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News Mass Killer Breivik Makes Nazi Salute Again at Jail Conditions Appeal
Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik gave a Nazi salute on Tuesday to a court where Norway appealed against a ruling that it has violated his human rights by keeping him in virtual isolation since he massacred 77 people in 2011. Breivik, in a black suit and striped tie and a beard he has grown in…
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News Jewish Couple Gets Nazi Letter After Hanging ‘Black Lives Matter’ Sign
After Sonya and Michael Franklin hung up a “Black Lives Matter” sign outside their Rockville, Maryland, home, the Jewish couple received an anti-Semitic threat letter and saw their property vandalized. “It has come to our attention that you support the black terror group that is ant-white and anti-police,” the letter pinned to their windshield read….
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Community When National Bobblehead Day Isn’t A Laughing Matter
Mark your calendar: January 7th is the 3rd Annual Bobblehead Day. Ordinarily I would pay as little attention to National Bobblehead Day as to “Name Your Car Day” and those sundry national calendar days promoted on social media feeds. But during these extraordinary times, I can’t stop thinking about the bobblehead that I inherited —…
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Culture Philosopher Martin Heidegger Spent Years Trying To Convince His Brother To Become A Nazi
Martin Heidegger, the much celebrated and much maligned German philosopher, is back in the news. As it turns out, his Naziism and anti-Semitism run far deeper than originally thought (we already knew it was bad, but it’s gotten worse). The Los Angeles Review of Books recently published a review (a translation of a piece that…
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Community A Holocaust Survivor’s Second Battle and a Dog Named Hexe
Sigmund Zlodak felt fine when he settled into his First Class seat on the 7 PM flight to St. Louis. Sig was the chief accountant for an investment firm in St. Louis; he had attended a two-day tax seminar in Denver, and he felt mentally fatigued after his close attention to the lectures on new…
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Fast Forward Taiwan High School Students Throw Nazi Salutes and Parade
Israel’s consulate in Taiwan is not happy after local high school students held a Nazi parade as part of holiday celebrations, something that the students reportedly saw as dress-up. “Schools should educate for tolerance and understanding among people, and we are deeply disappointed that this took place in Taiwan,” the Jewish state’s diplomatic mission in…
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News Among White Nationalists, Catchy New Shorthand for the ‘Jewish Question’
When Nazi strategists gathered on the shores of Lake Wannsee outside Berlin to plan the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe,” they probably did not imagine future neo-Nazis using catchy shorthand for their ideas. As white nationalists rebrand their movement with the moniker “alt-right,” the Jewish Question has re-emerged with a new name…
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Fast Forward How Did ‘Swastika Trees’ Appear in a German Forest?
Long after Germans pulled down monuments to Nazi rule, there remained a forest outside Berlin that each fall would commemorate the Third Reich. Planted by an unknown person, the forest in the town of Zernikow was mostly evergreen pine trees. But a few strategically placed trees belonged to a different breed and would turn yellow…
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