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Opinion: Nazi resistance fighters, Holocaust victims and the nonsense of COVID-19 denial – DW (English)

| November 25, 2020

Last week, a few politicians from the right-wing populist Alternative fr Deutschland (AfD) party referred to government-planned infection protection legislation as an "enabling law." A reminder: in March 1933, the Nazi-led government won the right to enact laws without the consent of the German Reichstag with that very law. The AfD was comparing regulations providing for contact restrictions to protect against a pandemic with a law that symbolized the end of parliamentary democracy and the beginning of Nazi tyranny. Read more:Can Germany's infection protectionlaw be compared to the Nazis' 'Enabling Act?' Unanimously condemned by historians and political scientists as historical nonsense, the remarks, nevertheless, have motivated coronavirus deniers.

MPs demand Amazon explain why Alexa ‘offers messages from antisemitic websites and conspiracy theories’ – Sky News

| November 25, 2020

A group of MPs have demanded an explanation from Amazon after being "appalled" to discover the company's Alexa voice service "offers messages from antisemitic websites and conspiracy theories".

In the first-ever expulsion, Lord Nazir Ahmed forced to quit from House of Lords – India New England

| November 25, 2020

New DelhiIn the first-ever expulsion of a peer in the history of the House of Lords in the UK, Lord Nazir Ahmed has controversially announced his retirement only to Pakistani news outlets, keeping silent in the UK. As per a report in Insight UK, the House of Lords Conduct Committee has published a report on Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham, concluding that for the first time ever, a peer should be expelled. The report finds Ahmed to have breached the Code of Conduct for failing to act on his personal honour over sexual assault and exploitation

Yad Vashem is selling its soul to shady right-wing racists and populists – Haaretz.com

| November 25, 2020

Four months have elapsed since an Israeli government minister, endorsed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, proposed Effi Eitam, former IDF Brigadier General and leader of the radical right-wing National Union party, to replace Avner Shalev as chairman of Yad Vashem. Although Eitams disturbing record is well-known, the outcry against his nomination has erupted only now. A petition, signed by hundreds of alarmed citizens from Israel and abroad, and by 750 scholars, Holocaust survivors, rabbis and employees of Jewish museums and archives, calls on the government to reconsider its decision

How David Adjaye Became the Worlds Most Beguiling Public Architectand Its Most Subversive – Robb Report

| November 25, 2020

A little more than a decade ago, David Adjaye hovered on the verge of bankruptcy, his budding architectural practice devastated by the Great Recession. Budgets were slashed, he recalls

The Impact of Toxicity on Retention and LTV. – Gamasutra

| November 25, 2020

The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutras community.The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. Conversion, software 7.0 Toxicity is eroding video game communities.

Wiesenthal Center warns about Parler opening ‘the door wide’ to anti-Semitism – JNS.org

| November 25, 2020

(November 19, 2020 / JNS) Parler, a social-media website founded in 2018 that prides itself on allowing virtually unfiltered viewpoint, has allowed anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry to flourish on its site, according to a report released on Thursday by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

For 75th Anniversary of Nuremberg Trials, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Makes Available Full Sound Recordings of Trials and Film Used as…

| November 21, 2020

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has made available online the full sound recordings of the War Crimes Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal(IMT) established in Nuremberg, Germany, commonly referred to as the Nuremberg Trials. Additionally, the film evidence presented by the World War II Allied prosecutors at the trial is now available for online viewing.

EmTech Stage: Facebooks CTO on misinformation – MIT Technology Review

| November 21, 2020

Misinformation and social media have become inseparable from one another; as platforms like Twitter and Facebook have grown to globe-spanning size, so too has the threat posed by the spread of false content. In the midst of a volatile election season in the US and a raging global pandemic, the power of information to alter opinions and save lives (or endanger them) is on full display.

Wiesenthal Center warns about Parler opening the door wide to anti-Semitism – Cleveland Jewish News

| November 21, 2020

Parler, a social-media website founded in 2018 that prides itself on allowing virtually unfiltered viewpoint, has allowed anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry to flourish on its site, according to a report released on Thursday by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The report details how Parler has taken no action against anti-Semitic and overt racist postings, including one depicting former U.S. President Barack Obama with a noose


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