As the world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jewish community stands at a poignant crossroads of memory and resilience.
<a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-892865">New data</a> from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reveals a staggering truth: eight decades after the Nazi regime attempted to extinguish the Jewish flame, the global Jewish population has climbed to 15.8 million. While this remains just shy of the 16.6 million recorded in 1939, the trajectory represents a defiant rebound from the 11.5 million left in the wake of the Shoah.
This recovery is nothing short of miraculous when viewed through the lens of a history defined by systematic attempts at annihilation. The Jewish story did not begin with the gas chambers; it has been a millennia-long gauntlet of survival. From the dawn of history, the Jewish people faced the Egyptian Oppression and the military campaigns of Merneptah, who boasted of laying Israel to waste. The iron fist of Mesopotamia followed, with the Assyrian Conquest of 722 BCE and the Babylonian Siege of 586 BCE, which saw the First Temple reduced to ash.
Even when the Jews fought back, as they did against the Hellenizing forces of Antiochus IV during the Maccabean Revolt, the reprieve was often brief. The Roman era brought a new level of carnage: the First Jewish-Roman War and the Kitos War left hundreds of thousands dead, culminating in the Bar Kokhba Revolt, where half a million Jews perished under Hadrian’s legions.
The Middle Ages and the Early Modern period offered no sanctuary. The Rhineland Massacres of the First Crusade, the horrific Strasbourg Massacre during the Black Death, the state-sanctioned fires of the Spanish Inquisition, and the blood-soaked Khmelnytsky Uprising all served to suppress Jewish numbers through sheer brutality. By the 19th and early 20th centuries, the &#8220;pogrom&#8221; became a staple of Eastern European life, from the 1881–1884 riots to the Kishinev Pogrom to the post-WWI slaughter in Ukraine.
Then came the Holocaust—an industrialized nightmare where Babi Yar, Operation Reinhard, and Auschwitz-Birkenau became synonyms for the abyss. Yet, as we look at the 111,000 survivors still living in Israel today, we see the living embodiment of &#8220;Never Again.&#8221;
Despite the constant threat from the Arab world, which has been at war with the Jewish state since its inception, today, 45% of the world&#8217;s Jews—7.2 million—call Israel home, a radical shift from the 3% who lived there in 1939. While threats persist, evidenced by the horrific October 7 massacre, the data tell a story of an indestructible people. Despite a history of massacres designed to erase them, the Jewish community has clawed its way back from the brink, nearing a return to its pre-war strength and a vibrant, growing, and eternal presence.

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Joy Behar strained the imagination with her latest comparison, claiming on &#8220;The View&#8221; that ousted CNN anchor Don Lemon was just like the late World War II General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Behar recalled Eisenhower&#8217;s efforts to document the atrocities of the concentration camps — and then claimed that when Lemon shadowed protesters as they stormed a church in Minneapolis, he was simply making a similar effort to preserve history.
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&#8220;So, I mean, all I can say is it&#8217;s in the Constitution, the right to protest,&#8221; Behar began, making no mention of the rights of the churchgoers to practice their religion without fear of intimidation and threats. She then pivoted to argue that Lemon — who was captured on video discussing the protest plans with one of the organizers before entering the church — was not there to protest anyway.
&#8220;And he wasn&#8217;t even there protesting. He was there as a journalist,&#8221; she insisted.
&#8220;Correct,&#8221; cohost Sunny Hostin agreed.
&#8220;And I think they want to use him as some kind of an example to intimidate other journalists,&#8221; Behar added, parroting the exact claim made by Lemon after he was arrested in connection with the protest.
&#8220;But, you know, I was reading something the other day about World War II, when the Americans liberated Dachau, after World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower said take pictures of these concentration camps because years will go by and people will not believe this happened,&#8221; Behar continued. &#8220;So, this administration does not really like somebody like Don Lemon who has a camera, who has a position like we do in a way to speak to the people and tell them what really is going on.&#8221;
But Behar did not explain how Lemon&#8217;s video of protesters disrupting a church service aligned with the photos taken of Jewish Holocaust victims at Eisenhower&#8217;s behest.
&#8220;So, you know, God bless Dwight D. Eisenhower and Don Lemon,&#8221; she concluded.
Critics were not impressed with Behar&#8217;s conclusion, however.
&#8220;In one of the most tortured Holocaust metaphors in modern history, @ABC News&#8217; employee Joy Behar suggests that Don Lemon breaking up a church service is like Eisenhower sending in journalists to witness concentration camps. In her metaphor, church attendees &#8230; are the Nazis,&#8221; Matt Whitlock <a href="https://x.com/MattWhitlock/status/2019063576883761276">observed</a>.
&#8220;The hottest take yet is that Cities Church in St. Paul is basically another Dachau,&#8221; Jerry Dunleavy <a href="https://x.com/JerryDunleavy/status/2019080949057663303">added</a>.
And <a href="https://x.com/ChuckRossDC/status/2019084337619099840">from</a> Chuck Ross, &#8220;ABC&#8217;s Joy Behar literally comparing Nazi concentration camps to a church where an ICE employee serves as an associate pastor.&#8221;
&#8220;What exactly does Joy Behar think was going on inside Cities Church?!&#8221; Jorge Bonilla <a href="https://x.com/BonillaJL/status/2018750802223935841">said</a>.

