This is the Forward’s coverage of the Holocaust (also called the Shoah), the genocide of Europe’s Jews committed by the Nazis during World War II.
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Fast Forward French Muslim Rapper Hit by Anti-Semitic Rants
Dozens of anti-Semitic messages were left on the Facebook page of the best-selling French rapper Booba, who vowed to “avenge the victims of the Holocaust.” The pledge featured in a new song titled “Master Yoda” by Booba, the stage name of 36-year-old Eli Yaffa, born in France to a Muslim father from Senegal. The song…
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News An Old Dog’s New Tricks
When I was a little girl, there were things as clear as sunlight, as the sea God had split just for the Jews. One of those things was that dogs were despicable creatures. They were scary and dirty, with teeth like knives, and paws with claws, ripping flesh off bone, the way they’d done to…
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Fast Forward Paper Apologizes for Bloody Bibi Cartoon
The Sunday Times of London apologized for publishing an editorial cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians and using their blood as cement. “We apologize unreservedly,” the paper said Sunday for the cartoon by regular Sunday Times cartoonist Gerald Scarfe printed a week earlier, on International Holocaust…
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Food Using Food Scarcity to explain the Holocaust to Children
I just explained the Holocaust to my daughter through the lens of food scarcity and kashrut. I hadn’t planned to explain the Holocaust to my daughter at age 4. However, after listening to Leah Johnson’s (Yonson) story of Holocaust survival in the Forests of Belarus (with the Bielski Brothers – see Daniel Craig in the…
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Fast Forward Idaho Lawmaker Invokes Holocaust in Describing Health Insurance Exchanges
An Idaho state senator compared insurance companies cooperating with Gov. Butch Otter’s proposed health insurance exchange to “Jews boarding trains to concentration camps.” Sheryl Nuxoll made the statement in a message sent to 120 email addresses and posted on Twitter, the Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash., reported. “Much like the Jews boarding the trains to concentration…
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Fast Forward Mohammed Morsi Aide Calls Holocaust a ‘Myth’
A top Egyptian official close to President Mohamed Morsi called the Holocaust a myth. “The myth of the Holocaust is an industry that America invented,” Fathi Shihab Eddim reportedly claimed in recent days. Shihab Eddim reportedly is responsible for appointing the editors of all state-run Egyptian newspapers. “U.S. intelligence agencies in cooperation with their counterparts…
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Opinion British Lawmaker’s Holocaust Day Shame
Prior to Holocaust Memorial Day — officially commemorated across Europe on Sunday — a Book of Commitment was placed in the British House of Commons for Members of Parliament to sign. The purpose of this simple act is to “publicly commit both to remembering the Holocaust and to working towards a future in which prejudice…
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Fast Forward Romanian Holocaust Denier Says Visit to U.S. Museum ‘Changed’ Him Forever
A Romanian government minister who denied that the Holocaust happened in his country said a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum would “forever stay” with him. Dan Sova, who was appointed minister for parliamentary relations in August despite protests by Jewish groups, made the statement Monday, a day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day,…
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