Tova Friedman was just six years old when she walked out of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/visiting-auschwitz-and-why-it-matters-today" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Auschwitz</a>, and after dedicating herself to teaching others about the horrors of the Holocaust, she issued a stark warning to those who seem unwilling to crack down on the anti-Semitism rearing its head on college campuses in the United States.
Friedman made an appearance Tuesday on Fox News, where she predicted inevitable &#8220;tragedy&#8221; if something was not done to stop the growing &#8220;cancer&#8221; of anti-Semitism.
Responding to videos of protesters — on Ivy League college campuses like Columbia and Yale — telling Jewish students to go back to Poland and actively cheering on the brutal actions of Hamas terrorists, Friedman called the imagery &#8220;shocking.&#8221;
&#8220;It is shocking! It is utterly shocking! You know, when I walked out of Auschwitz with my mother, walking through these gates, and I thought — I was six and a half, and I was a very adult six and a half, not like a child, you know? And I said I will never, never have anybody call me a dirty Jew or anything else again. I am free now,&#8221; she said.
It was another five years before Friedman would see the &#8220;promised land&#8221; of the United States — and now, she worries that &#8220;tragedy&#8221; will befall her new country if nothing is done to stop the hatred.
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&#8220;I just want to say that if this isn’t contained and if they don’t think about it, what is going to be the end product? What is the end product of any hatred and prejudice? It is death to somebody. Could be death to themselves. Death to their opponents. Because we didn’t stop Hitler,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;That type of behavior and anger and hatred can only end up in tragedy. Tragedy for everybody. Not only tragedy for the Jews, God forbid, tragedy for themselves, which is — it’s going to be a terrible clash. We have to find a way to stop it. I think of it as a virus or like a cancer,&#8221; Friedman concluded. &#8220;If you don’t stop it early, it kills the body.&#8221;

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‘Utterly Shocking’: Auschwitz Survivor Says Anti-Semitic Campus Protests Can Only End In ‘Tragedy’

'Utterly Shocking': Auschwitz Survivor Says Anti-Semitic Campus Protests Can Only End In 'Tragedy'

Anti-Semitism

Auschwitz

Education

Hamas

Holocaust

Israel

Protests

U.S.

On Tuesday, as the Berkeley, California City Council held a meeting at which a Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation was being considered, anti-Israel demonstrators bullied an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who was sent to Dachau Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany when she was four years old.
Susanne DeWitt spoke before the council, saying, &#8220;Over six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust and many more were left with scarred lives. I urge the Berkeley City Council to pass the Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation because we are currently witnessing a horrendous surge in anti-Semitism. Jews are now under existential threat; the invasion by Hamas, which broke a ceasefire –&#8221;
She was interrupted by demonstrators yelling, “Time! Time!”
The moderator interceded as Dewitt stepped away from the microphone, “Okay, Ma’am. Ms. Dewitt, ladies and gentlemen, if you can, please let me facilitate the meeting.”
Permitted to continue, DeWitt stated, “ — led to the murder of 1,200 Israelis, and the brutal torture and rape of women.&#8221;
Despite the fact that Hamas’ rape and torture of women during the October 7 massacre has been well-documented, demonstrators screamed, “Lies! Lies! Lies!”
At the meeting, the demonstrators referred to “Zionist pigs,” chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” called the council “cowards” and “traitors,” “spies for Israel,” “Racist Zionists who are upholding violence, apartheid, occupation,” told someone, “Get the f*** out of here, you Zionist pig,” and were warned by the moderator, “Do not circle other speakers. Back away.”
One demonstrator, face covered by a mask, declared, “This is a Zionist stronghold. The people of Berkeley love Palestine.” Another demonstrator snapped, “Being around Zionists really like gets your blood going.”
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DeWitt authored a book titled, “I Was Born in an Old Age Home: A Memoir.” She tells the story of growing up in Munich, Germany, being arrested at the age of four during Kristallnacht, and later being incarcerated in Dachau. Having survived, she then lived in various countries before she settled in the U.S.
“The number of prisoners incarcerated in Dachau between 1933 and 1945 exceeded 200,000. Scholars believe that at least 40,000 prisoners died there,” the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/dachau" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>.

Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial

89-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor, Imprisoned In Dachau At Age 4, Heckled By Anti-Israel Protesters

Berkeley, California

California

In the wake of the inflammatory remarks by film director Jonathan Glazer at the Oscars, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jonathan-glazer-oscars-speech-condemned-holocaust-survivors-foundation-1235850275/">David Schaecter</a>, a 94-year-old survivor of the Holocaust, issued a public letter to him in which he denounced his statements.
Glazer won an Oscar for directing “Zone of Interest,” a film about the family of Rudolf Hess, the head of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The entire movie is about the Hess family living at Auschwitz in a house while the viewer never sees the victims of the Holocaust.
Glazer said in his Oscars <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/oscars-2024-jonathan-glazer-speech-full-transcript.html">speech</a>:
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Thank you to the Academy for this honor and to our partners A24, Film4, Access, and Polish Film Institute; to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for their trust and guidance; to my producers, actors, and collaborators. All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present — not to say, “Look what they did then,” rather, “Look what we do now.” Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present. Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist? Aleksandra Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk, the girl who glows in the film, as she did in life, chose to. I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance. Thank you. 
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The letter from the Holocaust survivor stated:
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I am 94 years old and the only member of 105 souls in my family to survive the Holocaust. I miraculously survived nearly three years in the hell of Auschwitz and one year in the hell of Buchenwald. I watched in anguish Sunday night when I heard you use the platform of the Oscars ceremony to equate Hamas&#8217;s maniacal brutality against innocent Israelis with Israel&#8217;s difficult but necessary self-defense in the face of Hamas&#8217;s ongoing barbarity.
Your comments were factually inaccurate and morally indefensible.
The &#8220;occupation&#8221; of which you speak has nothing to do with the Holocaust. The Jewish people&#8217;s existence and right to live in the land of Israel predates the Holocaust by hundreds of years. Today&#8217;s political and geographic landscape is the direct result of wars started by past Arab leaders who refused to accept Jewish people as their neighbors in our historic homeland. Now that several Arab countries are making peace with Israel because security and prosperity are better for all people, Iran and its terrorist proxies started another war, abetted by too many who, through naiveté or malice, blame &#8220;the occupation.&#8221;
Worse is that you chose to use the Holocaust to validate your personal opinion. You made a Holocaust movie and won an Oscar. And you are Jewish. Good for you. But it is disgraceful for you to presume to speak for the six million Jews, including one and a half million children, who were murdered solely because of their Jewish identity.
And it is disgraceful for you to presume to speak for those of us who personally saw the world stand silent as our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins were murdered. We actually had nowhere to go &#8211; no possible place of refuge. No country would accept us even though world leaders knew full well that thousands of Jews were being murdered every day. There was no Jewish nation to which we could flee.
You should be ashamed of yourself for using Auschwitz to criticize Israel.
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96th Annual Academy Awards – Press Room

94-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Issues Fiery Open Letter Denouncing Jonathan Glazer

