Holocaust denial

This is a cross post by Anthony Cooper from Just Thinking The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) continues to have problems with antisemitism and Holocaust denial. At their recent AGM the delegates confirmed the expulsion of Francis Clark-Lowes, a former national chair and member of the Brighton branch, for Holocaust denial. His problems started last April when he [...]  

"Janka," a play by Oscar Speace recounting the reflections of a Holocaust survived will be presented at 7 p.m. Saturday at 210, 210 W. Center Ave. The play is a one-woman performance relating the story of Speace's mother, Janka Festinger, who ...  

J-Wire Jewish Australian News ServiceHolocaust Remembrance as Holocaust DenialJerusalem Post (blog)Once a year Europe and the extended West commemorate the Holocaust. And yearly “the Holocaust” grows ever more universal. Biafra, South Sudan: genocides around the globe subsumed under the term, “holocaust.” And while these also are tragedies, ...Brazil remembers Jewish and Afro-descendant Shoah victimsJewish Telegraphic AgencyUN International...  

PSC campaigns officer Ben Soffa has written this past weekend that, PSC AGM overwhelmingly endorsed statement that Holocaust denial / minimisation have no place in PSC This was in response to the motion passed at the AGM endorsing the executive’s statement about Holocaust denial, that Holocaust denial has no place in the Palestine Soldiarity movement. The statement [...]  

In Norway, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, speaking from the dock in Oslo where 532 Jews were deported in 1942, apologized for the role Norweigans played in facilitating the deportations. “Today I feel it is fitting for me to express our ...  

Reality always outdoes the worst sarcasm I come up with. Just a week ago, I was half joking when I told Hontas Farmer to be careful with his/her (nobody is quite sure which) enlightened stance on history. The warning was that people will “hit ...  

Harpal Brar is the leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), abbreviated to CPGB-ML. Brar is a supporter of the North Korean regime, and Brar travelled to Libya last year to express support for Colonel Gaddafi. Keen to whitewash the crimes of Stalinism, Harpal Brar is prone to historical revisionism. Wikipedia notes – accurately – of Brar: He, along with his [...]  

Re: The Holocaust & War in AmericaTo Whom,Growing up we heard a lot about the Holocaust.  My mother couldn't let it go. Age 12 when it began she heard the bombings and saw people taken away. She wasn't Jewish but the little boy next door -who would later be her brother in-law - and his grandmother were.  In her eighties she disappeared one night.Not once but many times my mother wept for what she saw and later knew of the war. She was a very...  

Brooklyn, NY – More than $100,000 has been invested into a five-minute YouTube clip created to combat Holocaust denial in the United States, and to increase awareness of the atrocity among American teenagers. According to its producers, “Rainbow in the Night” is the first Holocaust clip ever to be made. It includes hundreds of actors, [...]  

Seven years ago, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.The Tom Lantos Archives on Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial, launched in 2009, is the world's foremost resource on this ...
 

It is time for the international community to go beyond the annual moment of silence on behalf of Hitler’s victims by unambiguously speaking out against the multiplying global anti-Semitism — including Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism masquerading as “anti-Zionism” — that is becoming more and more prevalent.  

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign claims to reject Holocaust denial, meaning they have vowed to oppose those who do violence to the memory of dead Jews. Despite this, 1 in 5 PSC members cannot bring themselves to condemn Holocaust-denying members, and many local PSC chapters contain activists with revisionist views on the Holocaust. The PSC has decided [...]  

euronewsObama pledges to combat denial on Holocaust commemoration dayJewish Telegraphic AgencyWASHINGTON (JTA) -- President Barack Obama pledged to combat Holocaust denial in a message marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In his message, Obama said the United States would “pledge to speak truth to those who deny the Holocaust.Austria's 2 faces: As some mourn Auschwitz victims, others gather for right ...Washington PostFar-right...