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German Jewish college shuns skullcaps after attack on rabbi

BERLIN (Reuters) - One of the first rabbis ordained in Germany since the Holocaust has been beaten up on a Berlin street, prompting a seminary to advise its students not to wear skullcaps in public....

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The meaning of the Holocaust for J'cans

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Known in Hebrew as Yom HaShoah, it is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Nazi genocide carried during...

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BOOK REVIEW: The Kaiser’s Holocaust

The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism is an unnerving historical account of the oppression and abuse of a people. Germans under the rule of Kaiser...

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Far right on rise in Europe

Golden Dawn supporters in Greece await national election results in May. Photo: AP WHEN France's far-right National Front was newly minted in the 1970s, the people who backed it were stereotyped as...

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Why is Germany republishing Hitler's Mein Kampf?

The ur-text of Nazism had been out of print in Germany since the Fuhrer died in 1945, and its resurrection is a landmark event in the country's struggle with the past In 1924, nine years before he...

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German victims of right-wing terror compensated

Germany's Federal Office of Justice has awarded over 800,000 euros to victims of the National Socialist Underground. The compensation comes nearly one year after the right-wing extremist group was...

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Germany wakes up to threat from far right

Investigators conducted 700 inquiries into Islamic and left-wing extremists, compared to 13 into the extreme right, writes DEREK SCALLY�in Berlin FOR 14 years, the underground neo-Nazi gang shot and...

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Germany bans neo-Nazi group aiding far-right prisoners

Germany has banned its biggest neo-Nazi association, the HNG, which supports far-right prisoners in German jails. The Interior Ministry said the group, with its racist, anti-Semitic agenda, was a...

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Police competence questioned in neo-Nazi case

Suspected neo-Nazi terrorist Beate Zschäpe has been charged with murder. But accusations are also being made against authorities in Germany. Criticism includes claims of racism, missing documents and...

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The right dons a fresh face

Youth vote ... Thibault and Camille, above, and Karime, left, the grandson of North African emigrants, support France's National Front. Golden Dawn rally in Athens. Photo: Alastair Miller When...

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Holocaust - Days of Remembrance

Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust and the Jews who were killed by the Nazis in Europe during World War II. Holocaust remembrance week...

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Giulio Meotti: Op-Ed – Why Did Frankfurt´s “Judenrat”...

AND HERE COMES THE ISRAEL-LOBBY: ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS What is most disturbing in the Butler affair is not only that the prize's recipient is an anti-Israel agitator, the version of the old Kapò; it is...

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Anti-Islam Sites Under German Surveillance

Berlin, January 09: Worried that their anti-Muslim rhetoric undermines their society, German authorities are planning to place right-wing website under closer surveillance, throwing a spotlight on...

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Germany bans largest neo-Nazi organization

Germany has banned its largest neo-Nazi association, the HNG, which supports prisoners with far-right views and their families, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday, the government's latest step to...

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Germany bans its biggest neo-Nazi group

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has banned its largest neo-Nazi association, the HNG, which supports prisoners with far-right views and their families, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday, the...

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German right-wing terrorism victims compensated

The German justice office has awarded over $1 million to victims of the National Socialist Underground. The compensation comes nearly one year of after the right-wing extremist group was disbanded....

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Germany marks Holocaust Day with call for stand against neo-Nazis

Berlin/Warsaw - The German parliament marked Holocaust Memorial Day Friday with a call for the nation's citizens to make a stand against the threat posed by the extreme right. 'There are people who...

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Germany holds inflamed debate on Islam and migration

HAMBURG (Reuters) - Germany's inflamed public debate about Islam and integration risks serious overheating as politicians compete to make ever tougher statements criticising Muslims immigrants they...

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Middle East conflict prompting anti-Semitism in Germany, experts say

Rehburg-Loccum, Germany - The Middle East conflict is prompting a rise of anti-Semitism amongst migrant communities in Germany, a conference heard Tuesday. Sociologists and experts on ethnic...

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Germany backs neo-Nazi database after far-right murders

German ministers have approved plans to establish a national register of far-right extremists, after revelations of 10 neo-Nazi murders since 2000. It is thought there are almost 10,000 neo-Nazis in...

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Germany wakes up to festering neo-Nazi threat

BERLIN (Reuters) - After 30 years living in eastern Germany, Mozambique-born Ibrahimo Alberto this summer decided he could endure no more daily racist abuse. He turned his back on his job, gave up on...

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Merkel deplores anti-Jewish sentiment in Germany

FRANKFURT - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday deplored the "high level of anti-Semitism" in her country, speaking after a meeting with the Central Council of Jews. Touching on a heated debate...

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Remarks to the American Leadership Initiative for Muslims

Wednesday, 7 September 2011, 11:37 am Speech: US State Department Remarks Hannah Rosenthal Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Bethesda Hyatt, Maryland September 2, 2011...

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Common Reading lecture in November: Holocaust work informs professor's race...

(Source: Washington State University) By Phyllis Shier, College of Arts and Sciences PULLMAN, Wash.  - Research by a Washington State University professor last summer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial...