Jonathan Glazer

Oscars

Survivor

The director of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/holocaust" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Holocaust</a> film that won an award on Sunday night at the Oscars used his moment on stage to slam Israel with false claims about what is going on inside of Gaza.
Jonathan Glazer — who directed &#8220;The Zone of Interest,&#8221; a film about the life of a Nazi commandant who lived next to the Auschwitz concentration camp that won the Academy Award for Best International Film — first thanked all the institutions that helped him create the film.
&#8220;All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, rather look what we do now,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present.&#8221;
&#8220;Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel, or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?&#8221;
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Writer/director Jonathan Glazer stood at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oscars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Oscars</a>  and said, “We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict”
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Hussain Abdul-Hussain, research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), slammed Glazer&#8217;s remarks.
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&#8220;In reality, it was the end of Israel’s occupation of Gaza in 2005, and the dismantling of settlements, that led to several rounds of conflict culminating in the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis on October 7,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Why not stick to acting or whatever he does in Hollywood?&#8221;
Max Abrahms, an international security professor who specializes in terrorism, posted on X: “Someone should do a psychological study on Jews who support Hamas.”
“If your received lesson from the Holocaust is to support Hamas then you haven’t drawn the right lesson,” he continued. “And the award for drawing the completely wrong lesson about the Holocaust goes to… Jonathan Glazer.”
Political and economic analyst Jake Novak posted: &#8220;To the horrible human being who just won the Oscar for his movie about the Holocaust: Jews are neither aggressors in Israel (your delusion) nor victims anymore (your fantasy). You enable the deaths of your fellow Jews by promoting that blood libel.&#8221;
Science professor Gad Saad wrote &#8220;From the annals of: &#8216;If I engage in sufficient self-loathing, perhaps they’ll spare me.&#8217; A clown who knows nothing about the relevant realities.&#8221;
&#8220;Hamas commits mass murder against innocent Israeli civilians as part of a master plan to wipe Israel and Jews off the face of the earth,&#8221; former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker posted on X. &#8220;Apparently this fool knows nothing of substance about the Holocaust. The ignorance of the elite is breathtakingly dangerous.&#8221;
Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) wrote: &#8220;The blatant anti-semitism at the #Oscars tonight was beyond disturbing. From the pro-Hamas red pins to the attacks on #Israel, these Hollywood useful idiots are carrying water for murderous terrorists who ban their films.&#8221;
New York Post reporter Jon Levine posted: &#8220;Where is Will Smith when you need him?&#8221;
Newsweek Opinion Editor Batya Ungar-Sargon wrote: &#8220;I simply cannot fathom the moral rot in someone&#8217;s soul that leads them to win an award for a movie about the Holocaust and with the platform given to them, to accept that award by saying, &#8216;We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness.'&#8221;
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Director Who Won Oscar For Holocaust Film Smears Israel Over War Against Hamas

Hollywood

Movies

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over the weekend for claiming that Israel is committing a Holocaust as it hunts down Hamas terrorists inside Gaza.
Lula&#8217;s remarks come as Israel continues to conduct military operations inside Gaza to recover hostages who were kidnapped during the unprecedented October 7 terrorist attack and to eliminate Hamas terrorists and infrastructure. During the early morning surprise attack, Hamas murdered 1,200 people in Israel, injured 5,300+, and kidnapped hundreds.
&#8220;What’s happening in the Gaza Strip isn’t a war, it’s a genocide,&#8221; Brazil&#8217;s far-Left president told reporters at an African Union summit in Ethiopia. &#8220;It’s not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It’s a war between a highly prepared army and women and children.&#8221;
&#8220;What’s happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn’t happened at any other moment in history,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Actually, it has happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.&#8221;
Israel has taken unprecedented measures to minimize the loss of civilian life during the war, including dropping hundreds of thousands of leaflets urging Gazans to leave specific areas, calling Gazans and urging them to evacuate, opening up safe corridors so they can travel without being fired upon by Hamas, and calling off airstrikes after civilians were located near a designated target.
Netanyahu responded to Lula&#8217;s remarks with a statement posted to social media, saying that Israel would take diplomatic action over the incident.
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&#8220;The words of the president of Brazil are shameful and serious. This is about trivializing the Holocaust and trying to harm the Jewish people and Israel&#8217;s right to defend itself,&#8221; Netanyahu said. &#8220;Comparing Israel to the Nazi Holocaust and Hitler is crossing a red line. Israel fights for its defense and securing its future until complete victory and it does so while upholding international law.&#8221;
&#8220;I decided with Foreign Minister Israel Katz to summon the Brazilian ambassador to Israel for a stern reprimand conversation immediately,&#8221; he added.

