Now I know that many of you are feeling happy about the work the Trump administration has been doing so far. And I can understand that. They’ve accomplished some great things. They’ve rendered the lies of the news media as irrelevant as the maunderings of a mentally deranged man wandering the sidewalks shouting his paranoid delusions into the empty air until suddenly you think to yourself, ”Oh hey, look, that’s Brain Stelter.” They’ve protected girls from hulking predators who think they’re women instead of what they are, which is hulking predators who think they’re women instead of what they are. They’ve begun to ferret out government waste and fraud causing Democrats to pour into the streets crying “Give us back our waste and fraud!” which is even funnier to watch than that time Joe Biden fell down a flight of stairs and the news media told us this was the best and sharpest Joe Biden ever, which might have actually been true, which is part of what made it so funny, but still not as funny as watching Democrats protest the end of waste and fraud. Just in general, the Trump administration has fought back against the vast leftist conspiracy to dismantle western freedoms, so leftists can get back to doing fun leftist things, like in the sixties when they sang rock songs and used drugs and celebrated free sex until they realized, &#8220;Oh no, we’re in the Manson cult.&#8221; Those were the good old days, for leftists.
And yes, many of Trump’s actions have made ordinary Americans watch the news at night and then dance around their bedrooms in their underwear as if they were in some Chippendale revival of Riverdance or an underwear version of some big Broadway musical production number where everyone forms a kickline and sings about the brotherhood of man until your wife tells you knock it off and come to bed before you wake up the kids and anyway you look like an idiot.
But still, even in these moments of celebration, it’s important we note the times when the administration oversteps its mandate and does something we can’t approve of. Like the other day, for instance, when Vice President JD Vance gave a mean speech in Munich and made the Germans cry.
That’s not nice. After all, the Germans are our allies when they’re not trying to lay waste to human civilization, and here JD Vance was hectoring them about how they should stop censoring speech, and stop threatening to annul elections and stop letting millions of Islamists into their country to do jobs Germans have historically been able to do for themselves, like hating Jews and murdering people.
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And after the vice president’s speech, the German chair of the conference, Adolf von Shmendrick — or whatever his name was, I didn’t check because I thought we’d gotten rid of the Germans already, but apparently they’re back for some reason. Anyway, this Adolf von Shmendrick guy got up to speak and started choking back tears and saying it just wasn’t fair, the way America kept getting in Germany’s way every time Germany started to work up a really good head of steam. 
Between snuffles and sniffles and occasional sneezles and even a quiet boo hoo hoo, Chairman von Shmendrick said, “In World War One, Americans ruined our brilliant plan to wage trench warfare over fifteen feet of lifeless French mud for the rest of history. In World War Two, Americans reduced our nation to rubble after we had raised it to the very heights of barbarism. And now, when we finally figure out how to destroy Europe without firing a shot, you turn up again and lecture us about western values like free speech. Let me remind you, it was the German people of the 1920s who used hate speech laws to shut down Nazi rhetoric and prevent Hitler from making appearances, and that worked out great.”
So remember, my fellow Americans, as happy as we may be with the Trump administration’s efforts to restore American greatness, we must always maintain a concerned expression on our faces when we think of our sad European allies while we’re Riverdancing in our underwear.
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This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
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Margaret Brennan, the host of “Face the Nation,” must have skipped basic World War II history wherever she went to school. It’s hard to fathom any other explanation for the indefensible <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/cbs-host-blasted-bonkers-claim-110009274.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADK89IUcImGk1CrzoyQDLZccqWrRkEJnE-20e6ra9rUwvHv7TEmGpUUphNaxHdos_ma3LvO08Gduee51bRmZKYJYQ7_PZ0PuTmHtNcxxWvGu7RxIoSUVdaVfiDCadd_qpzOyTz7iDto-xOE9Sjx2I5Qv6rFXbe9v486BIckLtmF5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim</a> she made about freedom of speech while she was debating—sorry, “interviewing”—Secretary of State Marco Rubio about Vice President Vance’s deserved chastisement of European governments for their censorship regimes.
Brennan’s claim that free speech in Europe is dangerous because in Nazi Germany it “was weaponized to conduct a genocide” is so historically wrong as to be laughable.
Brennan believes that free speech existed in Nazi Germany? Really? I know that’s untrue not only from history, but from the experiences of my own mother and grandmother, who filled my youth with stories of the government oppression they saw and experienced in the 1930s in Nazi Germany.
