Holocaust
“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.
“Some people say that anti-Semitism is on the rise, but perhaps it never really went away. In truth, it’s just emerging back into the light,” said Alberto Levy, a Duke University graduate from Panama.
“There is no administration, no president, no secretary of state that have committed themselves to this extent to fight anti-Semitism, to protect the Jewish people and to support the State of Israel,” said Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr.
“From this place, I call on world leaders to fight rampant anti-Semitism erupting around the world, especially the shocking and dramatic rise of hate crimes in Europe, Latin America [and] the United States,” said Isaac Herzog, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
The delegation, which includes envoys from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and Eastern Europe, did the nearly two-mile walk from the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz to Birkenau on as a tribute to all victims of the Holocaust and a call for an end to anti-Semitism.
Speaking at Yad Vashem, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says the Jewish people “will not present its neck for the slaughter in the face of threats of destruction.”
P.A. TV presented pictures of Jewish victims in a Nazi concentration camp as being of Arabs killed by Jews in Deir Yassin in 1948.