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Netanyahu Blasts Brazil’s Lula For Claiming Israel Is Committing Holocaust

Benjamin Netanyahu

Brazil

Gaza

Global Politics

World

I flew to Kraków, Poland, on Saturday night and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1889-at-auschwitz-with-elon-musk-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visited Auschwitz</a> with Elon Musk on Monday.
Auschwitz is an insane experience. For those who have seen images of the Holocaust, seeing the actual structures where mass death was brought upon the Jewish people, as well as Roma homosexuals and Russian soldiers, is an astonishing demonstration of the darkness that is present and possible inside the human soul.
For those who have not visited, it is worth the visit because I think that we tend to live very easy lives — thank God, in the West and in the modern era — and we tend to look around us and see people who are generally good, people who generally believe in non-evil things.
Then you go to a place like Auschwitz and realize it actually is not all that unthinkable for the unthinkable to happen.
I had the privilege when I was younger of helping to write the memoirs of a Holocaust survivor who&#8217;d actually gone through Auschwitz-Birkenau. And the stories obviously are horrifying. 
I think there are many important points to be gained from walking through Auschwitz-Birkenau. The first is to realize that people can be made to believe nearly anything. And this holds true on the side of both the evil people and the people who are victimized by those who are evil.
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One of the things you see when you walk through Auschwitz itself, the actual complex, is a room that&#8217;s just filled with suitcases. Every person who brought a suitcase to Auschwitz thought they were going to end up unpacking that suitcase step by step. European Jewry thought that whatever was next couldn&#8217;t be what it turned out to be, all the way until the final step into the gas chambers. So when we criticize people for not having fought back, at what point were they supposed to believe the unthinkable was now thinkable? Because the unthinkable is unthinkable until precisely the moment that it becomes real. 
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There is very little limit to the evil that can be created in the human heart. That evil can only be masked by ideology. Ideology absolutely matters. It absolutely matters.
To truly understand what happened in Auschwitz-Birkenau, you have to understand German and European history. You have to understand European anti-Semitism. The first and most fundamental thing to understand about anti-Semitism in the modern era is that it is a conspiracy theory about power. When you read the writings of Hitler and those who preceded Hitler by 50, 60, and 70 years — anti-Semitic writings — what you see is that there&#8217;s a conspiracy theory about Jews.
These conspiracy theories assert the powerful in every industry are Jewish, that they are part of an evil conspiracy, and that the only reason they gain power is through some sort of perverse machination, and they, therefore, must be extricated; they must be destroyed. The theory of power suggested they were the exploiters, they had rigged the system on their own behalf, and, therefore, they had to be destroyed.
And that ideology, a self-justifying ideology whereby the people you&#8217;re about to kill are actually the true victimizers, breeds the victimization of Jews and is very much alive and well and with us today.
When we see places like Auschwitz-Birkenau, we think the extent of the horror is so unthinkable and so unimaginable that we tend to cut it off from the rest of human relations. We tend to think, “This is an outlier. It&#8217;s just this crazy statistical outlier.” When, in reality, it is just the culmination of a continuum theory that has been present on Earth for literally thousands of years, going all the way back to the Book of Exodus — the same remarks Pharaoh was making about the Jews, that he felt they were exhibiting rising numbers in power and a threat to the Egyptians. That same stuff was repeated by Hitler, and it&#8217;s being repeated by some people today.
One of the things Elon and I discussed at fair length was diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI is the basic thesis that the world is driven by power dynamics, that virtually every system is a power dynamic system and that free speech is actually just a stand-in for power. That free markets are standing for power, that those who are successful in these systems are actually perpetuaters of the system for their own exploitative power.
That is a dangerous theory. The theory that power lies behind all systems exists on all sides of the political aisle.
You see people in the West marching on behalf of members of Hamas. The only rationale for LGBT people suggesting they have solidarity with people who would literally murder them the first chance they got in the Gaza Strip is this DEI theory that there&#8217;s a system of power that must be torn to the ground. That merges with anti-Semitism, because, after all, if you&#8217;re making the case that there is a group of people with disproportionate power along racial, ethnic, and religious lines, and they are, therefore, the oppressors and exploiters, that merges well with conspiratorial theories about anti-Semitism.
This is why you see all these streams crossing with the DEI Left. This is why you see Black Lives Matter protesting for “Palestine.” This is why you see people who are socialists protesting on behalf of some of the least socially responsible people on planet Earth.
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In the modern world, we have been seeing an attempt to read strength as evil and weakness as virtue. That is a despicable morality because it&#8217;s not moral at all.
In fact, it&#8217;s directly anti-Biblical. The Bible specifically says that if you&#8217;re a judge, you are not allowed to favor either the poor or the rich. Why does the Bible suggest you&#8217;re not allowed to favor the poor when the suggestion by the Left is that you&#8217;ll never favor the poor? The answer is because virtue and wealth are not necessarily connected.
I know very virtuous people who are poor. I know very virtuous people who are rich, and I know many people who are not virtuous, who are both poor and rich. And that makes a difference when it comes to world politics. If you believe the weak are inherently virtuous, that is believing the system itself has made them weak, the system must be torn down, and the people who purport to uphold the system must be destroyed.
That&#8217;s how all of this connects to visiting places like Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Ceremony Held At Auschwitz Ahead Of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Visiting Auschwitz, And Why It Matters Today