Secretary Rubio quickly hit back, correctly observing that “free speech wasn’t used to conduct genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime.”
Brennan obviously does not seem to understand the difference between censorship and propaganda. Free speech swiftly disappeared in Germany after the Nazi Party took control of the country, and propaganda—not free speech—began spewing out of the government as well as the newspapers, radio stations, and “journalists” that the Nazi Party controlled under its new “Reich Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda.”
Perhaps CBS should give Brennan an all-expense-paid trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. As their <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda-and-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Holocaust Encyclopedia</a> explains:
“When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the German constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Through decrees and laws, the Nazis abolished these civil rights…. Starting in 1934, it was illegal to criticize the Nazi government.”
The Nazis closed down or took over anti-Nazi newspapers. In another move to control communications, the Nazis passed the Schriftleitergesetz (also known as the Editorial Control Act) in 1933, a law that required all journalists to be licensed by the government to practice their profession. As the <a href="https://arolsen-archives.org/en/news/nazi-germanys-schriftleitergesetz-the-end-of-freedom-of-the-press/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arolsen Archives</a> at the International Center on Nazi Persecution explains, anyone expressing anti-Nazi views would not be licensed and those who received licenses were “directly subordinate to the Ministry of Propaganda and accountable to the Ministry—instead of their publishers.”
The censorship regime didn’t just apply to the media of the time, newspapers and radio stations. It applied to ordinary Germans, too. Germans like my grandparents quickly learned that any criticism of the regime, any disagreement with the propaganda being taught to students in the public schools—even just a joke about Hitler—could lead to swift arrest and punishment.
Brennan apparently is unaware that the first German concentration camps were not set up when World War II started; they were opened almost as soon as Hitler and his party took over in the 1930s. Dachau, the <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/concentration-camps-1933-39" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first</a> such camp for political prisoners and anyone else who criticized or opposed the government, Hitler, or the Nazi Party, opened on March 22, 1933.
Dachau and the other camps <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/concentration-camps-1933-39" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were used</a> to “imprison and intimidate the leaders of political, social, and cultural movements that the Nazis perceived to be a threat to the survival of the regime.”
Freedom of speech used to “weaponize genocide”? Wrong! Freedom of speech disappeared into Dachau and the <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/concentration-camps-1933-39" target="_blank" rel="noopener">numerous</a> other camps set up throughout Germany.
In fact, these camps, whose purpose was to suppress free speech and all opposition to the Nazi’s hideous regime, “became the model for the Nazi concentration camp system” during the war that was used to murder millions of Jews and others whom the Nazis considered “subhumans,” and to imprison Nazi opponents like Lutheran Minister Martin Niemöller.
Niemöller famously <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-biography#:~:text=Then%20they%20came%20for%20me,imprisoned%20for%20opposing%20Hitler's%20regime." target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> himself and others for not speaking out sooner about the suppression of the Nazi regime, including its censorship, saying, “Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
What JD Vance did at the Munich Security Conference was to speak up for those Europeans whose freedom of speech is being violated today and for the vital importance of preserving that right. He was dead-on in criticizing countries like Germany and the United Kingdom, using specific <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/18/vance-speech-munich-full-text-read-transcript-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">examples</a> such as the German government going after individuals who post “anti-feminist” commentary online or the British government convicting an Army veteran of the “heinous crime” of silently praying close to an abortion clinic, if you can call 50 meters close.
Or the Swedish judge who commented on the recent criminal conviction of a Christian activist, saying that the country’s laws protecting free speech don’t extend to speech that risks “offending the group that holds that belief.” That is a perilous view that short circuits the ability of anyone to say anything critical about any belief because it might “offend” someone who holds that belief.
Vance admitted, “in the interest of truth,” that this was happening in our country, too. The Biden administration “threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called misinformation,” opinions that our own government disagreed with or didn’t like. But then Margaret Brennan probably sees nothing wrong with that either, since she believes freedom of speech can be weaponized if it allows unwoke, politically unacceptable opinions to be expressed.
Probably the most disappointing aspect of this whole affair—other than Margaret Brennan’s profound ignorance and apparent disdain for the First Amendment—is the hostile reception of European leaders to Vance justifiably calling them out.
