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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Group Burns Massive Swastika After Georgia Protest
Two dozen neo-Nazi protesters flooded a small Georgia town outside Atlanta with law enforcement Saturday, before retreating to a hillside to burn a massive swastika and rune symbol, the New York Times reported. The group, the National Socialist Movement, obtained a permit to demonstrate in Newnan, Ga., last month. Over 700 law enforcement agents from…
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Fast Forward Famed Asperger’s Doctor Helped Nazis Kill Disabled Kids: Study
Hans Asperger, the Austrian pediatrician who pioneered research into autism and after whom Asperger syndrome is named, “actively cooperated” with a Nazi program under which disabled children were killed, an academic paper published on Thursday says. The article by medical historian Herwig Czech published in the journal Molecular Autism says that Asperger referred severely disabled…
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Community Why Are We Still Honoring Nazis For Their Medical Discoveries?
Medical eponyms, honorary names the medical community gives to those who make a medical discovery or create an invention in the field, are very common. They include Crohn’s disease, named after Burrill Bernard Crohn, one of the scientists who first published an exhaustive description of the condition about the disease. But unfortunately, eponyms honoring Nazi…
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Fast Forward Gingrich Calls FBI ‘Gestapo’ Over Michael Cohen Raid
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in an appearance on Fox News Channel that the F.B.I.’s raid of the offices of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was akin to the Gestapo, the Nazi regime’s secret police. “We’re supposed to have the rule of law, it ain’t the rule of law when they kick in your door…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Norwegian Ambassador Compares Critics Of Israel To Nazi Collaborators
Israel’s ambassador to Norway compared critics of Israel to Nazi collaborators in comments on Facebook, the Washington Post reported. Raphael Schutz made the comments under his post about recent clashes on Israel’s border with Gaza. Video footage shows Israeli snipers shooting unarmed Palestinian protesters with live ammunition. In a post published Saturday, Schutz claimed that…
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Fast Forward Muslim Pol And Jewish Leader Want To Rebuild Synagogue In Berlin
A Palestinian-German politician and the chairman of Berlin’s Jewish community are hatching a plan to rebuild a grand synagogue destroyed by Nazis and their supporters in 1938, the Washington Post reported. The Fraenkelufer synagogue was largely destroyed during Kristallnacht, in 1938. Raed Saleh and Gideon Jaffe hope to raise enough money for a new synagogue…
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Fast Forward GOP Aide Says ‘Democrats Are Doing What Hitler Did’
An aide to a New York state senator compared Democrats and a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting to Nazis in a Facebook post. “The Democrats are doing exactly what Hitler did… He used the youth to disarm and control the people. This is scary!” Anthony Testaverde, an aide to Sen. Martin Golden,…
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Fast Forward Europe’s Life-Long Nazi Hunters Horrified By Rise In Anti-Semitism
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, two of Europe’s most famous Nazi hunters, are preparing to publish a memoir as they confront Europe’s rising anti-Semitism and xenophobia, the Washington Post reported. Over five decades the Klarsfelds, who are married, have tracked Nazis from Paris, their home, to as far away as Syria and Bolivia. Their most famous…
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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