In 2011, my then 10-year-old son Jonah and I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
The two-story room with the wall of photos brought tears to my eyes. Hundreds of family pictures and portraits from a small Lithuanian town that was home to 4,000 Jews for nine centuries. These people looked like my relatives. A young man in his 30s looked just like my uncle at that age; a 15-year-old kid looked like Jonah in five years; a Hasidic man almost exactly resembled my cousin who is a rabbi in Rego Park, Queens, and so on. The Nazis killed every single Jew in that town, in two days. Nine centuries of history and tradition were wiped from the face of the Earth in just two days! 
Jewish history is littered with senseless and gut-wrenching pogroms (massacres) like this. For centuries Jews were killed for no other reason than they were Jews, had their own different religion, and their own different customs and traditions. In a sense, the Nazis simply continued the long history of pogroms, though on a vastly larger, industrial scale. 
After World War II, a miracle happened – the Jews got their own state. Unfortunately, it was in a hostile neighborhood. Israel, a tiny nation of musicians and scientists who have given so much to this world, was surrounded by 20 Arab countries, which normally could not stand each other but could finally agree on something – they wanted Israel gone, for no other reason than that they hated Jews. 
Jews, now Israelis, had to put down their violins and pens and learn how to defend their country from its neighbors, who attacked it on the day it was born and have kept trying to erase it from the map since. “Jews,” as Golda Meir said, “had a secret weapon: They had nowhere to go.” Against the odds, each time Israel was attacked (and it was never the attacker), it prevailed. 
When I left the Holocaust Museum, I felt incredible sadness but also relief. Relief that my kids and future generations would never have to experience anything like this again. Yes, the words never again have a special meaning to Jews. Never again are we going to be weak and to be slaughtered because we are different. 
But then came October 7th. Hamas, with sadistic creativity that made the Nazis look like amateurs, in just a few hours slaughtered 1,500 Jewish civilians. The Nazis tried hard to hide their atrocities, but not Hamas — jihadists celebrated theirs, live-streaming their sadism for the world to see. If only they loved life as much as they loved death, and had used their creativity to bring light instead of darkness, Gaza would have been another gem in the Middle East. 
In chess, there is a concept called a &#8220;forced move,&#8221; where a king, when in check, is left with no alternative moves and is forced to make a single, predictable move. 
The brutality of this massacre by Hamas forced Israel to move. Hamas knew Israel would have no choice but to invade Gaza, which Israel had previously vacated in 2005.. The problem with forced moves is that they are the worst and only moves. Israeli parents did not want to send their sons and daughters to die in Gaza, but the words never again are forever fresh in their minds, and memories of the Holocaust are still a deep, aching pain in their hearts. 
The United States lost 2,977 people in the 9/11 terrorist attack and we scorched the earth to destroy Al Qaeda. Israel&#8217;s population is only 9.3 million people. The 1,500 casualties Israel suffered would be equivalent to 45,000 people in the U.S. Can you imagine the response if the U.S. lost 45,000 people in a terrorist attack? 
Can you imagine what the U.S. response would be if Mexico had kept launching rockets into Texas, Arizona, and California for over a decade? The Mexicans would already be speaking only English and hamburgers would be their staple food. But this is the reality Israel faces year after year after year. It’s why most Israeli houses have bomb shelters. They have been heavily used over the past month, as Hamas and Hezbollah have barraged Israel with more than 8,000 rockets since October 7. The unceasing rocket attacks alone belie Hamas’ calls for a ceasefire. 
Then there is the issue of the Palestinians. 
Hamas, the elected government of Gaza, cares even less about the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip than it cares about the lives of the terrorists in its army. One of the Hamas commanders was asked why they didn&#8217;t let the Palestinian populace hide in their tunnels. He answered that it was the responsibility of the UN to take care of the Palestinians. One could argue, in addition to the 244 Jews taken hostage, Hamas is also holding two million Palestinians hostage. 
This is why they are launching missiles at Israel from hospitals and schools and hiding in tunnels. They are restricting <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/hamas-hoarding-vast-amounts-fuel-gaza-hospitals-run-low-us-officials-s-rcna122977" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fuel</a> to their own hospitals, which are running on generators. They are stealing humanitarian funds from their own people and have <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-releases-recording-of-gazan-saying-hamas-shooting-at-people-trying-to-flee-south/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot</a> those who tried to flee from the war zone to the south of Gaza. 