The most important part of his presentation was the offer he made to cooperate with them in order to stop this type of misbehavior. “Just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds,” he said, “so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite, and I hope we can work together on that.”
“We may disagree with your view, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree,” said Vance.
For the citizens of Europe, including the members of my extended family who are still there, I can only hope that these EU governments finally start taking the same attitude as JD Vance towards their own citizens and stop raiding, arresting, investigating, and punishing them for expressing views that those governments disagree with or don’t like.
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Hans von Spakovsky is a Senior Legal Fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
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The Trump Administration is making some fairly serious moves, and one of those moves involves pushing Europe to stand on its own two feet — for the first time in nearly a century.
Since the end of World War II, the United States has bankrolled European security. That’s because Europe destroyed itself during World War II. The United States had to prop up Europe afterward so that it didn&#8217;t become a communist-ridden hellhole.
And then Europe essentially became a sick man reliant on the ministrations of the United States and our taxpayer dollars in order to uphold itself against the Soviet Union.
Then the Soviet Union fell. And rather than Europe actually getting its act together, Europe simply continued to live on largesse from the United States. We helped prop up their security arrangements; we helped prop up NATO.
Meanwhile, they themselves got more robust in their stupidity. They decided they could play with house money — meaning, they decided they could be as Left-wing as they wanted while also knowing the United States would provide an almost endless security guarantee for them.
So, they decided open immigration from radical Islamist countries would be a great idea. They decided to pass forms of blasphemy laws in their own country in order to facilitate their idiotic notion that a post-colonialist society ought to be invaded by many of the areas that had once been colonized. They believed they would put those policies in place without any negative side effects.
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Over the weekend, Vice President JD Vance spoke at the Munich Security Conference, and the Europeans became enraged. In his speech, he addressed some problems in Europe involving, for example, China and Russia. But the biggest problem is that Europe has forgotten what Europe is about.
Europeans don&#8217;t like being told this. The Europeans like to believe they&#8217;re the sophisticates on the block. They like to believe they are more nuanced and knowledgeable than brash, annoying Americans.
But what Vance said was 100% true. He called out the fact that Europe decided to let terrorists into their own borders and to crack down on free speech, free market, and economics — all of their own choice. He further questioned why America should have to pay for it, precisely.
Vance <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/frightening-bullshit-senate-democrat-hammers-jd-vance-saying-europes-biggest-threat-is-within-not-russia-or-china/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>:
<blockquote>The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia. It’s not China. It’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/us-vice-president-jd-vance-attack-europe-migration-free-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">values shared</a> with the United States.</blockquote>
This should be considered alongside the speech Vance gave three days prior at the Paris AI Action Summit. In it, he chided the European Union for being so risk-averse that they were basically cracking down on their own ability to innovate in the AI space.
Dominic Green, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, wrote in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/jd-vances-message-at-munich-foreign-policy-europe-america-bc4a8b82" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>:
<blockquote>Combine the two speeches and you have the classic American one-two. Economic and individual freedom support each other. Innovation, competitiveness and risk-taking are the natural partners of liberty, free speech and democracy. Europe should be the natural partner of the U.S. and a key link in the emerging American-led alignment. But Europe is divorced from reality.</blockquote>
Green is correct. One of the seeming policies of the Trump administration is to force the Europeans to own their own policies or to dissociate from their own stupidity of the past. And that stupidity is very, very real.
For instance, if you say something insulting about Islam in Britain, you might go to jail for as long as some of the people engaged in trafficking of young white girls in Rotherham. CBS’ “60 Minutes” reported that German officials have openly acknowledged they will criminally prosecute people for insulting others in public. A German official <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1891328859372400705">added</a>, “The fine could be even higher if you insult someone in the internet. Because on the internet, it stays there.”
“60 Minutes” is pushing for this. How do we know? Because this is the overall view of the legacy media: Only things the legacy media like being said should actually be said.
Margaret Brennan of CBS’ News “Face the Nation” <a href="https://x.com/michaelbd/status/1891206009508536367" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> Secretary of State Marco Rubio. She chided Vance for going to Europe saying of Vance in Germany, “He was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide, and he met with the head of a political party that has far-Right views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the Right.”
“I have to disagree with you,” Rubio fired back. “Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. 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 had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none.”