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum fired off a response on Monday, rebuking Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) after he compared United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to Nazis and claimed the next &#8220;Anne Frank&#8221; would be a little girl in Minnesota fearing deportation.
The statement was posted by the museum&#8217;s official X account — and while it acknowledged the difficult situation that has been unfolding in Minnesota, it also said that the clearly political motivation behind Walz&#8217;s comparison that suggested American federal agents were no different from the Nazis was a bridge too far.
&#8220;Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges,&#8221; the <a href="https://x.com/HolocaustMuseum/status/2015830385331216482">post read</a>.
Walz sparked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-walz-compares-immigration-agents-to-nazis-says-minnesota-is-home-to-new-anne-frank-story">the backlash</a> during a recent press conference — following a fatal shooting involving Border Patrol agents — where he said, &#8220;We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is going to write that children’s story about Minnesota.&#8221;
Walz, who has previously referred to federal immigration officials as “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo,&#8221; is not the only Democrat making such comparisons. During a Sunday appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; newly-elected Governor Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) said ICE agents were like the communist Stasi — the East German secret police.
Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), widely considered to be a leading contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, trashed federal law enforcement while in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum. Newsom took aim at Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino in particular, saying, &#8220;Greg Bovino is dressed up as if he literally went on eBay and purchased SS garb. Secret police … Private army … Masked men.&#8221;
Law enforcement officials and leaders within the Trump administration have pushed back, arguing that such rhetoric has been a driving force behind the exponential increase in assaults and death threats against federal law enforcement officers and their families.