Today, Israel is fighting two wars: One against Islamic jihadists and one against public opinion. One war it will win while paying a high price in casualties; the other one it is losing. 
Israel, the only real democracy in the Middle East, values all life and goes out of its way to avoid harming innocent civilians. However, it is at war with an enemy that welcomes death and uses Palestinian citizens as human shields. This is Hamas&#8217; intention: It is willing to lose the battle over Gaza to turn Western allies and potential Israeli friends (such as Saudi Arabia) against Israel. 
Hamas is fine with putting Palestinian lives in the line of fire from the Israeli Defense Forces. The lives of Palestinians, in their minds, are no price to pay to destroy Israel. If Hamas would put down their weapons, there would be peace. If Israel puts down their weapons, there would be no Israel. 
Hamas is playing up to a weak, self-doubting Western world, turning us into useful idiots. The West has been conditioned to think of itself as oppressors, especially if someone has a darker skin color. The West’s collective guilt from centuries of colonial past is there for Hamas to exploit. We lose objectivity and the ability to reason. If we were to look at a chessboard, we’d automatically assume that the white pieces were at fault.
It is also shocking to see Al Qaeda and ISIS <a href="https://twitter.com/RonEng1ish/status/1720700314624340145">flags</a> at these demonstrations in Europe, on the same streets where these terrorists killed hundreds and injured thousands of Europeans over the last twenty years in shootings and suicide bombings. Europeans have already forgotten the attacks in Madrid in 2004 (191 killed), two attacks in London in 2005 (52 killed), the attack in Brussels in 2016 (32 killed), and many others (the list is <a href="https://twitter.com/vitaliyk/status/1720920332217786606">long</a>). And what about the thousands killed by Al Qaeda on 9/11?
There is no difference between the flags of Al Qaeda and ISIS and the Nazi swastika, except that the Nazi banner was raised by light-skinned Germans and Islamic jihadists flags are paraded by darker-skinned terrorists.
Our &#8220;colonial&#8221; guilty conscience is willing to overlook the atrocities committed by Al Qaeda and ISIS followers and the values they represent. Yes, values matter. We forget, or are unwilling to assert, that our Western values are better than theirs because they represent enlightenment – liberty, democracy, equality, freedom of speech, due process. I am not apologetic about it – yes, they are better. Not all values are created equal.
The jihadists, however, seem to be winning the hearts and minds of university students.
University campuses are becoming cradles of anti-Semitism. Jewish students are being bullied and threatened. Even before the bodies of 1,500 slaughtered Jews had time to cool, instead of condemning terror, students jumped into anti-Israeli demonstrations. Several dozen Ivy League school clubs signed a letter blaming Israel for the massacre.
I experienced anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union when I was a cadet in college. It was always normalized from the top. A joke from my commanding officer, in front of other cadets, about my Jewish roots was like a starting pistol for other cadets in the college to make fun of my heritage, and it led to perpetual bullying. Yes, this is what anti-Semitism feels like – perpetual bullying by one’s society. It gets worse. After a while, you get a feeling that you somehow belong to a lower caste than everyone else and have an inexplicable feeling of guilt, for what I’m still not sure.
A university administrators should protect and defend all students — regardless of religion, skin color, or sexual orientation — from racism, discrimination, and anti-Semitism. All students matter!
A poem by German pastor Martin Niemoller, on the wall at the end of the exhibit at the Holocaust Museum, has always stuck with me:
<blockquote>First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.</blockquote>
Don’t be fooled, the version of Islam propagated by the jihadists of Hamas and ISIS is not a peaceful religion. It promotes a dystopia of hatred and intolerance that wants you to either join it or be beheaded.
First, they’ll come after the only light of freedom in the darkness of the Middle East, but they won&#8217;t stop there. They think their values are superior to ours. They will want the rest of the Western &#8220;infidels&#8221; to bend the knee, too. Jews are their first stop but not their final solution.
If you are standing still when they come for the Jews, remember the words of the pastor:
&#8220;And there was no one left to speak for me.&#8221;
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Vitaliy Katsenelson is the CEO of <a href="https://imausa.com/">IMA</a>. He is the author of &#8220;Soul in the Game – The Art of a Meaningful Life&#8221; (Harriman House). His essays can be read on <a href="https://investor.fm/">investor.fm</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Activists Rally For Support Of Palestine And Call For Cease Fire At NYC’s City Hall

