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Category Archives: Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal Center Pushes Online Censorship
From the Los Angeles Times: Twitter revises policy banning threats and abuse Twitter has revised its rules of conduct to emphasize that it prohibits violent threats and abusive behavior by users, promising a tough stance at a time when critics … Continue reading
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center Vs Geert Wilders
Geert Wilders is one of the giants of our age. He puts his life at risk to save Holland and Europe from conquest by Muslims. Of course the Simon Wiesenthal Center hates him. Wilders is on the side of Western … Continue reading
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Simon Wiesenthal Center Policing Web, Gets Rid Content It Does Not Like Through Partnership With Google, Twitter, Facebook
Yahoo reports: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up efforts to combat online propaganda and recruiting by Islamic militants, but the Internet companies are doing it quietly to avoid the perception that they are helping the … Continue reading
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French comic convicted in Belgium for anti-Semitic jokes
I am so glad to see Jewish groups in Europe leading the way to restrict speech and to send people to prison for jokes. REPORT: A Belgian court sentenced controversial French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala on Wednesday to two months … Continue reading
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SWC’s R. Marvin Hier Uses Tired Holocaust Analogy With Syrian Refugees
This Los Angeles Times article quotes nobody opposed to America taking in more Syrian refugees. It does not mention the moral imperative for the Jewish state to take in Muslims who hate it. How come only Gentile countries have to? … Continue reading
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Jewish Elite Solution To ISIS: Invade Middle East, Restrict Free Speech
Rabbi Abraham Cooper writes: Someone’s boots—perhaps NATO’s— will have to get on the ground so that the ISIS snake can be beheaded, not innocent Christians, Muslims, and Yazidis. Large-scale ISIS casualties and destruction of their training bases will destroy their … Continue reading
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What’s Good For Jews Is Sometimes Bad For Others
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …From the 1970s on, the growth sector in the Jewish organizational world consisted of old and new “schrei gevalt” agencies, while those with other agendas, like … Continue reading
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SWC to Work with Chicago TV Station WGN to Promote Holocaust Education Following Yom Kippur Incident
This is a relief! From Wiesenthal.com: September 25, 2015 (CHICAGO)- The Simon Wiesenthal Center has been in contact with Larry Wert, President of Tribune Broadcasting and Greg Easterly, General Manager of WGN-TV Chicago following the recent incident where a staff … Continue reading
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The Holocaust in American Life
Why does the Holocaust play such a large role in American life? And is that a good thing? American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …Serb’s central memory, the lost Battle of Kosovo … Continue reading
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Canadian Immigration Lawyer With Strong Ties To Simon Wiesenthal Center
From the bio of Evan Green: Evan Green is a partner at Green and Spiegel LLP in Toronto. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Toronto and York University. After attending the University of Ottawa, where he graduated with … Continue reading
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