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Interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the daughter of an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor injured in the Bondi Beach massacre blasted the network, along with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong, for their handling of the tragedy.
“He’s 86; he’s a Holocaust survivor,” she began. “He’s a survivor of antisemitism in the ex-Soviet Union. He grew up tough, my dad. He came to Australia and brought us here because he didn’t want my mother and I to go through the same experience. And we didn’t for many years; we didn’t for many years — until October 7, 2023.”
James Glenday, co-host of News Breakfast, the ABC&#8217;s flagship morning TV program, tried to skate past the horrific massacre with this lame question: “How are you feeling right now, because there’s some really good things happening in this community, like a lot of people are coming together.”
“We’re so appreciative of that, yeah,” she acknowledged, then responded to the insipid question, repeating: “How are we feeling?”
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She offered a rhetorical question to the government after the murders: “Is this what you wanted? Is this enough now? Will you listen to us? Albanese, Wong, will you listen to us? Will you actually do something? Will you actually — Don’t have to stand up and say anything because we don’t believe you anyway.”
Then she directly challenged the interviewer, his network, and the media in general: “And ABC, I’ve gotta say, will you cut out the biased reporting? Mainstream media, will you cut it out? Will you actually let us have a voice? Because we feel that part of the reason that the Jewish people have experienced such a massive change in Australia toward us — I’m Aussie. I’m Aussie. I’m not a religious Jewish girl but since October 7, since all the hatred that’s been thrown at us, I’ve started to wear my Magen David (star of David) because I’m Jewish and if you have something to say, you can say it to me.”
“And ABC, please stop with the biased reporting,” she concluded.
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OUCH! 
He got a well-deserved smack!! 
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Last July, Australian MP Andrew Wallace slammed Albanese and Wong, <a href="https://andrewwallacemp.com.au/local-news/government-dragged-into-action-on-antisemitism-now-it-must-deliver/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">stating</a> after the release of the Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism: “I am staggered that it has taken this long for the Albanese Government to finally prioritise the safety and dignity of Australia’s Jewish community. Let’s be clear: the kind of antisemitic hate this plan seeks to address are violent attacks on synagogues, harassment of Jewish students, and the open spread of hate symbols and rhetoric on our streets, which has been amplified since October 7, 2023. That’s nearly three years that this Government has sat on its hands while Jewish Australians were threatened, abused and intimidated in their homes, their schools, and their places of worship.”
“The Albanese Government has been dragged kicking and screaming to this point,” he continued.

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British patriot Tommy Robinson, currently visiting Israel, visited Yad Vashem — the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem — for the first time on Monday, issuing a clarion call in support of the Jewish state and warning against the dangerous antisemitic rhetoric spreading across social media.
“Yesterday I visited the Holocaust museum in Israel,” he began. “It was the first time for me. To go into detail, to hear in detail, to understand, actually, the depravity of the crimes that were committed against the Jewish people. And not just depravity, but what built up to it.”
“And do you know what I took from that museum and what I took from that tour?” he continued. “I understood a lot more why words are so important to the members of the Jewish community. I’ll be honest, sometimes over the years when words had been said, even innocently, I’ve seen a massive backlash and a huge deal made out of these antisemitic tropes or allegations of antisemitic tropes. I never quite understood it. After visiting that museum and understanding that Jews didn’t just get murdered to start with, there was a big build-up of propaganda to do with antisemitic tropes. I learned a lot more and what I took from here gave me more of an understanding why there’s so much emotion from members of the Jewish community.”
“That’s what I took from here,” he stated. “It made me understand a lot more why there’s so much fear and for then, remember I haven’t gone through that history, that was my first time but I guarantee every single British Jew, every Jew around the world understands the full horrors of what their people and their race went through.”
“So, really you understand why this homeland, this country, why this place of safety is so important to them and also why they must fight and never stop fighting because of what history has done to them,” he concluded.
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Earlier this month, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tommy-robinson-invited-to-israel-a-courageous-leader-on-the-front-line-against-radical-islam">extended</a> a high-profile invitation to Tommy Robinson, calling him a “courageous leader” in the fight against radical Islam. Robinson is known for his unapologetic stance against jihadist extremism and his support for Israel.
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“In the wake of the horrific Manchester terrorist attack, Israel and the Jewish people stand firmly with our allies in the United Kingdom,” Chikli wrote on X. “Tommy is a courageous leader on the front line against radical Islam… He has proven himself a true friend of Israel and the Jewish people.”
Robinson, who accepted the invitation, emphasized the trip as a personal mission — not one motivated by compensation or fanfare, but by shared values and a mutual struggle. “The horrific Manchester attack has strengthened my conviction that the United Kingdom and Israel are fighting the same battle—against the scourge of Islamic jihad,” Robinson posted on X. “Their fight is our fight. I’m a proud British patriot and a Zionist.”
Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana declared, “Looking forward to hosting you at the Knesset mate! You’re doing a great service to your country, but more than that. As I have said repeatedly since Oct 7, far from being a local struggle — this is a global battle, between the forces of radicalism, extremism and fundamentalism, and those of freedom, liberty and democracy. Western civilization is under attack — and it’s our duty to stand firmly together — and win. See you in Jerusalem!”