Ben Shapiro

Jews

Opinion

Poland

Readers Pass

World War II

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad falsely claimed during a speech this week that there was no evidence that six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
Al-Assad, who is responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of his own citizens and whose regime is strongly <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-key-transit-hub-for-captagon-trafficking-new-report-finds/#:~:text=The%20cheap%20amphetamine%2Dlike%20Captagon,for%20Bashar%20Assad's%20war%20machine.&amp;text=Voiced%20by%20artificial%20intelligence.,Bashar%20Assad's%20regime%20in%20Syria.">linked</a> to drug trafficking, falsely claimed that the U.S. was responsible for the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany between World War I and World War II.
&#8220;There is no evidence that six million Jews were killed [in the Holocaust],&#8221; he falsely claimed. &#8220;True, there were concentration camps, but what shows you that this is a politicized issue, and is not a humanitarian issue, and is not real, how come we talk about these six million, and not the 26 million Soviets who were killed in that war? Are those six millions more precious? The same acts were everywhere.&#8221;
He falsely claimed that there was &#8220;no method of torture or killing specific to the Jews,&#8221; when, in fact, Jews were forced into death camps where they were systematically murdered on an industrial scale.
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&#8220;However, this issue was politicized, in order to falsify the truth, and later to prepare for the transfer of the Jews from Europe to other areas, or [rather] to Palestine,&#8221; he falsely claimed.
He also falsely claimed that the Jews who returned to Israel after it was established as a nation in 1948 had no connection to the ancient people of Israel.
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Lebanese President Michel Sleiman, Qatari Emir Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, French President Nicolas Sarkozy And Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad Attend A Press Conference At The Elysee Palace On The Eve Of Paris, In Paris, France On July 12, 2008.

Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad: ‘No Evidence That Six Million Jews Were Killed’ In Holocaust

