Holocaust

TikTok's latest rising star is a 98-year-old Holocaust survivor

The social media platform TikTok continues to prove itself to be more than just a platform for viral dance videos and pranks. It now has one of its oldest users sharing the reality of the Holocaust …

Sat Jan 29, 2022

'There's something going on very, very haywire' in Tennessee county's banning of 'Maus'

“Orwellian” was one of the choice words Art Spiegelman had to describe a Tennessee school board’s unanimous decision to ban his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus. “I’m kind of baffled by …

Thu Jan 27, 2022

Auschwitz Memorial responds after Robert Kennedy Jr. compares vaccine mandates to the Holocaust

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued to tarnish his family’s name with a speech at the anti-vaccine rally in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. Kennedy, who is suing Daily Kos over a user post reporting on his …

Mon Jan 24, 2022

This secretly recorded audio sums up what's so wrong with GOP-led critical race theory hysteria

In what feels like the inevitable (and deeply disturbing) result of pushing “other side” and “middle ground” rhetoric, a school administrator in Texas has been caught advising teachers to include a …

Fri Oct 15, 2021

‘I consider him a traitor’: Rep. Paul Gosar’s family calls for his expulsion from Congress

Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona is not well liked by those who know him well. His entire family has campaigned against him and endorsed his opponents no less than twice. Their argument is that …

Tue Jun 29, 2021

More data is in: Spike in antisemitic hate crimes in May part of longer-term increase since 2016

The Anti-Defamation League has released its most complete set of data yet on antisemitic incidents from last month, and the numbers are not good. There were 251 incidents over the final three weeks in …

Sun Jun 13, 2021

'NO NAZIS IN NASHVILLE': Hat company faces wrath after comparing COVID-19 response to Holocaust

In her sadly unoriginal attempt to convince the general public that pandemic response equated to the genocide of some six million Jewish men, women, and children, the owner of a Nashville hat company …

Sun May 30, 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest draws condemnation, but not from GOP 'leader' Kevin McCarthy

It’s been several days since Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s latest outrage-bait comments, in which she ratcheted up to comparing COVID-19 restrictions to the Holocaust, and several of her fellow …

Mon May 24, 2021

Member of Taylor Greene's own party describes her Holocaust comparison as 'beyond reprehensible'

During an appearance on Real America’s Voice, a conservative podcast, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene compared the requirement for members of the House to wear masks while on the chamber floor …

Sun May 23, 2021