For Hamas, The Final Solution Does Not Stop With Israel

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The world is still reeling, set back on its heels by the horrific attacks perpetrated last week by Hamas terrorists against Israeli men, women, and children — many of them civilians.
During those attacks, Hamas terrorists murdered more than 1,300 people and wounded thousands more — and then proceeded to rape, torture, and kidnap Israeli civilians, taking them into Gaza and holding them there.
As the reports flooded in, each one sharing in more horrific detail the brutality with which Hamas had carried out the systematic slaughter — even going door to door in Jewish neighborhoods and killing everyone in sight — observers began to make the obvious comparison: this attack was a clear attempt at a second Holocaust.
Daily Wire editor emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-the-worst-day-for-jews-since-the-holocaust" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> minced no words when he said, &#8220;Understand, this is the worst disaster for the Jews since the Holocaust. It is worse than the 1973 Yom Kippur War. That was a military operation designed at eviscerating Israel, but at least it was a territorial military attempting to take on another territorial military. These are terrorists who have no actual military agenda. Their only agenda is to murder as many Jews as possible because anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, because the destruction of the state of Israel is coincident with the murder of as many Jews as possible, with more Jewish blood spilled.&#8221;
Author J.K. Rowling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/there-should-be-mass-outrage-j-k-rowling-reacts-as-u-k-school-officials-warn-jewish-children-to-hide-identities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to reports that Jewish children in the United Kingdom were being warned by school officials to hide indicators of their faith, saying, &#8220;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.&#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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And as this new tragedy unfolds, it is important to remember those who stood up for the Jewish people even before their homeland was restored in 1948 — like Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, whose actions saved some 200 Jewish prisoners of war and earned him the designation of <a href="https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/edmonds.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Righteous Gentile</a> from Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.
<a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/roddie-edmonds-patrick-henry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edmonds</a> was a member of the 422nd Regiment of the 106th Infantry Division, and he arrived in France along with his men — and the division&#8217;s 423rd and 424th regiments — and traveled by truck across France and into Belgium, arriving in the Ardennes Forest in early December of 1944. Less than a week after he and his men had taken up a position near the German border, they were attacked and quickly surrounded by a German tank division in the beginning of what would become known as the Battle of the Bulge.
Despite being cut off from supplies and reinforcements, Edmonds&#8217; unit held out for six days until they were finally captured on December 21st. They were then forced to march 50 kilometers (about 30 miles) to a train in Gerolstein, Germany. They spent four days on the train — where they were given nothing to eat or drink until they reached their final destination: Bad Orb, Germany.
The prisoners were separated in Bad Orb, divided into groups of enlisted men, officers, and non-commissioned officers (NCOs). The NCOs were sent to a POW camp known as Stalag IXA in Ziegenhain. As a Master Sergeant, Edmonds — at just 25 years old — was the highest ranking NCO in the group of just under 1,300 men, so the Nazi guards placed him in charge of the prisoners.
German military policy was to identify the Jewish POWs and send them to concentration camps — where they would be forced into slave labor or exterminated — so the order came down in Stalag IXA on January 27, 1945, for all of the Jewish prisoners to assemble.
&#8220;Tomorrow morning, at roll call, all Jewish Americans must assemble — only the Jews — no one else. All who disobey will be shot,&#8221; the voice came over the loudspeaker.
Edmonds, who had a fair idea of what was likely to happen to any Jewish prisoner who obeyed that order, gathered his senior NCOs together and told them, &#8220;We&#8217;re not doing that.&#8221;
Instead, Edmonds reminded them that the Geneva Convention only required prisoners to give captors their names, ranks, and serial numbers – not their religious affiliations. His plan was simple: when the Nazi guards called for the Jewish prisoners to report, every one of the American prisoners would report together. To a man, they would all swear that they were Jewish.
Edmonds and his men knew that they were taking a huge risk — and that the Nazis could simply choose to execute them all on the spot. He passed the night alternately checking on his men and praying for the courage to carry out his plan, reflecting on Proverbs 28:1: &#8220;The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.&#8221;
When <a href="https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/arkansan-credited-with-saving-200-american-jews-in-wwii-honored/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all 1,275 prisoners reported</a> the following morning, a German Major named Siegmann voiced his frustration to Edmonds: &#8220;What is this, a joke?&#8221;
&#8220;Under Article Seventeen of the Geneva Convention, prisoners-of-war are only required to provide name, rank, and serial number,&#8221; Edmonds replied.
&#8220;Were my orders not clear, Sergeant? Only the Jews were to fall out,&#8221; the Major protested.
Edmonds did not budge: &#8220;Major, we’ll give you name, rank, and serial number. That’s all.&#8221;
&#8220;They cannot all be Jews,&#8221; Siegmann complained.
But Edmonds defiantly declared, &#8220;We are all Jews here.&#8221;
&#8220;Sergeant, one last chance,&#8221; the angry Major pointed his sidearm at Edmonds. &#8220;You will order the Jews to step forward or I will shoot you right now.&#8221;
Neither Edmonds nor his men moved. Edmonds stared straight ahead as he replied, &#8220;Major, you can shoot me, but you’ll have to kill all of us — because we know who you are — and you will be tried for war crimes when we win this war. And you will pay.&#8221;
Siegmann eventually lowered his weapon, stalking away in frustration.
It is estimated that Edmonds&#8217; actions saved more than 200 Jewish prisoners that day.
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FLASHBACK: How One American Christian Saved 200 Jewish POWs With Just Five Words