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Americans may be shocked by Zohran Mamdani’s radical politics. But the communist upstart’s views wouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with his father.
Mahmood Mamdani, a professor at Columbia University, claimed on a panel at the Jaipur Literature Festival in New York in 2022 that Hitler was inspired by Abraham Lincoln, that the antisemitic Nuremberg laws were patterned after American laws, and that “the Nazi political project was shared by the allies.”
The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFATiIOE0bM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> centered around the release of his book, “Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making And Unmaking Of Permanent Minorities,” which “explores the nature of the nation-state, and the path to a reimagined, decolonized future.”
Mahmood Mamdani began by saying that “America is the genesis of what we call settler-colonialism” around the world. He goes on to say that Adolf Hitler got the idea of the Holocaust from President Abraham Lincoln:
“With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations, they herded American Indians into separate territories. For the Nazis, this was the inspiration — Hitler realized two things: one, that genocide is doable. It is possible to do genocide, that’s what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized is that you don’t have to have a common citizenship.”
Mahmood Mamdani also said that Nazi Germany’s racist and antisemitic <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/nuremberg-laws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nuremberg Laws</a> were “patterned after American laws.”
Moreover, “The Nazi political project was shared by the Allies, and that political project was to turn Germany into a ‘pure’ nation.”
“When the Allies defeated the Nazis and went into Eastern Europe, they began to create ‘pure’ nations. To ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe of Germans — move them back into Germany. One crime doesn’t wipe out another.”
Mahmood Mamdani’s book reveals a blatantly Marxist philosophy: “There are two kinds of identities, there is the identity of the oppressor and the identity of the oppressed,” he said.
He argues that “The nation state is what prevents us from living together.” This is because “The majority precedes democracy.” The tension between citizen and subject, or majority and minority, is an inherent consequence of colonialism:
“I argue that nationalism and colonialism are not two different things. We normally think of two kinds of nationalism, good nationalism and bad nationalism. Good nationalism brought us together and bad nationalism targeted other minorities. The important thing to realize is that these two things happen at the same time, they are two sides of the same coin,” he stated.
In order to eliminate oppression, Mamdani argues that we need to <a href="https://novaramedia.com/2025/07/03/if-you-like-zohran-mamdani-youre-going-to-love-his-dad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismantle</a> “colonialist architecture,” stating that “the tribes must take charge and the tribes must be sovereign.”
In an interview with the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-parents-mira-nair.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a>, the elder Mamdani stressed that Zohran is “his own person.”
“Now, of course what we do as his parents is part of the environment in which he grew up, and he couldn’t help but engage with it. That doesn’t mean anything is reflected back on us.”
Zohran’s mother, the director Amrit Nair, disagreed: “Of course the world we live in, and what we write and film and think about, is the world that Zohran has very much absorbed.”
Zohran Mamdani self-identifies as a democratic socialist and has espoused numerous radical socialist policies, including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/realestate/mamdani-rent-freeze-real-estate.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">freezing the rent</a> on a million apartments, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/nyregion/mamdani-policies-economy-housing-buses-childcare.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raising the minimum wage</a> to 30$ by 2030, making child care and the bus system free, replacing police with teams of <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a7ejjSZWWIAcxfcWnkYaqvnjihTb0LAOQkj8g10-npg/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.2gazcsgmxkub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mental health professionals</a>, and establishing city-run grocery stores.
PolitiFact recently rebuffed President Donald Trump’s claim that Zohran Mamdani was a communist. But, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/politifact-says-mamdani-is-not-a-communist-the-expert-they-cite-is-a-socialist?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=20&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=PolitiFact+Says+Mamdani+Is+Not+A+Communist.+The+Expert+They+Cite+Is+A+Socialist." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, the expert they cited was himself a longtime socialist.

