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Category Archives: Simon Wiesenthal
Conference cracks down on web hate
REUTERS 2000: BERLIN — German President Johannes Rau called on Monday for a system of rules to govern the Internet to combat the rise in Web sites promoting racism and xenophobia. “We need a framework that sets boundaries for the … Continue reading
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Wiesenthal Center Urges New UC Committee for Hate Related Issues on Campus to Include State Department’s Definition of Anti-Semitism
In other words, they want to make opposition to Israel on UC Campuses to be illegal. Have these guys ever heard of the idea of over-reach? The State Department already has a department devoted to the Holocaust. I was watching … Continue reading
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American Jews & Immigration 2012
From the 2012 Jewish Yearbook: Another issue that continued to divide Americans was the status of an estimated 11 million undocumented aliens in the US. Arizona enacted legislation known as SB 1070 that some considered draconian. The law expressed as … Continue reading
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Steve Sailer: When the Mafia Got as Organized as the ADL
Steve Sailer writes: The Simon Wiesenthal Center and L.A.’s Museum of Tolerance were co-founded by the late subprime mortgage robber baron Roland Arnall, who got extra rich talking Latino immigrants into taking on high interest mortgages they couldn’t afford. I … Continue reading
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Wiesenthal Center Denounces Attempt by Russian Rodina Party to Join Forces With Western European Neo-Nazis and Fascists
From Wiesenthal.com: Jerusalem-The Simon Wiesenthal Center today denounced a Russian international conference convened by the Rodina party (the Russian National Patriotic Union) to establish a pan-European movement to lobby for Russia’s interests with the participation of West European neo-Nazis and … Continue reading
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Efraim Zuroff: One man’s journey to the heartland of fascism
Efraim Zuroff is a Simon Wiesenthal Center Nazi hunter and historian. For ethno-nationalists, Israel is a shining light of what a determined people can accomplish, but I guess if Jews develop an ethno-state, that’s a good thing, but if goyim … Continue reading
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Museum Of Tolerance Educating Police About Implicit Bias
The Museum of Tolerance and the Simon Wiesenthal Center are getting into the Ferguson racket. LOS ANGELES (AP): When law enforcement officers from around the U.S. visit the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles for training these days, they are … Continue reading
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Can Israel Do No Wrong?
I went to the website of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and put “Israel” in the search box. I got 2314 results. Judging by the headlines I read, not one press release was critical of the Jewish state. In just those … Continue reading
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Nazi Hunter: Nuremberg-esque march no way to celebrate Estonian independence
Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff writes: Tuesday’s march, which was sponsored by the Sinine Aratus (Blue Awakening) youth movement, closely affiliated with the Estonian Conservative People’s Party (EKRE), was a good example of at least one of the major problems we … Continue reading
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Wiesenthal Center Urges Vilnius, Lithuania Mayor to Cancel or Restrict Upcoming Neo-Nazi March
Link: March 4, 2015 Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center today urged Artūras Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, to cancel the upcoming neo-Nazi march scheduled to take place this coming Wednesday, March 11, Lithuanian Independence Day, in the center … Continue reading
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