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jamaal-bowman">Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY)</a> blamed his staff for a memo labeling his critics <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nazis">Nazis</a>, saying he &#8220;condemn[s] the use of the term Nazi out of its precise definition.&#8221; But it was just a few months ago that he called Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michael-knowles">Michael Knowles</a> the same thing, leading the conservative commentator to call out Bowman on social media.
Bowman, under investigation after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/capitol-hill-media-veteran-explains-why-bowmans-fire-alarm-excuse-makes-no-sense">pulled</a> a fire alarm in a House office building while trying to get to a government spending vote over the weekend, <a href="https://twitter.com/maxpcohen/status/1708896485444600117">released a memo</a> to the offices of other Democrats with multiple suggested talking points, including: &#8220;Republicans need to instead focus their energy on the Nazi members of their party before anything else.&#8221;
After the guidance went public, Bowman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bowmans-office-urged-democrats-to-distract-from-fire-alarm-incident-by-calling-republicans-nazis">distanced himself</a> from the suggested talking point. “I just became aware that in our messaging guidance, there was inappropriate use of the term Nazi without my consent,” Bowman <a href="https://twitter.com/RepBowman/status/1708925626407674238">said in a post to X</a>. “I condemn the use of the term Nazi out of its precise definition. It is important to specify the term Nazi to refer to members of the Nazi party &amp; neo-Nazis.”
One of the people who responded to Bowman&#8217;s statement was Knowles, who shared a screenshot of <a href="https://twitter.com/JamaalBowmanNY/status/1633107848644141057">a post from one of Bowman&#8217;s accounts</a> calling Knowles a &#8220;Nazi&#8221; in response to a clip of The Daily Wire host advocating for eradicating <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-just-not-really-a-genocide-kind-of-guy-michael-knowles-addresses-libel-at-buffalo">transgender ideology</a> from public life.
&#8220;Was it also an accidental, non-consensual use of the term when you called me a Nazi back in March? Do you condemn that use of the term too?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1708941635210408286">Knowles asked</a>.
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Was it also an accidental, non-consensual use of the term when you called me a Nazi back in March? Do you condemn that use of the term too? <a href="https://t.co/frEmJjJ16u">https://t.co/frEmJjJ16u</a> <a href="https://t.co/YFp1OJwKho">pic.twitter.com/YFp1OJwKho</a>
&mdash; Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1708941635210408286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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As of press time, Bowman has not issued any public response to Knowles. The <a href="https://twitter.com/JamaalBowmanNY/status/1633107848644141057">March 7, 2023 post</a> has not been deleted.
Bowman has apologized for pulling the fire alarm and claimed he made a mistake in thinking that pulling it would open a door, but Bowman has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-bowman-should-endure-same-fate-as-january-6-prisoners">faced blowback</a> — including a <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4234822-ny-republican-introduces-resolution-to-expel-bowman-for-pulling-fire-alarm/#:~:text=Rep.%20Nicole%20Malliotakis%20(R%2DN.,Tuesday%2C%20July%2011%2C%202023.">GOP bid</a> to expel him from Congress over allegations that he violated federal and local laws.
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The Daily Wire host <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1708199602602590565">posted</a> over the weekend, after it first became known that Bowman pulled the fire alarm, that the congressman &#8220;once called me &#8216;a Nazi hellbent on keeping only white men alive and in power&#8217; because I said boys and girls are different.&#8221;

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Bowman Says He Disavows ‘Nazi’ Talking Point. His Own Post About Michael Knowles Says Otherwise.