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Karen Diamond, one of the victims of the antisemitic firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, died last Wednesday, according to a Monday press release. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the alleged perpetrator of the terror attack, now faces first-degree murder charges.
The attack, which happened on June 1, targeted a pro-Israel group calling for the release of Israeli hostages taken by the terror group Hamas during the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
It was initially reported that eight people were injured, including 82-year-old Diamond, by incendiary devices and what the FBI <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colorado-hits-egyptian-anti-israel-terror-suspect-with-charges-including-murder?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Colorado+Hits+Egyptian+Anti-Israel+Terror+Suspect+With+Charges+Including+Murder">called</a> a “makeshift flamethrower.” According to a new <a href="https://bouldercounty.gov/news/press-release-pearl-street-amended-and-added-charges/">press release</a>, 13 victims have reported physical injuries resulting from the attack.
Soliman is an Egyptian national residing in the United States illegally since his visa expired in 2023.
Diamond, who is mourned by her husband, sons, daughters-in-law, and grandsons, as well as the Boulder Jewish community, died last Wednesday, June 25, according to a <a href="https://boulderjewishnews.org/2025/baruch-dayan-haemet-karen-diamond-zl/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLPpNhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFkc2lLQVdDanNxaGtZWm5YAR7xFnBUUvEWq5tggUA9FnE066f48fI4Ew6-F8kIDBJFdQjEVwfEPM2mmA4PKw_aem_dKuP2aWRtkb40_hzEjnt3w">statement</a> released Monday by Rabbi Marc Soloway, a rabbi at Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder.
“There are no words to express the pain of this horrific loss of our beloved member and friend,” Soloway said.
Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty said, “This horrific attack has now claimed the life of an innocent person who was beloved by her family and friends. Our hearts are with the Diamond family during this incredibly difficult time.”
Diamond’s family has stated that they wish for privacy at this time as they grieve their loss.
Following Diamond’s passing, Soliman now faces two counts of first-degree murder, 52 counts of attempted first-degree murder, and 46 other related charges. Soliman now faces up to more than 100 years behind bars if found guilty.
Soliman is also being prosecuted federally for alleged hate crimes related to the Boulder attack. David Kraut, Soliman’s attorney, recently <a href="https://apnews.com/article/boulder-colorado-attack-not-guilty-plea-c6aeb3c80c129510f12432812a1c043b">entered</a> a not guilty plea on Soliman’s behalf for those 12 hate crime charges.

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Throwing yet another twist into the ongoing situation stemming from a &#8220;F*** the Jews&#8221; sign that was spotted at Barstool Sansom Street, a sports bar in Center City Philadelphia, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy announced that one of the patrons who initially took responsibility for the incident had backtracked.
Taking to X to deliver the follow up, Portnoy said that Mo Kahn — one of the two people he spoke to who had said on Sunday that they were behind the sign — had taken to social media to write a lengthy post disavowing any and all connection to it. Instead, he said that he had simply shared video of something that happened at the bar while he was there.
&#8220;Quick update. Mo Kahn is no longer taking any responsibility or involvement for the &#8216;F*** the Jews&#8217; sign at Barstool Samson. [He] is basically lawyering up and blaming it all on his friend now and is saying he was just a citizen journalist. It is a 180 from my convo with him yesterday. Needless to say his trip to Poland has been revoked,&#8221; Portnoy said in his caption.
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Portnoy shared a screenshot of Kahn&#8217;s post, showing where he told his followers that he had not been the one who &#8220;paid for or requested that sign,&#8221; and said that his only mistake had been making &#8220;the poor decision to record and upload it.&#8221; He then apologized for anyone whose feelings had been hurt by his post, adding, &#8220;I hope honest and open dialogue can come out of this incident so we can address the deeper realities of the world we live in.&#8221;
The Barstool Sports founder, who had previously spoken to Kahn and one other patron (whose name he did not reveal), said on Sunday that both had taken responsibility for the sign and had subsequently agreed to take a trip to Auschwitz and try to learn something from the experience.
Upon seeing Kahn&#8217;s post, Portnoy called to speak with him again, but this time, he said the conversation was very different. Kahn recorded the call and had his parents with him, and insisted that he&#8217;d had nothing to do with the sign — rather, he said that he&#8217;d felt pressured to take responsibility for it when they spoke the first time.
Portnoy said that Kahn, a 21-year-old Temple University student who has since been suspended, attempted to distance himself from the situation, saying that he would &#8220;never&#8221; do anything like that — but then Portnoy came across an old social media post of Kahn&#8217;s that included an anti-Semitic joke from six months earlier.
&#8220;I&#8217;m like, &#8216;How do you explain that one if you&#8217;re not ever doing anything like that?'&#8221; Portnoy continued. &#8220;He&#8217;s like, &#8216;Well, I really won&#8217;t be able to explain that, maybe my parents can explain that.&#8217; Your parents can explain the &#8216;how you find a Jew, you throw a quarter on the floor&#8217; joke? Not like — I mean, whatever, I&#8217;ve got thick skin. But this kid couldn&#8217;t even — he wouldn&#8217;t even admit he did it. He&#8217;s like, &#8216;That&#8217;s on a social media channel, like, I deleted, I don&#8217;t even have that anymore.'&#8221;
&#8220;Buddy, what are you doing?&#8221; Portnoy asked then, saying that he&#8217;d hoped to be able to turn a bad decision into a teachable moment, but that Kahn&#8217;s 180-degree turn had made him change his mind. &#8220;Maybe if you actually learn a life lesson, maybe if people watch you go to Poland and seem like you&#8217;re changed, this gets behind you.&#8221;
Portnoy concluded by saying that he&#8217;d rescinded his offer to send Kahn to Poland, arguing that if he wasn&#8217;t willing to take responsibility for his actions, he was not ready to learn the kind of lesson that would help him behave differently in the future.

