Holocaust
Residents believe that the city council’s position is a result of continued pressure from the business community, which hopes to acquire the land currently occupied by the museum.
“We strongly condemn anti-Semitism, and hateful conduct has absolutely no place on our service,” said a platform spokesperson.
The payments will go to 240,000 survivors who mostly live in Israel, North America, the former Soviet Union and Western Europe.
Responded the Simon Wiesenthal Center: “At a time when the Internet is awash with fake news and technological tools that enable governments and virtually anyone to manipulate information, we welcome Facebook’s change of policy to stand with historic fact and the 6 million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany during World War II.”
A state administrative judge ruled in August that William Latson should be rehired, though reassigned. Donald Fennoy, superintendent of the School District of Palm Beach County, has recommended that Latson be reinstated and given $152,000 in back pay.
“It reaffirms an important truth: Neo-Nazi organizations that weaponize patriotism are dangerous and spread hatred,” said the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece.
The law is part of a larger effort under Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, one of the European Union’s most pro-Israel leaders, to remove any doubts about anti-Semitism and enrich the country’s Jewish life.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi: “Our signatures side by side in the Book of Remembrance is like a shared cry and oath: to remember and not to forget, and to promise never again.”
Were William Latson to be employed again, it has been requested that he be a “principal on assignment.”
Real estate executive Loren Flaum and South Carolina Ports Authority chairman Bill Stern were named to the council, the governing body of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Pittsburgh resident Judah Samet lived through the Holocaust and the assault on his synagogue, the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
“The president is not Hitler. Joe Biden is not Castro,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, adding that the comparison “degrades the memory of the Shoah.”