Bowman Disavows 'Nazi' Talking Point He Used Against Michael Knowles

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After his country’s parliament gave a World War II Ukrainian veteran an ovation, only to learn later that he was part of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, the military wing of the Nazi Party, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent time focusing on “Russian propaganda” and “Russian disinformation.”
The ovation for Yaroslav Hunka came during a session in which President Volodomyr Zelensky of Ukraine addressed the Canadian Parliament to thank Canada for its support. The speaker of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota, then recognized 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, who fought the Russians in World War II. Hunka was a member of the First Ukrainian Division in World War II, which was also known as he 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, aka SS Galichina,
“Division members are accused of killing Polish and Jewish civilians, although the unit has not been found guilty of any war crimes by a tribunal,” the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66908958#:~:text=Division%20members%20are%20accused%20of,the%20Western%20Allies%20in%201945." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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Fact-Check Fails &#8211; Memo to Ukrainian President Zelinskyy and Canada’s Parliament and Prime Minister: If you don’t want people thinking you’re anti-Semites, do a background check to make sure you’re not giving a standing ovation to a former Nazi soldier.<a href="https://t.co/mTqeoPtk4k">https://t.co/mTqeoPtk4k</a>
&mdash; Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1706336819112001663?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rota later <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66908958" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologized</a>, saying, &#8220;In my remarks following the address of the president of Ukraine, I recognized an individual in the gallery. I have subsequently become aware of more information which causes me to regret my decision to do so. &#8230; No one, including fellow parliamentarians and the Ukraine delegation, was aware of my intention or of my remarks before I delivered them. This initiative was entirely my own, the individual in question being from my riding [district] and having been brought to my attention.”
&#8220;I particularly want to extend my deepest apologies to Jewish communities in Canada and around the world. I accept full responsibility for my actions,” he added.
“Obviously it’s extremely upsetting that this happened,” Trudeau commented. “The speaker has acknowledged his mistake and has apologized. This is something that is deeply embarrassing to the Parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians, I think particularly of Jewish MPs and all members of the Jewish community across the country, celebrating, commemorating Yom Kippur today.”
“I think it’s going to be really important that all of us push back against Russian propaganda, Russian disinformation and continue our steadfast and unequivocal support for Ukraine as we did last week with announcing further measures to stand with Ukraine in Russia’s illegal war against it,” he declared.
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Speaking for the first time since a Ukrainian Nazi Veteran was appalled during the Zelensky speech, Justin Trudeau says “this is deeply embarrassing to the Parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians,” adding it is “extremely upsetting that this happened” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdnpoli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://t.co/6YfkGw74D5">pic.twitter.com/6YfkGw74D5</a>
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“If the prime minister is so proud of how he conducted himself; he would be on the floor in the House of Commons today answering questions instead of hiding under a rock,” opposition leader Pierre Poilievre told parliament, then turned to Rota, saying, “Mr. Speaker, Canadians are sick and tired of a prime minister who never takes responsibility for things that happen under his watch, whether it’s the record high inflation or interest rates or the doubling of housing costs or the constant international embarrassments, he always finds someone else to throw under the bus. Are you that person?”
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&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1706378414385434956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy Visits Canada

After Canada’s Parliament Cheers Nazi Veteran, ‘Upset’ Trudeau Warns Against ‘Russian Propaganda’