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Barstool Patron Flips, Claims No Responsibility For ‘F*** The Jews’ Sign. Portnoy Isn’t Buying It.

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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy announced on Sunday that he would arrange a trip to Auschwitz for the people who ordered a &#8220;F*** the Jews&#8221; sign at a Barstool bar in Center City, Philadelphia, in the hopes that they would learn something from the experience.
Portnoy, who is Jewish, initially posted an &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dave-portnoy-coming-for-throats-after-f-the-jews-sign-spotted-at-philly-barstool-bar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emergency press conference</a>&#8221; and vowed that he was &#8220;coming for throats&#8221; over the incident that took place at Barstool Sansom Street, said that he did not want to &#8220;ruin a couple 20 year olds lives.&#8221;
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Emergency Press Conference &#8211; I’m sending the people who ordered the “Fuck Jews” signs at my bar to Auschwitz to learn about the Holocaust. Rather than ruin a couple 20 year olds 
lives maybe this can be used as a teaching moment <a href="https://t.co/sci4hBPBFA">pic.twitter.com/sci4hBPBFA</a>
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1919118206414868507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;All right, real quick update,&#8221; Portnoy began, recalling just how angry he&#8217;d been when he first learned about the sign. &#8220;You literally could have cooked an egg on my head. that&#8217;s how much steam and heat I had coming out of my ears.&#8221;
&#8220;And the more I thought about it, these are young f***ing morons who did this,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They&#8217;re drunk. It&#8217;s like, do you really want to ruin somebody&#8217;s life — and let me be honest, I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on in the world, well, I do in the Middle Eats obviously, but I&#8217;ve been doing Barstool for 20 years. I&#8217;ve had more hate, more antisemitism in the last year or year and a half than I&#8217;ve ever had doing it.&#8221;
Portnoy went on to note just how mainstream antisemitism had become, and argued that even though his initial reaction had been to burn them all, he felt that the best way to put a stop to that was ultimately through education.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sending these kids to Auschwitz. They&#8217;ve agreed to go,&#8221; Portnoy said, explaining that he&#8217;d spoken with the families of the people involved. &#8220;That&#8217;s of course the Holocaust concentration camp &#8230; We&#8217;re going to send these kids to Auschwitz and they&#8217;re going to do a tour or the concentration camps in Germany and hopefully learn something, and maybe like their lives aren&#8217;t ruined, they think twice &#8230; to me, that&#8217;s a fair outcome.&#8221;
Portnoy explained in his first &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dave-portnoy-coming-for-throats-after-f-the-jews-sign-spotted-at-philly-barstool-bar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emergency press conference</a>&#8221; that patrons at the bar had requested the sign to be displayed, prompting his initial angry response — and he said that the two waitresses responsible for going ahead with the request had been fired.