By the way, there was not a lot of free speech prior to Nazi Germany. The Weimar Republic had many laws on the books that restricted speech. In fact, Adolf Hitler ended up spending some time in jail, not because of his speech but because he tried to lead a revolt. And then afterward, he wasn&#8217;t allowed to speak publicly for several years. Joseph Goebbels, the publicist for Hitler, actually was forced not to speak publicly. There were numerous lawsuits against Goebbels.
In fact, hate speech laws in Weimar Germany did not prevent the rise of the Nazis. In many ways, they actually facilitated the rise of the Nazis because people thought the Nazis might have something to say but were being suppressed.
There is a normal human tendency to buck against censorship by suggesting the person has something to say.
This is in accordance with the Left-wing perspective that you can shut down opinions you don&#8217;t like to magically protect yourself from the impact of those opinions. 
JD Vance was saying in Europe, “Guys, you&#8217;ve given up the thing that made you Europe in the first place.”
All of this is part and parcel of a much broader attempt by the United States to force the Europeans to stand up on their own two feet. And that is most evident when it comes to Ukraine.
Ukraine is exceptionally close to the rest of Europe. Ukraine borders a number of European countries, including Hungary, Poland, and Romania, among others. Though Europeans have increased their defense spending, they have been hesitant to take further action. They want the United States to foot the bill.
Thus, the Trump administration has been saying to the Europeans, “Listen, we&#8217;re tired of footing the bill. This is on your continent. Why don&#8217;t you take a leading role here? And if you want to take a leading role in the negotiations, perhaps you should step up to the table and increase your defense spending. Perhaps you should make the kinds of moves that might lead people to take you seriously when you guarantee, for example, Ukrainian security. Why is it that the United States always gets dragged into your domestic squabbles?”
Precisely. The Trump administration is not saying the United States should leave Ukraine to the predations of Vladimir Putin. They are trying to cajole the Europeans to do what they&#8217;re supposed to do.
According to the Associated Press, top diplomats from Russia and the United States met Tuesday in Saudi Arabia to discuss improving ties and bringing the war in Ukraine to an end. No Ukrainian officials attended the meeting.
On the surface, the United States might appear to be leaving Ukraine out of the loop or, perhaps, making a deal to then cram down on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine.
But this is also a way of forcing the Europeans to the table. If they say, “We want to hear what the United States is saying,” and they want to come to the table, the question becomes: “What is it that makes you valuable in this conversation?”
This is one way of getting the Europeans to step up and do what they are supposed to do.
All of this makes perfect sense, to say to the Europeans: “Listen, you want to sit down at the table? You don&#8217;t get a free ride anymore.” It doesn&#8217;t get to be like the U.N., where France has a seat on the Security Council without doing anything for collective security.
If you want to be part of this conversation, you should have some skin in the game.
We&#8217;re going to find out very quickly who&#8217;s willing to put their money where their mouth is.

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Vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) said on Monday that Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping&#8217;s mindset is much closer to Nazi Germany than the former Soviet Union.
Vance made the comparison during an interview with Hugh Hewitt while discussing what policies a second Trump administration would have when it comes to confronting an increasingly aggressive China.
Vance said that it was obvious that China wants to take over Taiwan, but it was not clear just how badly they desire the island.
&#8220;I think part of American policy over the next few years has to be to make it as costly as possible for them to seize it by force,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is why it’s important to give the Taiwanese the defensive weapon systems they need &#8230; because if we make it harder for Xi to take Taiwan, that’s going to change his calculus as much as possible.&#8221;
He noted that war game simulations have shown that it would be &#8220;extremely difficult&#8221; to repel a Chinese invasion if the Chinese managed to establish a foothold on the island.
He said that the Biden-Harris administration has failed to deliver the weapons that Taiwan needs in a timely fashion to establish deterrence.
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When asked what he knows about Xi, Vance responded that the dictator was &#8220;certainly ruthless.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t know that he is a Leninist as much as a sort of ultra-Chinese nationalist in some ways,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think that the Nazis in the 30s and 40s are sort of a better mental frame for Xi than maybe the Soviets of the 50s and 60s.&#8221;
He said that the Chinese believe that they are destined to rule the world and that Western civilization is nothing more than a &#8220;blip in the historical radar.&#8221;
&#8220;And so I think that we have to recognize they have extremely ambitious plans, and we have to have our own ambitious plans to counter it,&#8221; he said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a>: Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is a &#8220;ruthless&#8221; &#8220;ultra-Chinese nationalist&#8221; who is like &#8220;the Nazis in the 30s and 40s&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/CW46NMVtja">pic.twitter.com/CW46NMVtja</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1848393232163483889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Jake Larson returned to Normandy, France, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/world-war-ii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">D-Day invasion</a> — in which he had participated — and he told Christiane Amanpour that he knew exactly what he and his fellow soldiers had been fighting for.
