Simon Wiesenthal Center
The findings show that not only is Holocaust-denial content available, but the social-media network lists it through the site’s algorithm.
“Very concerned that this offensive material was on a learning website,” tweeted Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce.
A high school student was required to watch a short video about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as part of his online summer course taken through the York Region District School Board.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center declined to respond directly to Jay Electronica, saying, “I’m not the issue.”
British Ambassador to Argentina Mark Kent tweeted: “Nazism was the greatest evil of the 20th century, It led to the Holocaust. The death of millions of innocents. We should not commemorate anyone who participated in this terrible episode.”
A man using a loudspeaker at a Shia mosque in Thornhill instructed followers to boycott “all the Zionist businesses,” claiming that it is “illegal” and “forbidden” for Muslims to do business with “Zionists.”
“The coronavirus pandemic may be new, but Jews have a long and tragic history of being accused of spreading deadly viruses,” according to a report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The list was discovered in an old storage room in the former Nazi headquarters in Buenos Aires; Simon Wiesenthal Center requests access to the Credit Suisse archives.
In 2015, Prince Albert II apologized for Monaco’s deportation of Jews during the Holocaust. A memorial now stands in the Monaco Cemetery.
A bungled telegram marking the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, coming on the heels of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, puts some Jewish groups on edge.
“May the anniversary of the unspeakable cruelty that humanity learned of 75 years ago serve as a summons to pause, be still and to remember,” he stated. “We need to do this lest we become indifferent.”
The list is normally published in late December or early January, but was released early this year, perhaps due to the elections on Dec. 12.