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Fast Forward British Royal Couple Meet Holocaust Survivors On Poland Visit
Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate visited a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland on Tuesday where they heard the personal accounts of Holocaust survivors. The royal couple toured Stutthof concentration camp, which was the first camp built in Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939. They visited the on-site museum, viewing exhibits depicting the…
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Opinion Why Is Bibi Aligning Israel With An Anti-Semitic Populist Who Demonizes George Soros?
When Benjamin Netanyahu begins an official visit to Hungary today, he will mark one of the most remarkable alliances in world politics: The alliance between a prime minister of the Jewish state and a group of would-be authoritarians who exploit anti-Semitism for political gain. Welcoming Netanyahu in Budapest will be Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who…
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News Meet The Jewish Activist Who Boosts Trump, Netanyahu — And A Powerful Anti-Semitic Polish Priest
Leaders of Poland’s Jewish community were deeply upset last month when President Trump defied precedent to be the first American leader in decades to forego visiting the monument that commemorates the doomed revolt of Warsaw’s Jews against the Nazis. Worse yet, Trump went to a different monument hailing Polish heroism in World War II where…
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Fast Forward Catholic Bishop Joins 100 At Rite For Jedwabne Pogrom
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Some 100 people attended a ceremony commemorating the victims of the pogrom in Jedwabne in northeast Poland. For the first time ceremony was attended by Bishop Rafał Markowski, president of the Council for Religious Dialogue and the Committee for Dialogue with Judaism, who said that the Catholic Church prays for the Polish perpetrators of the murder and apologizes…
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Fast Forward Polish Former Priest Indicted For Inciting Hatred Against Jews
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The prosecutor’s office in the western Poland city of Wroclaw issued an indictment against former priest Jacek Międlar for “public incitement to hatred based on religious and national differences.” He could face up to 2 years in prison. On Nov. 11, 2016, during Polish Independence Day, Wroclaw hosted the “March of Patriots.” According…
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Opinion Why Jews Should Worry About Trump’s Stoking Fears Of Muslims — Especially In Poland
Last week in Poland, President Trump uttered this remarkable statement: “Americans, Poles and nations of Europe value freedom and sovereignty. We must work together to confront forces, whether they come inside or out, from the south or the east, that threaten over time to undermine these values and to erase the bonds of culture, faith…
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News How Trump Threw A Bone To Poland’s Populists — And Whitewashed Their Anti-Semitism
The Polish government can claim a huge victory in the fight over the country’s honor as well as its campaign to rewrite history and erase the stains of Poland’s past. President Donald Trump, the leader of the free world, adopted the Polish narrative of victimhood and its unilateral pretension of innocence in its entirety, granting…
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Fast Forward Trump Skips Ghetto Monument On Warsaw Trip — Jewish Leaders Slam ‘Slight’
(JTA) — Leaders of Polish Jews criticized President Donald Trump for not including a stop at a monument for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the itinerary of his visit to Poland. The rebuke Wednesday by Polish Chief rabbi Michael Schudrich, Anna Chipczynska, the president of Jewish Community of Warsaw, and Leslaw Piszewski, the president of…
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