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A new artificial intelligence app that allows users to “chat” with over 20,000 famous historical figures is being harshly criticized for including Nazi leaders such as Adolf Hitler and other anti-Semites, as well as having them make statements that are historically inaccurate.
The app, titled, Historical Figures, launched at the beginning of January and was created by Sidhant Chadda, a 25-year-old Amazon software engineer. It uses ChatGPT’s base technology, called GPT-3, and is listed in the “education” category on Apple’s App Store.
“With this app, you can chat with deceased individuals who have made a significant impact on history from ancient rulers and philosophers to modern-day politicians and artists,” a description of the app declares, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/historical-ai-app-slammed-for-allowing-users-to-chat-with-hitler-jesus/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “Simply select the historical figure you want to chat with and start a conversation. You can learn about their life, their work, and their impact on the world in a fun and interactive way.”
Some examples of Nazi responses, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chatgpt-gpt-chat-bot-ai-hitler-historical-figures-open-rcna66531" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>, include Hitler’s chatbot saying killing Jews during World War II “was a terrible mistake.” No historical evidence exists that Hitler made such a statement.
Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust, states in a chat that he thought the Holocaust was a tragedy. He <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/reinhard-heydrich-in-depth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">never expressed</a> such a view.
In one chat with Heinrich Himmler, the chief of Nazi Germany’s SS, Himmler denies any responsibility for the Holocaust, also <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/heinrich-himmler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inaccurate</a>.  Joseph Goebbels, another vicious anti-Semite, <a href="https://twitter.com/AllHailPyro/status/1615764730504675346">stated</a> during one chat that “anti-Semitism was wrong.”
“Are neo-Nazis going to be attracted to this site so they can go and have a dialogue with Adolf Hitler?” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the director of global social action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, asked. He noted that famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal was on the app along with the infamous Nazis, adding, “Don’t mix and match with the leaders who introduced us to a whole new set of words like ‘genocide.’”
The Henry Ford AI chatbot includes a <a href="https://twitter.com/ZaneGTCooper/status/1615577714836275200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1615577714836275200%7Ctwgr%5E0aed7ddb50c620594c2e3739a1084eb4548d2297%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indy100.com%2Fscience-tech%2Fhistorical-figures-ai-chat-hitler-jesus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denial</a> of his documented anti-Semitism.
Chadda made an attempt to justify some of the responses on the app, saying, “People expect these historical figures to be truthful, but in reality, people are not always 100% honest. The politician is going to give a political answer in response, and that can create problems, but I think that’s more honest from the historical perspective.”
“If I detect that the model’s output is racist, sexist, or hateful in content, I actually omit the response entirely,” he added.

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AI App That Lets Users Talk To Historical Figures Slammed For Misrepresenting Hitler, Nazis

AI App That Lets Users Talk To Historical Figures Slammed For Misrepresenting Nazis

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A 97-year-old woman who worked at a Nazi concentration camp was convicted on Monday after undergoing a trial that lasted longer than a year. 
Between 1943 and 1945, when Irmgard Furchner was 18 and 19 years old, she <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/20/nazi-camp-secretary-irmgard-furchner-stutthof-germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worked</a> as a secretary for Paul-Werner Hoppe, the Stutthof concentration camp&#8217;s commandant. Because of her age at the time, she was put on trial in a juvenile court. 
Furchner was given a two-year suspended jail sentence after being found to be an accessory to the murder of 10,505 prisoners and the attempted murder of five other people.
“The promotion of these acts by the accused took place through the completion of paperwork” in the camp commander&#8217;s office, a court statement reportedly <a href="https://apnews.com/article/prisons-dceae7a28dfdee9a869bd8fe8a75c91a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “This activity was necessary for the organization of the camp and the execution of the cruel, systematic acts of killing.”
By January 1942, Stutthof was a typical concentration camp. More than 60,000 people ultimately <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/stutthof" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> there. They were either killed in gas chambers or by lethal injections, and many died from typhus epidemics.
Furchner’s trial was held in northern Germany in the town of Itzehoe. In September last year, the proceedings were delayed because she had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/30/former-nazi-concentration-camp-secretary-96-faces-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fled</a> from her nursing home. She didn’t appear in court and was later taken into custody by law enforcement and given an electronic tag. 
The trial <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/20/nazi-camp-secretary-irmgard-furchner-stutthof-germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> testimony from 30 survivors, as well as family members of Stutthof camp prisoners. Historians said Furchner was fully aware of prisoners being tortured and killed.
The judge, along with court authorities, went to the camp’s site and saw where Furchner would have sat and worked at the time. They found that she fully understood what was happening to people at the camp and therefore was an active participant in the atrocities.   
Furchner&#8217;s role “was necessary for the organization of the camp and the implementation of these cruel and systematic killing acts,” the court <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-nazi-camp-secretary-97-found-guilty-in-what-could-be-final-holocaust-trial-11671541582" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
She said she was sorry for what had happened and had regrets about working at the Stutthuf camp in a closing remark.
“In view of Furchner’s recent statement to the court that she ‘regretted everything,’ we were concerned that the court might accept her defense attorney’s plea for an acquittal,” Efraim Zuroff, the leading Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/prisons-dceae7a28dfdee9a869bd8fe8a75c91a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. “Yet given her claim that she had no knowledge of the murders being committed in the camp, her regret was far from convincing.”