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“Every one of us was prepared to give our life to kick Hitler’s ass out of Europe!” 101-year-old D-Day veteran Jake Larson tells me that he knew exactly what they were fighting for 80 years ago today. “I lost friends, everybody lost friends. But we were soldiers. We were prepared… <a href="https://t.co/gDa63cp9KG">pic.twitter.com/gDa63cp9KG</a>
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Amanpour began by asking Larson whether he remembered what it was like to step out of the landing craft into the water, and he was adamant: &#8220;Like it was yesterday.&#8221;
He went on to say that the &#8220;17-year-old pilot&#8221; had dropped them off a bit short of the mark he was supposed to hit, so that when he and the others stepped off the landing craft, they had immediately been neck-deep in the water.
&#8220;I got out of the landing craft and I had water right up to my chin,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He let us out a little it too far, but he was just a 17-year-old pilot for that boat.&#8221;
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&#8220;You were all kids,&#8221; Amanpour exclaimed.
&#8220;We were all kids, yes,&#8221; Larson agreed.
Amanpour then asked whether he had known at the time what it was he was fighting for — and he said that all of them had known exactly what was at stake.
&#8220;Definitely. That we knew. Every one of us — every one of us was prepared to give our life to kick Hitler’s a** out of Europe!&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we did! We lost quite a few — we lost friends. I lost friends. But we were soldiers. We were prepared to give our life.&#8221;

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On Wednesday at the United Nations, UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer blasted the anti-Israel UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, for her vicious attack on Israel in which she called Israel’s attack on Hamas in Gaza a “genocide” and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
Albanese intoned to the UN, “Following nearly six months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of and to present my finding: ‘The Anatomy Of A Genocide.’ The colonial amnesia of the West has condoned Israel’s colonial settler project from the violent history of the very birth of the State of Israel.”
Albanese then tried to turn the Palestinian slogan that calls for the eradication of Israel into a demand for equal rights, saying, “People around the world are taking to the streets, gathering, protesting, and demanding equal rights of all &#8216;from the river to the sea.&#8217;”
She then likened Israel’s defense of the state and its attack on the terrorist group Hamas that perpetrated the horrific October 7 massacre of more than 1200 people on Israeli soil to the Holocaust in which the Nazis murdered six million Jews in an attempt to wipe the Jewish people from history.
“The Israeli project is not only apartheid but aims at a final solution,” she claimed.
Neuer then fired back:
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Ms. Albanese, your report accuses Israel of genocide. Now, at page 2, you say your report does not examine the Hamas crimes of October 7, because they are “Beyond the geographic scope of my mandate.” Now, you went on a recent official trip to Australia, all expenses paid by the U.N. Could you explain how Australia is within the geography of your mandate but not the mass murder, rape, torture committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, invading Israel from Gaza, kidnapping hundreds of hostages including babies and Holocaust survivors?  If you ignore the Hamas massacre that started the war, the 14,000 rockets fired against Israeli towns, 130 hostages now being tortured in Gaza, how can you possibly understand the war?
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He continued:
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Now, although you say it’s not in your mandate, you have commented. On February 10, you mocked the statement of President Macron that October 7 constituted the greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century. You said the victims were “not killed because of their Judaism,” but rather “in reaction to Israel’s oppression.”
In response, for the first time in history, both France and Germany condemned a U.N. rapporteur for anti-Semitism. France replied to you that “The October 7 massacre is the biggest anti-Semitic massacre of the 21st Century,” and “to deny it is wrong.” France said it was, “scandalous” and a “disgrace” for you to “appear to justify it” by “dragging in the name of the United Nations.” Germany, Madame Rapporteur, said it was “appalling” for you to “justify the horrific terror attacks” and to “deny their anti-Semitic nature.” Germany said, Madame Rapporteur, your remarks were as “disgrace.”
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“We agree,” he concluded.
