Holocaust denial

A week inside the echo chamber: How Jew-hatred moved from fringe to feed

An inside look at the online ecosystem where antisemitic narratives spread at alarming speed

Public channels on the platform are among the online spaces researchers monitor for antisemitic content.Premium
Palestinian women walk past a mural of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Hebron on the 21st anniversary of Arafat’s death. Ruth Wasserman Lande argues that the Palestinian narrative was created by the Soviet Union.

Middle Israel: How Jews and Palestinians became masters of historical denial

A memorial service commemorating 85 years since the Jedwabne massacre.

Polish nationalists protest memorial to 1941 Jedwabne massacre, call it 'Jewish lies'

The main gate to Auschwitz with slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei'

Germany launches ShoutOut platform to fight Holocaust denial and antisemitism online


Lecture on Holocaust in Poland canceled after far-right lawmaker storms podium

Grzegorz Braun, of the Confederation party, later said he disrupted the event to defend Poland’s good name against Grabowski’s “historical propaganda.” 

Grzegorz Braun, far-right MP and one of the leaders of Confederation Liberty and Independence, and Justyna Socha, one of anti-vaccination movement STOP NOP leaders, walk during a rally against measures imposed by the Polish government to stem the spread of the coronavirus disease in Warsaw

Wikipedia disciplines editors in Holocaust distortion dispute but sidesteps Poland debate

The online encyclopedia stopped short of taking more aggressive action in response to allegations of widespread Holocaust distortion on the platform. 

 Wikipedia logo (illustrative).

Abbas’s war of instruction at the UN - opinion

In his twisted logic, Abbas thinks Israel’s only remaining connection to sympathy is the Holocaust, so the more he can deconstruct it, the more he breaks down Israel’s armor.

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the China-Arab summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 9, 2022.

Abbas’s hate speech does nothing to end the conflict - editorial

Abbas’s speech was a reiteration of old lies and libels against Israel and the Jewish people.

 PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas holds up maps of the Palestinian compromise, addressing the UN Security Council, in 2020. But after the 1947 Partition Plan, local Arab leaders encouraged Palestinian Arabs to flee, says the writer.

Israeli gov't adopts additional sections of IHRA antisemitism definition

The IHRA definition of antisemitism was adopted already in 2017. The additional sections relate to the alliance’s decision on “Holocaust denial and distortion” and anti-Roma discrimination.

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 7, 2023.

Suspect arrested for Holocaust denial projection on Anne Frank House

The suspect had travelled to Poland shortly after the projection and extradition attempts are now being made.

 ANNE FRANK’S diary is on display at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Anne told a friend that the moment she learned she no longer had a family she interpreted this as the end of the world.

Letters to the Editor April 25, 2023: Climate threats

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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ADL Holocaust denial report rates all social media platforms poorly

The report came after the Anti-Defamation League reviewed several major outlet platforms and Holocaust denial-related comments on their content.

 A WOMAN stands next to walls etched with the names of Holocaust victims, during a funeral for the remains of victims in the Jewish cemetery in Budapest, 2016

David Strathairn plays historic Holocaust witness Jan Karski in PBS's 'Remember This'

“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski” airs on PBS as part of the broadcaster’s “Great Performances” series.

 JAN KARSKI gestures doing a Reuters TV interview in 1997 at the Wannsee villa in Berlin, where in 1942, Hitler's deputies plotted the Final Solution to murder Europe's Jews.

Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust

A Polish group has taken to Wikipedia to distort Holocaust history – all while finding a way to evade editors on the website.

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