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Fast Forward Deborah Lipstadt Suggests Trump Denies Holocaust for Leaving Jews Out of Remembrance Statement
Deborah Lipstadt has suggested President Trump is guilty of denying the Holocaust for the now infamous statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day that omitted specific mention of Jewish victims. The famed Jewish historian said the White House statement, which Trump advisers repeatedly defended, was as nefarious as more clear-cut forms of Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. “There…
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News White House Blocked State Department’s Holocaust Statement That Mentioned Jews
(JTA) — The State Department crafted a statement for International Holocaust Remembrance Day that explicitly mentioned the Jewish victims of the Nazis, but President Donald Trump’s White House team reportedly blocked its release. An unnamed Trump official said the incident was purely the product of miscommunication, Politico reported Thursday. The State Department’s Office of the…
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Community No, The Syrian Refugee Crisis Is Not Another Holocaust
“He’s a Nazi.” “This is just as bad as the Holocaust.” Outrage like this has seemingly become the norm within American political discourse. Whenever a policy seems crass— or someone sees the specter of fascism— the American public is quick to deem the perpetrator to be Nazi. Since Donald Trump announced his candidacy on the…
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News EXPLAINED: The Disturbing Back Story Behind Donald Trump’s Jew-Free Holocaust Statement
Additional information about the White House’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement continues to dribble out more than a week after the message, which omitted any mention of the event’s Jewish victims, was delivered by President Donald Trump. At the time, Jewish groups across the political spectrum condemned the statement, but nobody knew its backstory. Now, we…
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Culture Why Nazi Propaganda Is Not As Relevant As You Might Think
One of the first things viewers see at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition “State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda,” which recently opened at the U.N., is a quote from 1924 by Adolf Hitler: “Propaganda is a truly terrible weapon in the hands of an expert.” And, as the exhibition will show,…
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Fast Forward Trump Flubs Another Ethnic Tribute, Days After Jew-Free Holocaust Speech
Like many in his administration, President Donald Trump often brags about his disdain for political correctness, and sometimes the leader of the free world is likely aware that he’s offending people. For example: on International Holocaust Remembrance Day last Friday, he spoke about the awfulness of the Nazis’ attempt to exterminate European Jewry — without…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum Poster Listing Fascism’s Warning Signs Goes Viral
A United States Holocaust Memorial Museum poster detailing the “early warning signs of fascism” has gone viral on Twitter, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes and retweets. Among some of the “warning signs” are “powerful and continuing nationalism,” “disdain for human rights,” “identification of enemies as a unifying cause,” “rampant sexism,” “disdain for intellectuals and…
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Breaking News Holocaust Museum Calls on U.S. Government To Protect Refugees
(JTA) — The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum called on the government to create policy that addresses national security concerns but also allows in “legitimate refugees.” The statement issued Tuesday night does not directly address President Donald Trump’s recent executive order suspending entry of all refugees to the United States for the next four months,…
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