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Fast Forward Bill To Recover Nazi-looted Art Passes House of Representatives
— A bill to facilitate the return of Nazi-looted artworks to their original owners or heirs passed the U.S. House of Representatives. The House passed the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, or HEAR Act on Wednesday. It must still pass the Senate. The bill would extend the statute of limitations for the stolen artwork to six years from the date that the art…
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Fast Forward Northwestern Jewish Studies Professor Targeted With Nazi Salute Near Campus
— A Jewish studies lecturer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, said a stranger asked him if he was Jewish and then performed a Nazi salute and said “Heil Hitler.” The unnamed lecturer said the man approached him in a vehicle last month near the campus Hillel building, The Daily Northwestern reported Monday. The director of Northwestern Hillel,…
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Fast Forward Austria’s Nazi Past Makes Unwelcome Comeback in Presidential Race
Austria’s most infamous son, Adolf Hitler, is rarely mentioned in his home country. So it came as a shock to many when presidential candidate Alexander Van der Bellen reached into a folder during a recent live TV debate and produced a photo montage including two images of the Fuehrer. The former Greens leader was complaining…
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Fast Forward Did Ann Coulter Defend American Nazis in This Tweet?
Ann Coulter used Twitter Monday to compare Nazis favorably to African-American activist Al Sharpton, adding another tweet to a string that have generated immediate backlash. Total # of deaths connected to American Nazi Party in last quarter century: ZERO; Total # of deaths connected to Al Sharpton: 9 I know of. — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter)…
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Fast Forward Harvard Professor Gets Anti-Semitic Postcard in the Mail
Sanford Levinson, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, on Monday received a postcard full of anti-Semitic threats that referenced President-elect Donald Trump, according to reports in the Dallas Morning News and Boston Globe. “Hey Sandy, you just got your kike ass kicked… We are gonna drain the swamp at Harvard Law School, Juden Raus,”…
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Fast Forward ‘Alt-Right’ Conference Finishes off With Nazi Salute and Anti-Semitism
— Speakers at an event of the white supremacist think tank the National Policy Institute quoted Nazi propaganda and said the media protects Jewish interests. The day-long event of speeches and panel discussions attended by about 200 people was held Saturday in Washington, D.C. The New York Times reported Monday that the final speaker of…
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News Ann Coulter Sparks Outrage With Pro-Trump Tweet Recalling Nazi Racial Purity Laws
Far right wing commentator Ann Coulter sparked outrage on social media on Election Day eve by suggesting that Donald Trump would win in a 50-state landslide if the children and grandchildren of immigrants were not permitted to vote. If only people with at least 4 grandparents born in America were voting, Trump would win in…
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Opinion Misogyny Was Enough To Tarnish Donald Trump — but Neo-Nazism Wasn’t?
On November 9, 1938, the Nazi paramilitary force known as the SA led a pogrom against German Jews that is now known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass. They torched synagogues, smashed Jewish businesses and ransacked Jewish homes, sending an estimated 30,000 of their occupants to concentration camps. The two-day orgy of…
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