Bashar Assad

Syria

A new poll of adult Americans found that 20% of 18-29 year-olds believe that the Holocaust in World War II— in which six million Jews were murdered, including one million children —  is a myth while 77% of adults older than 29 disagreed with calling the Holocaust a “myth.”
A YouGov/The Economist survey of 1,500 American adults found that among the 18-29 age group, only 46% said it was anti-Semitic to deny the Holocaust occurred as opposed to 67% among the rest of the population surveyed.
The survey asked if respondents agreed with statements such as “Jews have too much power in America,” “People should boycott Israeli goods and products,” “Israel exploits Holocaust victimhood for its own purposes,” “Israel has too much control over global affairs,” and “the interests of Israelis are at odds with the interests of the rest of the world.” The 18-29 age “bracket answered in the affirmative more so than any other group,” The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/article-777480">reported</a>.
The 18-29 age group also displayed a higher percentage of those who believe Israel is an apartheid state and is deliberately trying to erase the Palestinian population. “This 18-29 year-old age group also had the largest proportion of respondents who disagreed with the statement that Israel has a right to exist,” the Post noted.
The anti-Israel sentiment that has gained strength in American academia for decades likely played a part in young people’s denial of the Holocaust and anti-Israel sentiment. As far back as 2002, anti-Semitism on college campuses was growing. Then-Harvard President Lawrence Summers spoke to students at a morning prayer service at the Memorial Church, saying, “ &#8230; there is disturbing evidence of an upturn in anti-Semitism globally &#8230; where anti-Semitism and views that are profoundly anti-Israeli have traditionally been the primary preserve of poorly educated right-wing populists, profoundly anti-Israel views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities.”
In January 2022, Ellen Germain, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues for the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, spoke of Holocaust denial at the Hague. She <a href="https://www.state.gov/why-confronting-holocaust-distortion-and-denial-matters/">stated</a>:
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It seems incredible that more than 75 years after the end of World War II and the Holocaust, people still deny and distort the facts of the genocide, one of the best-documented mass atrocities in human history.  We have mountains of evidence, extensive survivor testimonies, and eyewitness accounts from those who liberated the concentration and death camps.  Yet Holocaust denial and distortion persist.  Indeed, one could say they have gone viral.  Modern day Holocaust distortion and denial have been exacerbated, and amplified, through the use of digital tools and the ease with which misinformation and disinformation can be spread on social media platforms.  This is shocking.  The Holocaust is fact; the evidence is overwhelming.
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She continued:
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We must do all we can, every day, to counter Holocaust denial and distortion, and other modern manifestations of antisemitism and other forms of hate.  We must stand up for the truth and promote the accurate and truthful history of the horrors of the Holocaust.  We must highlight the painful lessons of the Holocaust, including the importance of respecting the human rights and dignity of people who are different from us.  That is the only way we will ever fulfill our solemn pledge of “never again.”
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20% Of Young Americans Think The Holocaust Never Happened: Survey

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-opens-up-about-telling-maria-shriver-hed-fathered-a-son-with-housekeeper-in-new-documentary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> received the Award of Courage from the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles and called on people to &#8220;confront&#8221; anti-Semitism following the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,400 people.
During the 15th annual gala on Monday night, the 76-year-old actor and former California governor was awarded the honor for his years of work combating anti-Semitism and bigotry amid a rise in anti-Jewish attacks across the world, according to the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/arnold-schwarzenegger-holocaust-museum-la-confront-antisemitism-1235638480/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Reporter</a>.
Schwarzenegger said as the son of a Nazi soldier, Gustav Schwarzenegger, he wanted to fight &#8220;for inclusion against hatred and speak out about hatred, and how wrong it is to not look at everyone&#8217;s life equally. And to attack each other because of someone&#8217;s religion and religious background or their color or their sex, whatever it is.&#8221;
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Honored By Holocaust Museum LA: &#8220;We Have to Speak Up and Confront&#8221; Antisemitism <a href="https://t.co/F8zbjhEvxS">https://t.co/F8zbjhEvxS</a>
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&#8220;I felt it was very important, especially since I come from a country that is known to be a big part of the Second World War and had the most vicious Nazis during the Second World War and beforehand,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I thought it is important to go out and to let people know that the next generation doesn&#8217;t have to be the same, that the next generation can change.&#8221;
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The &#8220;Terminator&#8221; star said he experienced anti-Semitism in his own home from his father, who slammed the Jewish publisher of a bodybuilding magazine Arnold was interested in. He said years later when he made it to America, it was that same publisher who set him up with housing and money, something he shared at the time with his father.
&#8220;From that moment on, I said to myself, &#8216;I have to go and fight that, I have to go and speak out about hatred, I have to go and get involved in this issue,'&#8221; Schwarzenegger said. &#8220;And the more I became a celebrity, the more I became a movie star and a bodybuilding star and all that, the more I felt like, &#8216;Oh, I have another power.'&#8221;
Schwarzenegger said, &#8220;[T]here&#8217;s all this chatter out there and all this stuff and all this negativity and hatred that we have to speak up and confront them. The more we speak out about that issue [anti-Semitism], the better it is.&#8221;
&#8220;So every day you have to talk about that, you have talked about it over and over again because we cannot let them get away with those lies and with this hatred,&#8221; he added. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to talk to them, and talk them down and let them know that the only way to go is through love… hatred you never ever win; love in the end always wins.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schwarzenegger-on-his-father-being-a-nazi-was-sucked-into-a-hate-system-through-lies-and-deceits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Schwarzenegger On His Father Being A Nazi: Was &#8216;Sucked Into A Hate System Through Lies And Deceits&#8217;</a>

