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Opinion Why All of France Should Shiver When Demonstrators Shout: ‘Jews Out’
Eighty years ago, on February 6, 1934, the French Republic had a near-death experience. On that wintry evening, tens of thousands of protestors, mostly young and mostly male, massed along the boulevards of Paris. Their aim was to bring down the Republic—or, as they called it, “la gueuse” or whore. In the eyes of contemporaries,…
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Fast Forward New Bill Would Make Companies Tied to Nazi Deportations Pay Restitution
A bill in which companies connected to the deportations of people to Nazi death camps must pay restitution before they can obtain a contract to work on a new rail line was introduced in the Maryland state Senate. State Sen. Joan Carter Conway, a Baltimore Democrat, introduced the legislation on Tuesday in response to reports…
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Culture Meet Harry Ettlinger, the Real-Life Jewish ‘Monuments Man’
There is hardly a white spot visible on Harry Ettlinger’s calendar. As we tour the 88-year-old Ettlinger’s immaculate apartment, he ignores the ringing phone; someone from Sony Pictures leaves a voicemail: “I will be emailing you today or tomorrow your confirmation number for your limousine pickup.” He pulls press clippings and pictures out of folders,…
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Fast Forward ‘Quenelle’ Comic Dieudonne Banned From Britain
Britain said on Monday it had banned a French comedian accused of anti-Semitism, saying he would not be allowed to enter the country for public policy and security reasons. Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, 46, has been repeatedly fined for “hate speech” in his native France where local authorities in several towns have banned his shows as…
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Fast Forward French Students Sue YouTube Over ‘Year of Quenelle’
A Jewish student union petitioned a French court to order the removal of a YouTube video in which an anti-Semitic comedian celebrates the quasi-Nazi salute he invented. The petition filed this week with the Paris Court of Grands Instances by the Union of Jewish Students of France, or UEJF, concerns a video posted Dec. 31…
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Fast Forward German Museums Drag Feet on Looted Art, World Jewish Congress Charges
German museums are wilfully ignoring their duty to come clean about works they hold that were looted from Jews by the Nazis, the head of the World Jewish Congress said on Thursday, and the government must do more to force them to act. Germany has faced heavy criticism over its handling of the discovery of…
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Fast Forward Nuremberg Trial Nazi Documents Fetch $10K — Found at Flea Market
Documents from the Nuremberg Trials found in a flea market in Israel were sold at auction. The trove of 500 pages, including documents used to convict top Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials, sold on Wednesday for $10,000, a spokesman for the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem told the Associated Press. An American collector bought the…
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Fast Forward Man Arrested Over Photo of Quenelle At Toulouse Jewish School
French police arrested a man suspected of disseminating a photo of a quasi-Nazi salute being performed in front of a school where four Jews were murdered. The man, who was identified as Joe le Corbeau, was arrested Tuesday near Marseille in southern France, according to a report by the France3 news network. Police believe he…
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