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This Israeli scientist is searching for aliens – and he takes his job very seriously
Harvard's Avi Loeb is leading a $100 million project called the Breakthrough Listen Initiative.
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NYC council candidate under fire for antisemitic tweets calls trips to Israel ‘propaganda’
Moumita Ahmed, one of the eight candidates running in the Feb. 2 non-partisan special election for the New York City Council seat vacated by former Councilman Rory Lancman, who took a job in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration, said during a debate on Tuesday that she supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Last week,…
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TikTok’s comic ‘Jew Who Loves Trees’ wants you to take Tu b’Shvat very, very seriously
(JTA) — Tobin Mitnick may be a comic actor, but his interest in trees is no joke. Mitnick has been documenting his love affair with trees since September on TikTok, the viral video app, where he goes by the mantle “A Jew Who Loves Trees.” He’s racked up more than 110,000 followers there by posting…
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ADL: Facebook fails to remove Holocaust denial despite ban
Would you consider a video about “Holohoax tales” or an Instagram post captioned “#HolocaustIsaLie” to be Holocaust denial content? Facebook wouldn’t. Facebook declined to remove Holocaust denial content that was pointed out to the platform, saying it did not violate its terms and conditions despite a ban on such material enacted in October of 2020,…
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Nazi-collaborator monuments How many monuments honor fascists, Nazis and murderers of Jews? You’ll be shocked.
Editor’s note: Since this article was originally published on Jan. 26, 2021, a town in Belgium has voted to remove a sculpture honoring Latvian collaborators with the Nazis. The Forward has also documented more than 1,000 additional streets named for and monuments honoring such dubious figures –- 625 in countries that were on our original…
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Armenia
Armenian nationalist Garegin Nzhdeh, whose soldiers served the Third Reich, has 20 streets named after him
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Australia
Honors for immigrants from Croatia, Lithuania, Serbia and Ukraine
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Belgium
'Beehive' monument to Latvians removed in June 2022; others remain
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
One city renamed multiple streets in July 2022, others remain
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Canada
Edmonton, Alberta is home to a bust of Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevych
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Croatia
Mile Budak has 11 streets, and even a pier, named after him
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