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Honored By Holocaust Museum, Calls On People To ‘Confront’ Anti-Semitism

Arnold Schwarzenegger Honored By Holocaust Museum, Calls On People To 'Confront' Anti-Semitism

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Far-left pro-Palestinian activists marched on the streets of New York City during an anti-Semitic demonstration on Monday night while chanting Nazi sentiments.
The shocking scene comes after Palestinian terrorists murdered more than 1,400 Israelis in an unprecedented terror attack two weeks ago.
&#8220;Just came home to hundreds of people outside of my apartment here in NYC calling for Intifada, which given recent events, may well be considered a call for the mass murder of Jews,&#8221; New Yorker Eli Klein wrote on X. &#8220;Never did I expect to see this kind of open antisemitism so close to home.&#8221;
An Intifada is a violent Palestinian riot or attack against Jews or Israelis.
In the video posted by Klein, the far-left extremists were chanting &#8220;Intifada&#8221; and &#8220;long live the Intifada.&#8221;
Moments later, they chanted: &#8220;There is only one solution.&#8221;
The reference to there being &#8220;only one solution&#8221; is reminiscent of the Nazi Germany&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/final-solution-overview">final solution</a>&#8221; during the Holocaust, which meant killing all Jews. Anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian activists often chant &#8220;from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free&#8221;, which is a call for destroying the state of Israel.
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Just came home to hundreds of people outside of my apartment here in NYC calling for Intifada, which given recent events, may well be considered a call for the mass murder of Jews. Never did I expect to see this kind of open antisemitism so close to home. <a href="https://t.co/DLxGpzMxHQ">pic.twitter.com/DLxGpzMxHQ</a>
&mdash; Eli Klein (@TheEliKlein) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheEliKlein/status/1716602651314364567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A subsequent video posted by Klein showed the scale of the protest as there were at least several hundred participants, potentially more.
The protesters called for a complete defunding of Israel as they carried various anti-Semitic signs.
&#8220;This anti-Israel protest is mostly comprised of white far-left extremists in masks,&#8221; Klein added.
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This anti-Israel protest is mostly comprised of white far-left extremists in masks… <a href="https://t.co/XxDlmjkHGn">pic.twitter.com/XxDlmjkHGn</a>
&mdash; Eli Klein (@TheEliKlein) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheEliKlein/status/1716604194390524194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel</a> leveled a Palestinian pizzeria after the restaurant apparently thought it was funny to use a photo of an Israeli woman who was kidnapped by Hamas in an advertisement for Pizza.
The pizzeria, called Eiffel Bakery and Supermarket, was located in a town in Judea and Samaria.
The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-razes-palestinian-pizzeria-in-west-bank-after-ad-mocks-elderly-hostage-in-gaza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the photo was of an &#8220;elderly Israeli Holocaust survivor who was taken hostage by terrorists in Gaza.&#8221;
Local reporter Amit Segal posted a photo of the ad that the shop used, adding: &#8220;Pro-Nazis: a pizzeria in Hvar advertises its goods this way.&#8221;
Segal tying a pizzeria using a photo of a Holocaust survivor as an advertisement to Nazism is a reference to Jews being murdered <a href="https://time.com/5371687/nazi-camp-crematorium-builders/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in ovens</a> inside concentration camps during WWII.
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פרו נאצים: פיצרייה בחווארה מפרסמת כך את הסחורה שלה. <a href="https://t.co/NYBoStHYaj">pic.twitter.com/NYBoStHYaj</a>
&mdash; עמית סגל Amit Segal (@amit_segal) <a href="https://twitter.com/amit_segal/status/1712526001840771281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) showed up to the pizzeria with a front loader late this week and completely demolished the establishment.
Channel 12 news in Israel said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally involved in the decision to destroy the establishment.
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The Messenger <a href="https://themessenger.com/news/israel-destroys-palestinian-pizzeria-uses-photo-elderly-hamas-hostage-in-ad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the owner of the pizzeria was previously arrested for allegedly assaulting an Israeli several years ago, but the case had to be dropped because they did not gather enough evidence.
The pizzeria posted a message online claiming that they had no idea who the woman in the photo was.
&#8220;We are very sorry for the picture that was uploaded. Of course, the image did not occur to us,&#8221; the Facebook post read. &#8220;Someone tried to hurt us. We are against harming people and women and just want to make a living with dignity and live in peace with everyone. We are very sorry to the members of the affected family and the other people who were affected.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minnesota-woman-who-spent-life-advocating-for-palestinian-rights-is-murdered-by-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnesota Woman Who Spent Life Advocating For Palestinian Rights Is Murdered By Hamas</a>

