Media
The new documentary “Baking Bread” focuses on Arab and Jewish chefs who work jointly on creating dishes in a city known for multicultural coexistence.
Nadine Dorries, secretary of state for culture, media and sport in the United Kingdom, said: “YouTube has allowed its site to be used to incite racial violence and terrorism, and to profit from it. We will hold social-media companies to account for extremist ideologies online.”
An official with the Israeli cyber firm allegedly made the offer in a video call with American mobile-security firm Mobileum, The Washington Post reports; NSO denies doing business with Mobelium, or with cash.
“We would never have imagined that these things would be said … in classrooms, never mind by radical-left campus groups, but preached by professors in class, in high schools in Manhattan, on the best college campuses … in polite company, and really, really propagated in a way in the halls of Congress as well,” said Elan Carr, former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.
Civil servant Michael Blume defends allegations of impropriety by going on the offensive against his Jewish accusers. The established German Jewish community supports him, demonstrating a partisan rift. Now, allegations of corruption have surfaced.
In a series of two-minute videos, the campaign spotlights those recognized as Righteous Among the Nations and the dangers they faced to save Jews in German-occupied Europe.
The “Forever in Their Name” campaign is slated to launch on Jan. 26, the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center points to social media as a distributor of anti-Jewish propaganda, saying “racists have succeeded in attaching their goals and infiltrating their anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, Holocaust-denigrating imagery onto a legitimate, ongoing debate, which is very emotional. It’s a massive victory for them.”
Co-sponsored by Germany—and backed by the United States, Russia and many other countries—it affirms that the Holocaust “will forever be a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice.”
Women were recruited via social media and paid for their services, according to Israel’s security agency.
“Against All Odds: Surviving the Holocaust,” directed and produced by Paul Bachow, will be screened at the Miami Jewish Film Festival on Jan. 14.
“Most of the people that I worshipped were Jewish people,” Bob Saget said in a newspaper interview. “It’s funny, I always say ‘worshipped’ instead of worship. I should be worshipping in the eternal light, but I worship Alan King.”
