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Fast Forward WATCH: Ben Carson Makes Fun of Holocaust After Survivor Gets Honorary Degree
During his presidential campaign, Ben Carson said he is proud of his bluntness and thick skin, and an eight-year-old video clip, demonstrates his consistency: Trump’s nominee to lead the Housing and Urban Development Department, made a gag about the Holocaust — in front of a Holocaust survivor. In the clip, Carson is heard joshing about…
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Opinion My Late Uncle’s Memories of Germany in the 1930s Haunt Me Today
Anti-Semitism had always been a part of German culture before Hitler came to power, my great uncle Ernie Lowenstein told me. But the difference was noticeable as soon as he became chancellor. You could tell right away, he recalled. I was visiting Ernie in a retirement facility in Evansville, Indiana in the summer of 1992….
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News White Supremacist Cheers Trump’s ‘De-Judification’ of Holocaust
For Richard Spencer, the leading ideologue of the “alt-right,” Donald Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that failed to mention Jews or anti-Semitism was an important, perhaps revolutionary, step. Spencer dubbed it the “de-Judification” of the Holocaust. Jewish activists, Spencer wrote in a short post for his new website, Altright.com, have long insisted on making the…
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News A Jew Wrote The Holocaust Remembrance Day Statement that Omitted Jews
A Jewish aide to President Donald Trump wrote his January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, controversial for its omission of Jews, according to POLITICO. On Monday, press secretary Sean Spicer said that an individual who is Jewish and the descendent of Holocaust survivors helped to write the statement. Trump aide Boris Epshteyn fits that…
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Opinion The Refugee Ban Masks Steve Bannon’s Power Grab
Last Friday night, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump hosted their first Shabbat meal in their new home in Washington DC. Among the invitees saying kiddish were influential members of the new Trump administration. The next day, one of the attendees, Hope Hicks, Trump’s Director of Strategic Communications, spent her Saturday publicly defending and applauding the…
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Culture Spicer Continues The White House’s Disgraceful Line On The Holocaust
It should come as no surprise that “I’m sorry” does not seem to be in the current administration’s vocabulary. Following the widespread backlash against Donald Trump’s disgraceful Holocaust Memorial Day statement (you can read my piece on all the statement’s problems here), White House Secretary Sean Spicer doubled down on the statement in a press…
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News On Holocaust Statement, Trump Ally Ron Lauder Stands Alone
As Jewish leaders rang the alarm this weekend over the White House’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, only one Jewish group stood by Donald Trump’s side. Trump’s statement, released Friday, mourned the Holocaust, in which Nazis killed 6 million Jews, without mentioning Jews. Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress and a college classmate…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton V.P. Tim Kaine Calls Trump’s Remembrance Day Speech ‘Holocaust Denial’
President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman said his statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day that omitted specific reference to Jews was part of an effort to be inclusive. Tim Kaine saw a more nefarious motive behind the missive: Holocaust denial. “President Obama, President Bush always talked about the Holocaust in connection with the slaughter of Jews. The final…
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