Holocaust
The court deferred sentencing for the incident, when Arik Lederman hit the ambassador’s car, then opened the door and spat on him twice.
“If I really believed the Holocaust had taken place, I wouldn’t have joined the Nazi Party,” said Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi Arthur Jones.
It is slated to include “an iconic Western Australian community facility” with a Holocaust museum and William Cooper Memorial.
“To confront this was quite an emotional wake-up call for the family,” David Kamenetzky, board chairman of both the foundation and JAB Investors.
A Catholic NGO is to award anti-Israel activist Brigitte Herremans its “ambassador for peace” prize at the site of a transit camp from which Jews were sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Piero Terracina was 15 when he and his family went into hiding in 1943 after escaping the roundup of Jews in Rome by German troops.
Jan. 27 will mark the 75th anniversary of the camp’s liberation.
Abdallah Chatila’s “seemingly simple” but “truly human” act “shows the whole world how to fight the glorification of hatred and incitement,” says Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
“From 1939 to 1989, a Jew could not feel safe in Poland,” he says. “Since then, thousands of Poles have discovered their Jewish roots … and they, in turn, are free to pursue what it means to be a Jew.”
“We are shocked and saddened about the appearance of this representation of Nazi ideology. Ironically, we learned about this symbol of hate appearing here on the same day we hosted a major public event on anti-Semitism,” the museum released in a statement.
“Like the Illinois GOP, we vehemently oppose Jones’s candidacy. Jones is a Nazi, not a Republican,” wrote Neil Strauss of the Republican Jewish Coalition. “There are two actual Republicans running in this primary, and we look forward to one of them winning the nomination.”
The offensive items were available by a seller called Weekino.
