Don Snyder
By Don Snyder
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News Rent A Jew Brings Real, Live Jews To German Students
Do Jews get a discount when they buy a car? Do they own McDonald’s? Do Jews control the media and international banking? Do any of them live here anymore? These are among the questions German schoolchildren ask Jews who volunteer in a new outreach program with the provocative name “Rent A Jew.” The Jews in…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitism Spikes in Poland — Stoked by Populist Surge Against Refugees
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Poland, a country with almost no Jews. A new national study conducted by the Center for Research on Prejudice at the University of Warsaw finds a significant increase in negative attitudes toward Jews since 2014. The research, covering the years 2014-2016, shows that anti-Semitic hate speech is becoming increasingly…
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Israel News European Jews Alarmed by Israeli Outreach to Anti-Semitic Far Right
Jews in Europe are voicing increasing consternation about Israel’s budding engagement with surging far-right European parties that have anti-Semitic histories. In Poland, Austria and the halls of the World Jewish Congress, among other places, Diaspora activists are raising sharp questions about the morality of Jerusalem’s foreign policy. “We should not abandon our heritage and cut…
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News Poland Is Poised to Put ‘Bad’ Historians of the Holocaust in Prison
Jan Grabowski, a historian at the University of Ottawa, expects his upcoming book to be controversial in his native Poland. But if a proposed new law is approved by Poland’s parliament this fall, as expected, Grabowski’s book, which examines the role of Poland’s police force in robbing and murdering Jews under the Nazis, may also…
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News Poles Call for Hate Speech Crackdown After Demonstrators Burn Jew in Effigy
Poland’s B’nai Brith has denounced the burning of a Jew in effigy during an anti-refugee rally. The anti-Semitic act followed tirades against Muslim refugees at a rally in Wroclaw, a major city in southwest Poland. “Raped, beaten and murdered by the Islamic savages,” the Polish nationalists shouted in the market square this week. “Do you…
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Fast Forward 2 Polish Right-Wing Ministers Blasted Over ‘Protocols’
The Anti-Defamation League has criticized two Polish government officials for their failure to denounce the notorious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” “We are disappointed that two senior government ministers passed up on opportunities this past week to state unequivocally that ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ is an anti-Semitic fiction,” said Andrew Srulevitch,…
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Fast Forward Incoming Polish Defense Minister Praised Anti-Semitic ‘Protocols’
The Anti-Defamation League has called upon the new Polish Defense Minister to apologize and retract 2002 comments about the anti-Semitic “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” On Monday, the ADL charged Polish Defense Minister-designate, Antoni Macierewicz, with making an offensive anti-Semitic response to a caller during a broadcast on Radio Maryja, a notoriously anti-Semitic radio…
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News Searching for a Photo of Childhood Friend Lost in the Shoah
Who has a picture of Ruth Nelly Abraham? That intriguing headline, a plea from Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher, appeared in the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel on August 3. Auerbacher, 80, was looking for a picture of her childhood friend, Ruth Nelly Abraham, who was murdered at Auschwitz. Auerbacher hoped a picture would breathe new life…
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