Holocaust
The episode exemplified the latest in the strained relationship between Warsaw and Jerusalem.
Anti-Semitism on Al Jazeera network: “Israel is the biggest winner from Holocaust; it uses the same justification to annihilate the Palestinians.”
“Please know that we emphatically renounce such hateful symbols and do not support or condone any viewpoint that is hurtful, harmful or disparaging,” said university chancellor Mark Mone.
The Tennessee school announced that its history project will no longer consist of students demonstrating a Hitler or a Nazi salute, and instead “find alternative means of covering the fifth-grade history standard.”
“The Harvard Lampoon is garbage,” tweeted Catherine Zhang, a senior at the university.
“I would like to express my apologies,” stated Arik Lederman, arrested in Israel for spitting at the ambassador. “My family experienced the Holocaust, and my appeal to the embassy was on the matter of restitution of property.”
“What you are seeing today out of some of my colleagues on the Democratic side in the House is a kind of vitriol of anti-Semitism,” U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) .
A spokesperson for the state’s Board of Judicial Conduct told local NBC affiliate WMC5 that numerous complaints have been filed, and that there is an ongoing investigation.
“Congresswoman [Rashida] Tlaib’s ignorance is exceeded only by her gall. Had she read no further than Wikipedia, she would know that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, helped the Nazis recruit Bosnian Muslims for the Waffen-SS,” said American Jewish scholar Jonathan Sarna.
“There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors—Palestinians—who lost their land and some lost their lives ...,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said via podcast.
“I certainly don’t agree with that, being a Holocaust denier. My best friend, who’s deceased now, was Jewish, and I wouldn’t do that,” said Jim Lammey of the Shelby County Criminal Court, who was re-elected to an eight-year term in 2014.
March of the Living founder: ‘The only thing worse than Auschwitz is the world forgetting Auschwitz’
The ceremony included the lighting of six torches, each one honoring a different group of Holocaust heroes.