Israel Declares War Following Large-Scale Hamas Attacks

Palestinian Pizzeria Used Photo Of Kidnapped Holocaust Survivor In Ad. Israel Leveled The Building.

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School officials in the United Kingdom have reportedly begun to advise Jewish students to hide their identities while walking to and from school — apparently out of fear that something could happen to them if they didn&#8217;t.
&#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-k-rowling-nails-it-real-fascists-have-spotted-a-glorious-opportunity-in-trans-activism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a> shared a photo of a newspaper story out of London that mentioned children leaving certain items of clothing behind — or covering them up — in an effort to limit the visual cues identifying them as Jews.
&#8220;We said &#8216;never again.&#8217; The UK was a safe haven,&#8221; Rowling posted via X. &#8220;Now, after the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust, British Jewish children are being advised to hide their identities as they walk to school, for their own safety. There should be mass outrage that this is necessary.&#8221;
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We said ‘never again.’ The UK was a safe haven. Now, after the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust, British Jewish children are being advised to hide their identities as they walk to school, for their own safety. There should be mass outrage that this is necessary. <a href="https://t.co/T8J4B6MSGe">pic.twitter.com/T8J4B6MSGe</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1712379734900805837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The pictured article appears to be a concerned letter-to-the-editor from a local resident whose daughter was warned not to wear her school&#8217;s logo when she went out alone — and had already witnessed some anti-Israel actions in her own neighborhood.
&#8220;Sir, on advice from her school our teenage daughter has gone off without her blazer this morning. Her male classmates have been advised to cover their skullcaps with baseball caps,&#8221; the letter read.
&#8220;On her pre-school dawn run yesterday she ran past the broken glass of a kosher cafe’s windows and a fresh anti-Israel slogan painted on a bridge,&#8221; it continued. &#8220;All my grandparents were Holocaust survivors who found safe haven, and built new lives, in the UK, so of course I am twitching with latent anxiety and the creeping dangers of the masses not speaking out against terrorism. I sincerely hope Rishi Sunak honors his pledge to stand with Israel and protect British Jews.&#8221;
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London&#8217;s Metropolitan Police Service responded to Rowling&#8217;s post, saying, &#8220;We know our communities are feeling vulnerable after the terrorist attacks in Israel. More than 300 dedicated schools officers are undertaking visits and extra patrols. There is no place in our city for hate.&#8221;
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We know our communities are feeling vulnerable after the terrorist attacks in Israel.
More than 300 dedicated schools officers are undertaking visits and extra patrols.
There is no place in our city for hate.
&mdash; Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1712431247312515339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-k-rowling-gives-no-quarter-to-hamas-defenders-sniveling-apologists-for-rape-murder-and-torture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rowling</a> has been vocal in her criticism of the recent unprovoked attacks on Israel carried out by the terrorist group Hamas, and anyone who would attempt to justify what they had done.
Responding to reports of babies murdered by Hamas terrorists, Rowling said, &#8220;Now let the sniveling apologists for rape, murder and torture explain how this, too, was justified.&#8221;

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‘There Should Be Mass Outrage’: J.K. Rowling Reacts As U.K. School Officials Warn Jewish Children To Hide Identities

J.K. Rowling Reacts As UK School Officials Warn Jewish Children To Hide Identities

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