Dave Portnoy Finds Alternative Punishment For Patrons Who Ordered ‘F*** The Jews’ Sign At His Bar

Dave Portnoy Finds Alternative Punishment For Patrons Who Ordered 'F*** The Jews' Sign At His Bar

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Nike is getting blasted for its insensitivity in using a phrase associated with the Holocaust only three days after Yom HaShoah, when Jews around the world mark the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
Nike installed signs along the London Marathon route emblazoned, “Never again, until next year.”
“As a Jew living in London, I felt shocked, hurt, and angry to see the use of words in this context, even if no doubt in reference to the temporary pain of running 26 miles,&#8221; retired British judge Nigel Litman <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-851847" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Walla.
He continued:
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“Never Again” is a phrase related to the Holocaust and the murder of six million Jews. It is directed as a prayer to the world that it will not allow such a horror to repeat itself. And over the past 18 months, it has been used more than ever, as we mourn the barbaric slaughter of more than 1,000 Israelis and long for the return of hostages kidnapped to the tunnels of Gaza. The fact that the phrase is used as a marketing tool for the marathon is very indicative of the way it is treated. In fact, to chant ‘never again, until next year’ is exactly what Hamas promised: to repeat October 7 over and over again.
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“I am not arguing that Nike meant an antisemitic act, but it demonstrated how a serious and important comment is thrown aside as of little importance, despite the fact that for many Jews it is of enormous importance,” he concluded.
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Boycott Nike <a href="https://t.co/sntTQ9Fg9W">pic.twitter.com/sntTQ9Fg9W</a>
&mdash; Eye On Antisemitism (@AntisemitismEye) <a href="https://twitter.com/AntisemitismEye/status/1916873782381203492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The idea that <a href="https://twitter.com/Nike?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Nike</a> would make light of the holocaust using Hitler-red imagery in a post-October 7th world is stunning. 
Heads need to roll. 
WTF Nike? <a href="https://t.co/5kHx3sdB7a">https://t.co/5kHx3sdB7a</a>
&mdash; Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1916929342296166809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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I will &quot;never again&quot; purchase anything from Nike. <a href="https://t.co/lPx99oOsqV">pic.twitter.com/lPx99oOsqV</a>
&mdash; Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) <a href="https://twitter.com/EYakoby/status/1916862588282904667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Nike&#39;s ad at the London Marathon — to Never Again buy Nike. <a href="https://t.co/Egs4M06vfL">pic.twitter.com/Egs4M06vfL</a>
&mdash; dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) <a href="https://twitter.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1916841999136604413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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One month after the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre of over 1,200 Israelis, a &#8220;digital media marketing specialist&#8221; at Nike accused Israel of “massacring civilians.”
“Much of what is Israel claims about Palestinian resistance is pure projection. The killing of children, massacring civilians, the r*pe, torture, hostage-taking, and imprisonment that Israel accuses of Palestinians of occurs on a much greater scale by the Israelis,” James Rehwald wrote, The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-the-nike-marketing-specialist-who-says-israel-not-hamas-is-massacring-civilians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, adding, “Nike CEO John Donahoe nearly a week after the attack sent an internal email to employees decrying the &#8220;horrific attacks in Israel&#8221; but did not mention Hamas, prompting pushback from some Jewish employees.”

