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Christie’s cancels auction of jewelry bought by billionaire with Nazi past
By Yonat Shimron — September 1, 2023
(RNS) — The auction house planned to sell jewelry from the collection of Heidi Horten, whose husband built a fortune at the expense of Jews during the Nazi years.
There is a lot of antisemitic hate speech on social media – and algorithms are partly to blame
By Sabine von Mering and Monika Hübscher — July 26, 2022
(The Conversation) — Antisemitism today does not always appear in the form of traditional hate speech. It manifests in GIFs, memes, vlogs, comments and reactions on social media platforms.
The ‘sonnenrad’ used in shooters’ manifestos: a spiritual symbol of hate
By Helen A. Berger — June 30, 2022
(The Conversation) — The far-right today shares more than just ideas with white supremacists of yesterday – they also share some pagan-inspired symbols.
Tennessee school board bans acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel, ‘Maus’
By Yonat Shimron — January 27, 2022
(RNS) — The move comes as school boards in politically conservative districts across the nation are reexamining their curriculums.
The Good Swastika
By Joshua Hammerman — January 26, 2018
(RNS) — Making peace with the swastika does not mean making peace with Nazis past and present, nor with their hateful ideology – nor with their corrupted version of that symbol.
Pope Francis shouldn’t risk going to Myanmar
By Thomas Reese — November 20, 2017
(RNS) — Next week Pope Francis will visit Myanmar, where he risks either compromising his moral authority or putting in danger the Christians of that country. I have great admiration for the pope and his abilities, but someone should have talked him out of making this visit.
Berlin exhibit highlights how the Nazis exploited Martin Luther’s legacy
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 19, 2017
BERLIN (RNS) — Most visitors to events in Germany marking this year’s 500th anniversary of the Reformation probably didn’t expect to find an exhibition setting out just how extensively the Nazis used Luther to justify their anti-Semitism and nationalism.
Facebook enabled advertisers to reach ‘Jew haters’
By ProPublica — September 14, 2017
After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring.
Don’t throw the word ‘Nazi’ around
By Holly Lebowitz Rossi — August 25, 2017
(RNS) — 'Nazism shouldn’t be a casual catch-all term to describe the bad guys,' writes Holly Lebowitz Rossi.
Mennonites seek to come to terms with Nazi collaboration
By Ben Goossen — March 16, 2017
FILADELFIA, Paraguay (RNS) Since the end of the Second World War, Mennonite-Nazi collaboration has largely been ignored, forgotten or intentionally repressed by adherents of this Christian denomination that was founded in 16th-century Europe on principles of nonviolence and nonparticipation in politics.
Kansas Jewish centers shooter gets the death penalty
By Reuters — September 8, 2015
Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan, shouted "death to the Jews" with a Nazi salute when he was convicted last month of killing three.
What the queen’s Nazi salute says about British high society in the 1930s (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — July 28, 2015
(RNS) While the short film doesn’t make Elizabeth, who was just a child, an anti-Semite, it does remind us that in pre-World War II Britain, hatred of Jews and admiration of Nazism were rampant.
‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz,’ who admitted ‘moral guilt,’ convicted in German trial
By Reuters — July 15, 2015
The 94-year-old man was convicted as accessory to the murder of 300,000 people and sentenced to four years in prison, in what could be one of the last big Holocaust trials.
Nicholas Winton, the ‘British Schindler,’ dies at age 106
By Reuters — July 2, 2015
LONDON (Reuters) A man who became known as the "British Schindler" for saving hundreds of Czech children from Nazi persecution in the run-up to World War II has died.
German Jews advised to shun skullcaps in Muslim areas
By Reuters — February 26, 2015
BERLIN (REUTERS) Josef Schuster of the Central Council of Jews said Jews should not hide out of fear but that in some areas it was better not to be recognized.
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