Silver Bear prize for a pioneering film about the fate of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, Swiss director Markus Imhoof returns...
Judge: New York’s Met Can Keep Picasso Sold During Nazi Flight
A US judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking the return by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan of a Pablo Picasso masterpiece that...
Israel Slams Polish Bill Banning Statements Implicating Poland in Holocaust
Israel called on Poland on Saturday to amend a bill approved this week by Polish lawmakers that would make it illegal to suggest Poland bore...
Japan Prime Minister Abe Honors ‘Japanese Schindler’ Chiune Sugihara in Lithuania
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the former Japanese consulate in Lithuania on Sunday to commemorate a Japanese diplomat credited with saving an estimated 6,000...