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Never before in the history of the United Nations did France or Gemany condemn a rapporteur for antisemitism. Francesca Albanese is now the first. She says “the Jewish lobby” controls America, Israel commits genocide, and cries out “From the River to the Sea.” I took the floor: <a href="https://t.co/P4H53c4EFa">pic.twitter.com/P4H53c4EFa</a>
&mdash; Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1773060993746104727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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One German woman found herself and her family in the middle of what could have been a deadly skirmish, but even as the Battle of the Bulge raged just a few miles away, she demanded — and got — the Christmas truce that so many others had prayed for in vain.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/24/christmas-eve-truce-1944/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elisabeth Vincken</a> left her hometown of Aachen, Germany, after Allied bombs had put an end to the family&#8217;s bakery and their home in April of 1944. She and her 12-year-old son moved to a small cottage in the Hurtgen forest — which had previously been used by her husband Hubert when he went on long hunting trips. Hubert, who was drafted into the German army, was stationed nearby.
But Elisabeth and her son were alone when, on December 16th, the bloody campaign that would later be known as the Battle of the Bulge began — and it soon became clear that her husband would not be visiting for Christmas dinner as he had planned. The weather turned then as well, and brutally cold temperatures combined with low visibility resulted in a fair number of soldiers on both sides of the conflict becoming separated from their units during combat.
Still, Elisabeth and her son had saved a fat goose — nicknamed Hermann Goring because of his girth — for dinner.
The battle was close enough that the sounds of the guns could be heard even inside the cabin, so Vincken was <a href="https://battleofthebulge.org/2023/09/12/a-bulge-christmas-truce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">immediately on her guard</a> when she heard a knock on the door on Christmas Eve.
She opened the door to find three soldiers outside — two standing and one collapsed in the snow nearby — and when they began to speak, she and Fritz realized that they were Americans. All three were armed.
&#8220;I was almost paralyzed with fear, for though I was a child, I knew that harsh law of war: Anyone giving aid and comfort to the enemy would be shot,&#8221; Fritz recalled in a later interview, noting that his mother had also been well aware of the possible consequences but had been moved to compassion when she realized the wounded American was young enough to be her son as well.
&#8220;Go get Hermann,&#8221; she told her son, and he went to fetch the goose they&#8217;d been saving to share when Hubert was able to celebrate with them, along with some potatoes.
After some trial and error, they learned that both Elisabeth and one of the American soldiers spoke French — a discovery that made communication much easier among the group. The three said their names were Jim (who spoke French), Robin, and Harry.
Elisabeth had set about tending to Harry&#8217;s wounds when another knock came — and this time, Fritz opened the door to greet four German soldiers. After exchanging greetings, the soldiers informed the Vinckens that they were lost and looking for shelter from the cold.
&#8220;Of course,&#8221; Elisabeth replied. Knowing exactly what she was risking, Elisabeth invited them in as well — but told them that they must leave their weapons outside. &#8220;You can also have a fine, warm meal and eat till the pot is empty. But we have three other guests, whom you may not consider friends.&#8221;
One of the German soldiers objected: &#8220;Who is inside? Americans?&#8221;
&#8220;Listen, you could be my sons and they in there too. One of them is wounded and is fighting for his life and his two fellows are lost and hungry like you,&#8221; Elisabeth laid down the law. &#8220;It is the Holy Night and there will be no shooting here.&#8221;
Once all of the weapons were stowed and all seven men were inside, the tension was palpable — but Elisabeth went about preparing dinner anyway. &#8220;Quick, get more potatoes and some oats,&#8221; she told Fritz. &#8220;These boys are hungry, and a starving man is an angry one.&#8221;
As they waited for their meal, one of the German soldiers noticed the wounded American — and his own prior medical training kicked in, pushing aside any thoughts he had of animosity.
While Harry slept, the remaining six pooled their resources and came up with bread and wine to go with the chicken soup that Elisabeth was preparing. By the time she prayed over their meal, Fritz later recalled, she was moved to tears by the men and their willingness to set war aside on such a holy day.
By the time morning came, all seven of the men had to return to their respective places. Elisabeth gave the Americans a tablecloth to use as a stretcher for Harry, and the German soldiers gave them directions back to where they believed their units were located. And so on Christmas morning, the two groups set off from the Vinckens&#8217; cabin in opposite directions.
&#8220;Be careful, boys. I want you to get home someday where you belong. God bless you all!&#8221; Elisabeth said as they disappeared into the forest.