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Fox News host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/maybe-its-the-sexy-glasses-tucker-carlson-mocks-oscar-winner-over-her-claim-she-has-nightmares-about-him/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> blasted a California plan to explore both <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/newsoms-reparations-task-force-kicks-around-giving-223000-to-black-californians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reparations for slavery</a> and a process by which to determine who qualified to receive them, arguing that the only way to really know who should get those payments was to implement &#8220;Nazi race science.&#8221;
Carlson argued during his Wednesday broadcast that because so much time had passed since the end of slavery in the United States — and since so many generations of children had been born since — that ancestral records coupled with DNA tests would likely be required to &#8220;prove&#8221; that individuals were, in fact, the descendants of slaves.
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&mdash; Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) <a href="https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1603196222722158593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) created a task force in 2020 to determine how such restitution payments might be made, and the current debate is over how to determine who might be eligible to receive them.
&#8220;The first-in-the-nation task force previously voted to limit reparations to Black California residents whose ancestors were living in the United States in the 19th century. This week, the group will talk about whether there could be additional eligibility requirements and what time frame reparations could hinge on,&#8221; The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-12-14/california-reparations-task-force-to-talk-eligibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;It&#8217;s been a long time — it&#8217;s been more than 150 years since slavery,&#8221; Carlson responded, pointing out the fact that in the time since, many generations of children had been born — and that included a number of generations of mixed-race children as well.
&#8220;So at this point, there are plenty of white people in America who are descended from slaves, and there are plenty of black people in America who are descended from slave owners,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;So how do you know who qualifies for government reparations? Well of course there is only one way to find out: that is old-fashioned Nazi race science. Nazi race science.&#8221;
Carlson went on to explain that the only way to truly nail down which Americans were descended from slaves was with comprehensive DNA testing that would allow the government to &#8220;certify&#8221; who is and who isn’t entitled to receive reparations.
&#8220;Do we really want to go there? Do we really want to do that? Amazingly, liberals really do,&#8221; Carlson concluded.

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‘Do We Really Want To Go There?’: Tucker Blasts Reparations Plan That Would Require ‘Nazi Race Science’

Tucker Blasts Reparations Plan That Would Require 'Nazi Race Science'

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Daily Wire co-founder and author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/ben-shapiro">Ben Shapiro</a> discussed how centralized power and other factors are real threats to liberal democracies, citing historical collapses during a long-ranging podcast with host Lex Fridman, released on Monday.
Shapiro emphasized the threat when Fridman asked about lessons we could learn from Adolf Hitler taking power in the 20th century.
&#8220;The first thing I think people ought to recognize about Hitler taking power is that the power had been centralized in the government before Hitler took it,&#8221; the &#8220;Right Side of History&#8221; author outlined.
&#8220;So if you actually look at the history of Nazi Germany, the Weimar Republic effectively collapsed, the power had been centralized in the chancellory, and really under Hindenburg for a couple of years before that,&#8221; Shapiro, 38, explained. &#8220;So it was only a matter of time until someone who was bad grabbed the power.&#8221;
&#8220;The struggle between the Reds and the Browns in pre-Nazi Germany led to this kind of up-spiraling of radical sentiment that allowed Hitler in through the front door, not through the back door. He was elected,&#8221; the podcast host said.
Shapiro added that &#8220;there&#8217;s no question&#8221; the Communists could have taken power at the time, noting that such a takeover could have led to a different sort of atrocity. &#8220;Obviously the Communists in Soviet Russia at exactly this time were committing the Holodomor,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;There were very few good guys in terms of good parties — the moderate parties were being dragged by the radicals into alliance with them to prevent the worst case scenario from the other guy,&#8221; the conservative explained.
“It really does speak to how does a democracy break down,&#8221; Shapiro asserted. &#8220;I mean the 20s Weimar Republic, which was a very liberal democracy, how does a liberal democracy break down into complete Fascism and then into genocide?&#8221;
Franz von Papen, the second-to-last Chancellor of the Republic before Hitler, was &#8220;stumping for Hitler&#8221; even though he opposed him, Shapiro explained. &#8220;Papen thought that Hitler was a radical and a nut job, but he also thought that Hitler, being a buffoon as he saw it, was going to essentially be usable by the right forces in order to &#8230; prevent the Communists from taking power.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to kind of fall into the rock&#8217;em sock&#8217;em robots that eventually could, theoretically, allow you to support somebody who&#8217;s truly frightening and hideous in order to stop somebody who you think is more frightening and hideous,&#8221; he asserted.
&#8220;You see this kind of language, by the way, now predominating almost all over the Western world: &#8216;My political enemy is an enemy of democracy, my political enemy is going to end the Republic, my political enemy is going to be the person who destroys the country we live in, and so that person has to be stopped by any means necessary. And that&#8217;s dangerous stuff,&#8221; the author warned.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>: &quot;The best protection against evil is recognizing that it lies in every human&#8230;The polarization of politics&#8230;makes it very easy to&#8230;theoretically&#8230;support someone who is truly frightening and hideous in order to stop someone who is more frightening and hideous.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/1l7inRhVmJ">pic.twitter.com/1l7inRhVmJ</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1589763073573015554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Ben Shapiro Discusses How Democracies Collapse: Hitler Was Let In ‘Through The Front Door’

