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St. Louis Jewish Light

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Facebook debuts new fact check box to combat Holocaust denial

Ron KampeasPublished January 27, 2021

(JTA) — People who search for information about the Holocaust on Facebook will now be prompted to visit a website on the genocide curated by the World Jewish Congress and UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.Starting...

Rachel Weisz plays Holocaust studies professor, Deborah Lipstadt who faces off with writer David Irving in ‘Denial.’

‘Denial’ recounts 90’s Holocaust court battle

By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish LightPublished October 5, 2016

“Denial” is a film adaption of Deborah Lipstadt’s book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.” In the late 1990s, British writer David Irving sued Jewish-American historian Lipstadt in British court for libel, for calling...

Clinton: Remain vigilant against Holocaust denial

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished July 24, 2012

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Holocaust denial and Israel criticism that crosses into anti-Semitism require vigilance. On Tuesday, Clinton addressed a symposium at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on preventing genocide....

Greek political party stresses commitment against anti-Semitism

JTAPublished February 26, 2012

ATHENS, Greece -- Antonis Samaras, the leader of Greece's New Democracy Party, reaffirmed his personal and the party's commitment against anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Samaras stressed in an e-mail to the American Jewish Committee that the party's...

German court tosses conviction of Holocaust-denying bishop

JTAPublished February 23, 2012

BERLIN -- A German court has set aside a guilty verdict against a Holocaust-denying bishop on a technicality, but the defendant will face justice again, prosecutors say. The Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg on Wednesday threw out the conviction of British...

AJC’s Harris calls Iranian president ‘Holocaust denier-in-chief’

JTAPublished January 31, 2012

ATHENS -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the "Holocaust denier-in-chief," American Jewish Committee Executive Director David Harris in Greece. "The Holocaust denier-in-chief is the president of Iran. This is shameful enough. What I find no less...

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