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Pritzker: Bailey owes apology to Holocaust survivors for ‘offensive’ comparison to abortion

Pritzker also called on more Republicans to speak out against the comments. “Why can’t Republicans just stand up and say what Darren Bailey said was wrong?” Pritzker asked. “Why can’t they do that?”

Chicago Sun-Times

Darren Bailey says no apology needed for comparing Holocaust to abortion, contends Jewish community ‘told me that I’m right’

CHICAGO — Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey, who faced bipartisan criticism for declaring that Holocaust deaths during World War II paled in comparison with lives lost through abortion, contends Jewish community leaders have told him he was right.

Chicago Tribune

Germany Has Confronted Its Past. Now It Must Confront the Present.

Accepting—or rejecting—historical guilt for past evils doesn’t absolve nations of present-day responsibility.

Foreign Policy

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Trauma, stress felt by first responders is huge mental health risk

Haymarket Center will inaugurate the first in a series of three-day retreats to support law enforcement professionals who have experienced critical incident-related trauma.

Chicago Sun-Times

Grandmother's spirit drives walker Montag

Jemima Montag drew on the remarkable memory of her late grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, as she won gold in the women's 10,000m walk in Birmingham.

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GOP candidate for Illinois governor said Holocaust ‘doesn’t even compare’ to abortion in resurfaced 2017 video

Darren Bailey made the remarks in a 2017 video on Facebook

The Independent UK

Those who push religion into our government don’t belong there

Millions of Jews, LGBTQ people, gypsies and the disabled, were slaughtered with the goal of a “pure” society.

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Azov Special Forces Troops Hunted Down And Destroyed Two Russian BMP-3s In One Day

The Azov Regiment is a notorious group of soldiers who were officially incorporated into the National Guard of Ukraine in 2014.

Zenger

Czech Roma reclaim Holocaust site, but equality feels distant

After a years-long campaign by Roma activists, a pig farm that stood on a former concentration camp is being removed.

Al Jazeera

Bailey tries to explain past Holocaust remark after Pritzker, Jewish leaders and others denounce it

“The attempted extermination of the Jews of World War II doesn’t even compare on a shadow of the life that has been lost with abortion since its legalization,” Bailey said in a 2017 video. On Tuesday, Bailey tried to smooth out his earlier comments, saying in a statement the Holocaust…

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois Gov. Pritzker launches ad criticizing GOP rival for saying Holocaust ‘doesn’t compare’ to lives lost to abortion

CHICAGO — Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker launched a TV spot on Tuesday criticizing Republican challenger Darren Bailey for a 2017 statement in which the wealthy downstate farmer contended the Holocaust during World War II pales in comparison with lives lost through abortion.

Chicago Tribune

Tikkun Olam review – gripping dissection of identity politics and the culture wars

Centred around a proposed Holocaust memorial, this debut from playwright Teunkie Van Der Sluijs probes the intersections of Black and Jewish identity with an eloquent flair

The Guardian - UK

Bayern, Chelsea teens play in Holocaust memorial tournament

Some of Europe’s best soccer players from the under-17 teams of Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Bologna and other international clubs have taken part in the Walther Bensemann Memorial Tournament in Nuremberg

The Independent UK

Alarm grows as Orban prepares to take ‘pure Nazi’ rhetoric to US

Hungarian leader’s aide who quit over ‘race mixing’ remarks said his words have a chilling potential

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The Independent UK

Jewish volunteers bond with Ukrainian kids at summer camp

A summer camp in Poland's capital has brought Jewish volunteers originally from Russia or other parts of the former Soviet Union to mentor Ukrainian refugee children

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Holocaust survivors slam 'stupid, dangerous' remarks by Hungary's Orban

Jewish community representatives on Tuesday voiced alarm after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban spoke out against creating "peoples of mixed race".

Al Jazeera

Outrage after Hungary PM Viktor Orban’s ‘pure Nazi’ speech

Orban has been strongly criticised for speaking out against creating ‘peoples of mixed race’.

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France 24

Holocaust survivors condemn race remarks by Hungary's Orban

Jewish community representatives on Tuesday voiced alarm after Hungarian leader Viktor Orban spoke out against creating "peoples of mixed-race".

The Conversation

There is a lot of antisemitic hate speech on social media – and algorithms are partly to blame

Antisemitic incidents have shown a sharp rise in the United States. The Anti-Defamation League, a New York-based Jewish civil rights group that has been tracking cases since 1979, found that there were 2,717 incidents in 2021. This represents an increase of 34% over 2020. In Europe, the European Commission found…

Los Angeles Times

Nicholas Goldberg: Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?

Watching the Jan. 6 committee hearings, one could be forgiven for believing we're living in the heyday of conspiracy theories, between the Holocaust denialism of the Oath Keepers, the loony pedophilia fears of the QAnoners and the "Stop the Steal" ravings of Sidney Powell, Rudolph W. Giuliani and former President…

Tribune News Service

Holocaust Museum condemns swastika flags outside Turning Point USA summit

TAMPA, Fla. — Calling it “an indefensible act of hatred,” the Florida Holocaust Museum sharply condemned demonstrations at the Tampa Convention Center where a group of neo-fascists waved flags with swastikas outside Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit.

The Guardian - AU

‘He could not expel the trauma’: Sidney Nolan’s Auschwitz paintings revealed in landmark show

Preoccupied with the inhumanity of Nazi Germany, the artist painted 220 works in just four weeks: a ‘rambling, tumbling turmoil’ that he did not speak of for decades

Evening Standard

Jimmy Carr criticised for comparing 9/11 to One Direction on Netflix series

The comic is again under fire following his holocaust joke last Christmas

Daily Mirror

Jimmy Carr blasted over dark 9/11 joke in new Netflix show just months after Holocaust gag

Jimmy Carr's latest controversial joke is included in the streaming giant's new show, The Best Of Netflix Is A Joke: The Festival

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