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Fired ‘Times’ columnist has a history of Holocaust denial – The Jerusalem Post

| July 31, 2017

A man buys a Sunday newspaper at a news stand in London July 17, 2011.. (photo credit:REUTERS/SUZANNE PLUNKETT) The Sunday Times, one of the largest-selling British newspapers, pulled an opinion column on Sunday and fired the writer after he was accused of antisemitism. Also, eight years ago the same columnist published a statement denying the Holocaust, "...six million Jews were not murdered by the Third Reich."A statement only recently removed from the Irish Independent website.

Blaming the Jews for anti-Semitism – Haaretz

| July 31, 2017

Anti-Jewish agitators in every era claim they're only responding to the 'actual' misdeeds of Jews. For violent Islamists and the left, Israel's occupation is just the latest iteration Identifying anti-Semitism and working out how to challenge and overcome it is no easy task, but in more than two decades of work and study in this field Ive come up with one simple rule: Dont mimic the anti-Semites you're fighting

For Facebook, erasing hate speech proves a daunting challenge – Washington Post

| July 31, 2017

Francie Latour was picking out produce in a suburban Boston grocery store when a white man leaned toward her two young sons and, just loudly enough for the boys to hear, unleashed a profanity-laced racist epithet. Reeling, Latour, who is black, turned to Facebook to vent, in a post that was explicit about the hateful words hurled at her 8- and 12-year-olds on a Sunday evening in July. I couldnt tolerate just sitting with it and being silent, Latour said in an interview

Hasidic Murals Vandalized Amidst Debate About Late Rabbi’s Portrait – Forward

| July 31, 2017

Facebook Three newly-painted public murals of the Lubavitcher Rebbe were vandalized in Crown Heights late last week, exposing an ongoing debate about the image of the movements late charismatic leader who is revered as the Messiah by a vocal segment of the community. The community website Collive uploaded surveillance footage on Friday of two young men vandalizing one mural located on Kingston Avenue, the main artery of Hasidic Crown Heights by crossing out the portrait with black paint

Mendelssohn’s philosophy, Mendelssohn’s grandchildren – The Jerusalem Post

| July 31, 2017

According to Daniel B. Schwartz in his study of The First Modern Jew the historian is referring to Baruch Spinoza as that trailblazer he discusses the descendants of German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, who was influenced by the heretic of Amsterdam. Of Mendelssohns six children, Schwartz writes, four converted [to Christianity], all following their fathers death in 1786


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