Holocaust
The announcement was made the day before Holocaust Remembrance Day, and just days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed against the organization for thwarting Israeli policy and trying to erase Israel’s Jewish character.
Prior to the murder of 6 million Jews between 1939 and 1945, some 16,600,000 were spread throughout the world. Today’s data indicates that there are currently 14,511,000 Jews on Earth, a number similar to that in 1922.
“As we witness an increase in anti-Semitism around the world and dangerous attempts to rewrite history, now more than ever we must ensure that the memories of the survivors pass on to the next generation,” said Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon.
Proposed legislation, if passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, would grant money raised through donations to American schools as part of the Holocaust Education Assistance Program.
While not totally comprehensive, the bill signed by President Trump meets a number of immediate needs.
A Pew Research Center survey of 18 countries finds that Jews are not wanted as neighbors or family members. Other minorities fared worse.
“Arthur Jones is a Nazi, not a Republican. It is a disgrace that he has won the Republican nomination,” said RJC chairman Norman Coleman.
In Hebron, the group paraded a Torah that was saved by a 14-year-old boy from a burning synagogue in Hamburg, Germany, on Kristallnacht.
A Polish agency filed a lawsuit against an Argentinian newspaper that used Polish soldiers to illustrate an article on the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom.
Does time—even an entire generation or multiple generations—actually heal all wounds?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “the Polish prime minister’s remarks here in Munich are outrageous. There is a problem here of an inability to understand history and a lack of sensitivity to the tragedy of our people. I intend to speak with him forthwith.”
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday signed into a law a controversial bill that makes it a crime for anyone to suggest Polish complicity in the Holocaust.