Years later, Fritz set out to find the men who had shared that Christmas Eve dinner with him and his mother — and through an appearance on &#8220;Unsolved Mysteries,&#8221; he was able to track down Ralph Blank.
Blank was one of the soldiers who had spent that night with the Vinckens in the Hurtgen Forest — and he was living in a nursing home in Frederick, Maryland.
&#8220;Your mother saved my life,&#8221; Blank told Fritz when they were reunited in 1996.
For Fritz, that meeting was everything he had hoped for: &#8220;Now I can die in peace. My mother’s courage won’t be forgotten and it shows what goodwill will do.&#8221;
&#8220;The inner strength of a single woman, who, by her wits and intuition, prevented potential bloodshed, taught me the practical meaning of the words &#8216;good will toward mankind,'&#8221; Fritz said in <a href="https://www.christianfamilynashville.com/index.php/spiritual/faith/1538-the-christmas-truce#:~:text=“Now%20and%20then%2C%20on%20a,the%20Battle%20of%20the%20Bulge.”" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another interview</a>. &#8220;I remember mother and those seven young soldiers, who met as enemies and parted as friends, right in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge.&#8221;

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‘There Will Be No Shooting Here’: How One Woman Demanded — And Got — A Christmas Truce In Germany, 1944

'There Will Be No Shooting Here': How One Woman Demanded — And Got — A Christmas Truce In 1944

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a photograph this week of a Nazi propaganda book that denies the Holocaust found inside a school in Gaza.
The book, &#8220;The Big Lie: The burning of 6 million Jews in the gas chambers,&#8221; was located inside Al-Quds University, according to the IDF.
&#8220;Under Hamas’ rule, school curriculums promote extremist antisemitic practices—calling for genocide against the Jewish people,&#8221; the IDF said. &#8220;This is another example for Hamas’ true ideology—and another reason for us to dismantle it.&#8221;
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Under Hamas’ rule, school curriculums promote extremist antisemitic practices—calling for genocide against the Jewish people.
This is another example for Hamas’ true ideology—and another reason for us to dismantle it. <a href="https://t.co/1Bx804NApk">pic.twitter.com/1Bx804NApk</a>
&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1726936387168117244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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According to an Arabic <a href="https://archive2.libya-al-mostakbal.org/news/clicked/90769">website</a>, the book reportedly claims that Jews invented a lie claiming that Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler exterminated them in concentration camps. The book claims that Jews spread disinformation to pressure governments around the world and to shape public opinion in favor of Israel when, in fact, the Nazis systematically <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/holocaust">murdered</a> 6 million Jews in concentration camps.
The discovery comes after the IDF found an Arabic copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in a children’s room at a home in Gaza.
“IDF forces discovered a copy of Hitler’s infamous book ‘Mein Kampf’ — translated into Arabic — in a child’s bedroom used as a Hamas terrorist base in Gaza,” the IDF said on X. “The book was discovered among the personal belongings of one of the terrorists, featuring annotations and highlights.”
“Hamas embraces the ideology of Hitler, the one responsible for the annihilation of the Jewish people,” the IDF added.
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Never again is NOW.
IDF forces discovered a copy of Hitler&#39;s infamous book &quot;Mein Kampf&quot;—translated into Arabic—in a child’s bedroom used as a Hamas terrorist base in Gaza. 
The book was discovered among the personal belongings of one of the terrorists, featuring annotations and… <a href="https://t.co/XMOE3jgKmm">pic.twitter.com/XMOE3jgKmm</a>
&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1723665392525021439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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During World War II, Hitler met with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, whom Palestinians see as one of the fathers of Palestinian nationalism, on November 28, 1941, at the Reich Chancellory in Berlin.
During the meeting, al-Husseini conveyed to Hitler that he was “admired by the entire Arab world” because “of the sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially the Palestinian cause,” according to an official German <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-official-record-what-the-mufti-said-to-hitler/">record</a> of the meeting. He told Hitler that the Arabs were natural friends with Nazi Germany because they both hated Jews.
Hitler told al-Husseini that Germany’s war against the Jews was “uncompromising” and that he actively opposed “the Jewish national home in Palestine” because he claimed it was “nothing other than a center, in the form of a state, for the exercise of destructive influence by Jewish interests,” the record said.
