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Fast Forward Jewish Students Protest Outside Home Of Former Nazi Guard
Jewish high school students protested on Monday outside the home of the last known Nazi concentration camp guard in the U.S. The Queens, N.Y. home of Jakiw Palij, 92, was the site of signs and chants by students from the Rambam Mesivta on Long Island. “It is outrageous that a Nazi who is involved in…
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Culture Nazi Punching: A (Short) Reading List
On April 15th, in Berkeley, we saw an increasingly familiar scene – violence at a political demonstration. At a “Patriots Day” rally, pro-Trump demonstrators, many of them self avowed fascists and Nazis, violently clashed with anti-fascist protestors (commonly referred to as “antifa”). Nazis were punched, Antifa members were punched, and less fringe commentators from each side…
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Fast Forward Brazilian School Admits Nazi-Themed Classroom ‘Inappropriate’
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A Brazilian Jewish federation will provide educational support to a private school in the country’s northeast where a classroom was decorated with Nazi flags during a lesson on totalitarian regimes. Students and history teachers from Santa Emilia School in Recife will visit the Kahal Zur Israel temple, the first synagogue…
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Fast Forward BREAKING: Neo-Nazi Sued For Anti-Semitic ‘Troll Storm’
A human rights group is suing the publisher of the internet’s biggest neo-Nazi website, alleging that he broke the law in the state of Montana by coordinating a campaign of anti-Semitic harassment against a Jewish real estate agent living in the town of Whitefish. Andrew Anglin, who runs the Daily Stormer website, launched the campaign…
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Fast Forward Pro-Trump Protestors Give Nazi Salute In Berkeley
Amidst raucous protests in Berkeley, California, a number protestors who appeared to be supporters of President Tump posed in front of cameras giving the Nazi salute. A Mother Jones reporter uploaded photos of the salutes on Twitter. Straight up nazis in Berkeley. Guy on left said he was a “national socialist. pic.twitter.com/99Q8wzpOc5 — Shane Bauer…
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Breaking News Vilnius University Won’t Honor Holocaust Victims Who Fought Nazis
(JTA) — Vilnius University in Lithuania said it would give academic degrees posthumously to Jewish students who were unable to graduate because they were murdered in the Holocaust — unless they were partisans. In a statement published on Wednesday on its website announcing the initiative entitled “Recovering Memory,” Vilnius University encouraged relatives of Holocaust victims…
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Breaking News Marine Le Pen Says French Not Responsible For Deporting Jews
(JTA) — Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in the French presidential elections, said that her country is not responsible for the deportation of thousands of Jews to death camps in 1942. Le Pen, who according to recent polls is one of the two leading candidates ahead of the first round of the elections on…
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Fast Forward Israeli Holocaust Survivor Returns Nazi-Looted Art To American Survivor
It’s not a normal story of art stolen by the Nazis being restored to its rightful owners. When it comes to Max Liebermann’s “Basket Weavers,” the unwitting Israeli purchaser of the looted painting was himself a Holocaust survivor, as was the American to whom it was returned this week. “This was not a legal case…
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