richards | July 6, 2017
The contest, which began Monday and lasts an entire week, has received entries from 1,614 Iranian and foreign participants from 74 countries. Four Americans participated in the contest, and two received special recognition for their work.
richards | July 4, 2017
Holocaust denial is an attempt to negate the established facts of the Nazi genocide of European Jewry.
admin | July 4, 2017
BERLIN (JTA) The German parliament passed a new law Friday designed to curb hate speech and libel on social networks. The law requires Internet platforms likeFacebook, Twitter and YouTube to remove material with obviouslyillegal content and fake defamatory newswithin 24 hoursof itshaving been reported
admin | July 3, 2017
Iranian cartoonist Hadi Asadi won the first prize Monday at Iran's International Trumpism Cartoon and Caricature Contest. Asadi's work was one of thousands competing in the new competition, which ran the gamut from funny to insulting to downright apocalyptic, and followed in wake of the Islamic Republic's infamous annual Holocaust cartoon contest
simmons | July 2, 2017
BERLIN (JTA) Germanys top Jewish leader praised a new lawdesigned to curb Holocaust denial on social networks. The German Parliament passed the lawFriday in its lastmeeting before summer break.
simmons | June 30, 2017
BERLIN The Austrian Constitutional Court said Friday that the government had acted legally when it seized the apartment complex in which Hitler was born, the latest and most likely last chapter in the long battle for ownership of the Nazi dictators birthplace. The court said in a statement that a law passed late last year allowing the expropriation of the three-story building was in the public interest, commensurate and not without compensation, and therefore not unconstitutional. Advertisement Austrian law prohibits the promotion of Nazi ideology, including Holocaust denial or the display of swastikas
richards | June 28, 2017
Facebook's content rules are under scrutiny again. A recent ProPublica report gives greater insight about how Facebook determines who to protect from hate speech on the platform.
simmons | June 27, 2017
Yuli Edelstein. (photo credit:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelsteins visit to Moscow will involve discussions aiming to reach agreements on security matters, he said at the start of a meeting Tuesday with Valentina Matviyenko, his counterpart in the Federation Council. Edelstein praised the cooperation between the defense committees of the two parliaments, but pointed out there are points of disagreement
simmons | June 27, 2017
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (AP/Steven Senne) (AP/Steven Senne) Facebook will not block Holocaust-denying content on its platform in countries where it remains legal, saying it is merely the expression of an opinion.
richards | June 26, 2017
More than 2,100 people have signed a petition to keep conspiracy theorist and alleged Holocaust denier Kevin Barret from speaking at a rally in Toronto. Jewish advocacy group Bnai Brith launched the petition after Barrett was invited to speak at the al-Quds march that will start at Queens Park on Saturday. Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of Bnai Brith Canada called the event an absolute hate fest.
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