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Pius' role in the Holocaust deserves more scrutiny

related articles Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial softens stance on Pius XII By Nir Hasson | Jul.01,2012 | 1:48 PM | 6 From the beginning, the Yad Vashem Museum was created to reflect Israel's...

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  Europe’s Jews And The Future They Face – An Interview With Dr....

Posted: June 14, 2012 The recent news out of Europe has been quite disturbing. First on March 19, 2012, the world was stunned by the murders in Toulouse, France of a Rabbi and three young Jewish...

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Why 13 percent of Germans would welcome a 'Führer'

Paris – A new survey in Germany shows that 13 percent of its citizens would welcome a “Führer” – a German word for leader that is explicitly associated with Adolf Hitler – to run the country “with a...

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JDL and far-right parties find common ground

Right-wing movements previously associated with anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi ideologies are increasingly opting for a surprising tactic to garner legitimacy within mainstream politics: Forging alliances...

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Germans honor victims

Visiting the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin earlier this month brought home to me how much hatred lay at the heart of Nazi ideology, allowing so many to participate in a...

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Q&A: German far right bucks European trend

While far-right or right-wing populist parties have won seats in national parliaments in countries such as France, Italy and the Netherlands, no similar breakthrough has occurred in Germany despite a...

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Germany indicts alleged member of neo-Nazi terror cell

German prosecutors have indicted a woman alleged to be the third member of a neo-Nazi group behind a seven-year racially motivated killing spree. Germany's federal prosecution service said it had...

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The more things change �ro� European anti-semitism

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a think tank linked to the center-left Social Democrats, this week published the results of a survey into the right-wing attitudes of Germans. A sample finding: some...

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Study: Anti-Semitism is still flourishing throughout Germany

About 20 percent of Germans have a "latent" hatred for Jews, according to a new study published by an independent committee of experts appointed by the German parliament. The German-language study was...

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Anti-foreigner bias grows among east Germans-study

BERLIN (Reuters) - More than a third of Germans living in the former communist east harbour hostility towards foreigners, according to a report published on Monday, showing an increase of 30 percent...

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Anti-foreigner bias grows among east Germans - study

BERLIN (Reuters) - More than a third of Germans living in the former communist east harbour hostility towards foreigners, according to a report published on Monday, showing an increase of 30 percent...

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Your Link to Germany

Along with many other prejudices, eastern Germany has had to contend with a reputation for neo-Nazism. It's not entirely unjustified, but right-wing extremism in the East has roots in economic...

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Far-right views gaining traction in Germany

DEREK SCALLY, in Berlin Far-right views are increasingly widespread in Germany with one-in-six easterners sharing xenophobic and anti-Semitic views, a survey suggests. The biennial Friedrich Ebert...

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J'Acuse: Shame on Germany for Circumcision Ban

Why do countries with long histories of anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry seem to care more about the so-called rights of young children not to be circumcised than do other countries in the...

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German politician 'sorry' for missing right-wing evidence

An ex-German politician has apologized for a botched inquiry following a 2004 terrorist attack in Cologne. The investigative committee said the mistake led police away from discovering a right-wing...

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Survey findings on far-right views give Germany its latest F�hrer furore

DEREK SCALLY in Berlin After almost a decade of decline, a poll indicates that views in favour of dictatorship, xenophobia and anti-Semitism are risingGERMANY IS undergoing its annual F�hrer furore,...

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The German right moves to the centre

By Peter Goodspeed, National Post October 19, 2010 12:00 AM --> . Photograph by: Andrew Barr, National Post, National Post Germany's torrid debates over immigration, Islam and integration may not...

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Germany drifting dangerously to the right, study says

Berlin - One in three Germans thinks that the country has too many foreigners, and over one in ten wants to be back in dictatorship, a survey published by a left-wing Berlin think-tank said Wednesday....

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Germans move to quash rising right-wing extremism

Councilman Jörg Lämmerhirt wanted people to stop looking the other way. In his Dresden districts, including one of myriad shoe-box-shaped "" – housing communities that communists in the former East...

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Study: Right-wing extremism on the rise in Germany

A study released by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation says that 9 percent of Germans harbor extreme right-wing views. The proportion of East Germans with extreme right-wing beliefs continues to rise. The...

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Far-right successor to NPD waits in the wings

As German politicians debate banning the extreme right-wing NPD, a new right-wing party has crept onto the political scene. The Right appears ready to take over political leadership of the far-right....

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Zionism, anti-Semitism and colonialism

Ever since the inception of the Zionist movement, Zionist thinkers presented their national colonial project as a response to anti-Semitism. Whereas Zionists saw anti-Semitism as a symptom, if not a...

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day marked at Auschwitz and beyond

related articles If a ghetto is liquidated and no one lives to remember it, can it be memorialized? By Ofer Aderet | Jan.27,2013 | 7:58 PM | 3 British MP compares Jewish treatment of Palestinians to...

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  Student Punished For Nazi Salute

Posted: February 7, 2013 A 14-year-old UK student has been accused of mimicking his teacher in a racist manner. When she used her hand to gesture quiet to the class, Ben Hayward stretched out his left...

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