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Nike Blasted After Posting ‘Never Again’ Signs During Marathon 3 Days After Holocaust Memorial Day

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CBS News host Margaret Brennan faced intense backlash on Sunday after she claimed during an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio that &#8220;free speech was weaponized&#8221; to cause the Holocaust.
Brennan made the comment during an interview on &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; while talking about Vice President JD Vance&#8217;s speech to European leaders last week in which he called them out for abandoning values like free speech.
“He was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,” Brennan said while talking about Vance&#8217;s speech in Munich, Germany.
Brennan was met with instant pushback online over her claim, including from top elected leaders.
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) posted on X: &#8220;Free speech caused the Holocaust is an insanely stupid take.&#8221;
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&#8220;I&#8217;m glad Margaret Brennan blamed free speech for the rise of the Nazis,&#8221; said columnist John Podhoretz. &#8220;It&#8217;s always a virtue when a person in a position of authority and influence who was elevated beyond her station reveals her ineptitude and folly&#8211;so that the world can see her clearly henceforth.&#8221;
&#8220;This bonkers,&#8221; said Red State writer Bonchie. &#8220;Like pull her off the air bonkers.&#8221;
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This is the first time I’ve heard the theory that the Holocaust wasn’t conducted with gas chambers but with free speech zones. <a href="https://t.co/mpWm6UH2F4">pic.twitter.com/mpWm6UH2F4</a>
— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelbd/status/1891206009508536367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
Radio host Erick Erickson posted on X: &#8220;Can we just talk about how a prominent American news anchor actually believes Nazi Germany had free speech and that supposed free speech is to blame for the Holocaust? That&#8217;s both deeply arrogant and deeply ignorant.&#8221;
Columnist Karol Markowicz posted on X: &#8220;It’s wild that this is how far the left has fallen. Free speech caused the Holocaust, you guys.&#8221;
&#8220;This is absolute lunacy from Margaret Brennan,&#8221; wrote journalist Andrew Kerr.
&#8220;I legitimately don&#8217;t know how ignorant you have to be to claim the holocaust happened as a result of free speech,&#8221; said Meghan McCain. &#8220;This woman doesn&#8217;t deserve to host this show and Republicans should stop rewarding this s*** by going on it.&#8221;

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Margaret Brennan Slammed Over Claim That ‘Free Speech Was Weaponized’ To Cause The Holocaust

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CBS News host Margaret Brennan claimed during an interview over the weekend that the Holocaust was caused because free speech was &#8220;weaponized.&#8221;
The left-wing host made the highly controversial remarks during an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio while talking about Vice President JD Vance&#8217;s speech in Europe last week where he criticized the continent&#8217;s leaders for abandoning certain values, like free speech.
&#8220;What did all of this accomplish, other than irritating our allies?&#8221; Brennan asked.
&#8220;Why would our allies or anybody be irritated by free speech and by someone giving their opinion?&#8221; Rubio responded. &#8220;We are, after all, democracies. The Munich – Munich Security Conference is largely a conference of democracies, in which one of the things that we cherish and value is the ability to speak freely and provide your opinions.&#8221;
Rubio said that a lot of things that Vance said &#8220;needed to be said&#8221; and that it was perplexing that anyone &#8220;would be upset about it.&#8221;
&#8220;People are allowed – you know, you don&#8217;t have to agree on someone&#8217;s speech,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I happen to agree with a lot of what he said, but you don&#8217;t have to agree with someone&#8217;s speech to at least appreciate the fact they have a right to say it and that you should listen to it and see whether those criticisms are valid.&#8221;
Brennan responded: &#8220;Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.&#8221;
&#8220;And he met with the head of a political party that has far-right views and some historic ties to extreme groups,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right.&#8221;
Rubio fired back: &#8220;Well, I have to disagree with you. I have to disagree with you.&#8221;
&#8220;Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they – they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews.&#8221;
&#8220;There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only party that governed that country. So that&#8217;s not an accurate reflection of history.&#8221;
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This is the first time I’ve heard the theory that the Holocaust wasn’t conducted with gas chambers but with free speech zones. <a href="https://t.co/mpWm6UH2F4">pic.twitter.com/mpWm6UH2F4</a>
— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelbd/status/1891206009508536367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2025</a></blockquote>

Margaret Brennan Claims ‘Free Speech Was Weaponized’ To Cause The Holocaust

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