By Gregory Korte, USA Today— WASHINGTON — President Obama warned of growing anti-Semitism in the United States and the world Wednesday as he honored two Americans and two Poles who helped save Jewish lives during World War II. “Here, tonight, we must confront the reality that around the world, anti-Semitism is on the rise. We…
By Aron Heller, Times of Israel— The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers in arms and sent to an uncertain fate. But Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds would have none of that. As the highest-ranking noncommissioned officer held in the German POW…
By Dr Inna Rogatchi (C) The European leadership loves commemorations. They love themselves in those endless selfies en masse, after every next sit-down or stand-up; at the pompous cloned gatherings; during speeches and cocktails. When it comes to the grimmest dates connected with the Holocaust and the other terrible atrocities of the WWII, the commemorations…
By Dr. Nesia Shemer, Israel Hayom— A quiet war has been raging for years and few but researchers in the field have paid it any attention. This war is a “war of history” that the Palestinian Authority has been waging against the State of Israel. The scandal surrounding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remark recently that…
By: Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today— A gross overstating is the worst that can be said about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s blaming the first “Palestinian” leader Haj Amin Al-Husseini for persuading Hitler to implement the “Final Solution to the Jewish Problem.” In his speech to the delegates to the 37th World Zionist Congress last week, Netanyahu…
By: Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Ph.D, Middle East Forum— Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has drawn criticism for comments about the role of al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem played in conceiving and perpetrating the Holocaust. Indeed, leading Nazi aides testified that al-Husaini was one of the instigators of the genocide. In his 1999 autobiography, a senior Nazi…
By: Ben Shapiro, Breitbart— In world history, Jews have never had it better than they have for the last two decades. The rise of Israel as a strong international power made it possible for Jews to feel safer all over the planet; the fall of the Soviet Union freed millions of Jews to leave that…
By: Cynthia Blank, Israel National News— Nearly one-third of American adults, if alive during the Holocaust, would refuse to shelter a Jew from the Nazis, a recent poll found. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the poll was conducted as part of a unique marketing ploy to promote the digital release of Return to the…