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Tens of thousands of Muslims also fought for Germany during WWII as Nazi Germany “made significant attempts to promote an alliance with the ‘Muslim world’ against their alleged common enemies,” according to a <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/how-nazis-courted-the-islamic-world-during-wwii/a-41358387">report</a> from German public state-owned international broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
Today, there are multiple schools in the Palestinian-controlled territories — both in Gaza and in the Judea and Samaria Area — that have been named after Nazi collaborators, according to a <a href="https://palwatch.org/storage/special%20reports/pa%20ministry%20of%20education%20schools%20named%20after%20terrorists,%20sept%202017.pdf">report</a> from Palestinian Media Watch.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement has also posted the covers of anti-Semitic children’s books from Nazi Germany on their social media pages.
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Fatah posts Nazi children&#39;s book: Don’t trust a fox or a Jew <a href="https://t.co/bojDJ6FTdn">https://t.co/bojDJ6FTdn</a> <a href="https://t.co/dEck63Qvht">pic.twitter.com/dEck63Qvht</a>
&mdash; Pal Media Watch (@palwatch) <a href="https://twitter.com/palwatch/status/659725085582999553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2015</a></blockquote>
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IDF: Nazi Propaganda Book Denying The Holocaust Located Inside Gaza School

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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

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The German city of Tangerhütte has announced plans to rename a day care center after migrant parents reportedly expressed concerns that the current name does not accurately reflect the diversity of the community.
The day care center is currently named after Anne Frank, a Jewish girl whose diary was published after she died at the age of 15 in a Nazi concentration camp — and according to local reports, migrant parents have complained that it is &#8220;challenging&#8221; to explain to their children who Frank was and why her story mattered.
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After migrant parent pressure, Anne Frank daycare center to be renamed <a href="https://twitter.com/ZvikaKlein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ZvikaKlein</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Germany?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Germany</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AnneFrank?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AnneFrank</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Holocaust?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Holocaust</a> <a href="https://t.co/6FzEhRd7OW">https://t.co/6FzEhRd7OW</a>
&mdash; The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1721306836073144757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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According to a <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-771852#771852" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Jerusalem Post, the daycare center&#8217;s director explained that &#8220;parents with migrant backgrounds feel uncertain about the name and find it challenging to explain to their children.&#8221;
An open society advocacy group, Miteinander eV, argued that there were certainly age-appropriate ways to discuss Frank&#8217;s story with younger children — and objected to the change, They said in a statement that especially as anti-semitism is on the rise in many areas, &#8220;renaming the daycare center sends the wrong signal.&#8221;
The city&#8217;s mayor, Andreas Brohm, has said the name change will go forward in spite of any concerns, noting that Anne Frank did not fit the parents&#8217; push to embrace a &#8220;new focus on diversity.&#8221;
&#8220;Ultimately, the parents and employees wanted a name that was more &#8216;child-friendly&#8217; and &#8216;better suited to their concept.&#8217; Their needs are more important than the global political situation,&#8221; the BILD newspaper reported.
&#8220;&#8216;Migrant parents&#8217; successfully got Anne Frank canceled in Germany? Seems a little on the nose,&#8221; Guy Benson responded to the news in a post on X.
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“Migrant parents” successfully got Anne Frank canceled in Germany? Seems a little on the nose. <a href="https://t.co/8XeGy0BuL4">https://t.co/8XeGy0BuL4</a>
&mdash; Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1721331314345861227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Imagine telling yourself in 2013 that in 10 years time, the Germans will be cancelling the &#8216;Anne Frank Kindergarten&#8217; because of &#8230;.. &#8216;Diversity,'&#8221; Gray Connolly <a href="https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1721655222123237884" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
&#8220;This is appalling. A German daycare center named after Anne Frank is changing its name,&#8221; said Aviva Klompas. &#8220;German media reports that parents want the center to push a message more focused on &#8216;international diversity.&#8217; Hear that? They are promoting diversity by erasing Jews.&#8221;
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This is appalling. A German daycare center named after Anne Frank is changing its name.
German media reports that parents want the center to push a message more focused on “international diversity.”
Hear that? They are promoting diversity by erasing Jews.
&mdash; Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1721535136490016972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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German City Renaming Anne Frank Daycare Center To Be More ‘Inclusive’ After Migrant Complaints

German City Renaming Anne Frank Daycare Center To Be More 'Inclusive' After Migrant Complaints

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