Ben Shapiro Talks Quick Collapse Of Democracy, Explains How Hitler Was Let In ‘Through The Front Door’ 

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clyburn-compares-america-to-1930s-germany-in-latest-example-of-democrats-alarmist-rhetoric">James Clyburn</a> (D-SC) said during an interview on Sunday that those who do not vote against so-called &#8220;election deniers&#8221; are Nazis.
Clyburn made the remarks during an interview on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; with host Shannon Bream when asked about remarks that he made last week.
&#8220;This is what happens in a country that follows what happened in Germany in the early &#8217;30s,&#8221; Clyburn said last week. &#8220;This country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany when it was the greatest democracy going, elected a chancellor who then co-opted their media, and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on in this country. That is what will lead to the destruction of this democracy.&#8221;
After Bream played the clip, she said to Clyburn, &#8220;Congressman, you&#8217;ve repeatedly made comments about Hitler, about Nazism, about Germany in the 1930s in recent years. You&#8217;ve gotten a lot of pushback from that from Jewish organizations and others who say it belittles the suffering of the Holocaust, of the millions who were lost.&#8221;
After a brief back-and-forth, Bream asked, &#8220;Are voters, though, out there listening to this message to infer from what you&#8217;re saying that if they don&#8217;t vote for Democrats in this election, that they are somehow supporting something akin to the rise of Hitler?&#8221;
&#8220;No, if they don&#8217;t vote against election deniers, if they don&#8217;t vote against liars, people who will lie, know full well they&#8217;re lying, we all know they are lying,&#8221; Clyburn responded. &#8220;This was cleanest election in the history of the country, Donald Trump&#8217;s own appointee said it was the cleanest in the history of the country. So, if they are lying, they&#8217;re denying, they&#8217;re trying to delete, they&#8217;re trying to nullify our votes, vote against that foolishness.&#8221;
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JIM CLYBURN: &quot;What I see here are parallels to what the history was in this world back in the 1930s in Germany.&quot;
&quot;If [voters] don&#39;t vote for Democrats&#8230;they are somehow supporting something akin to Hitler?&quot;
CLYBURN: &quot;If they don’t vote against [election] deniers&quot; <a href="https://t.co/nGAOagvTbT">pic.twitter.com/nGAOagvTbT</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1589283537332625411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>SHANNON BREAM, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Joining me now, South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the House.
Congressman, welcome back to &#8220;FOX News Sunday&#8221;.
REP. JAMES CLYBURN (D-SC): Thank you very much for having me back.
BREAM: I want to start here with some comments you made just a couple of days ago.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CLYBURN: This is what happens in a country that follows what happened in Germany in the early &#8217;30s. This country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany when it was the greatest democracy going, elected a chancellor who then co-opted their media, and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on in this country. That is what will lead to the destruction of this democracy.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BREAM: Congressman, you&#8217;ve repeatedly made comments about Hitler, about Nazism, about Germany in the 1930s in recent years. You&#8217;ve gotten a lot of pushback from that from Jewish organizations and others who say it belittles the suffering of the Holocaust, of the millions who were lost.
Your response?
CLYBURN: I&#8217;ve talked to many Jews. We have many Jews in my congressional district, and they are very &#8212; supporters of mine. They note that this is a stuff that causes those kinds of deterioration in democracy. This is not anything about whether &#8212; how difficult it was, I talk about slavery and how difficult it was.
But that &#8212; to discuss the facts of what&#8217;s going on here, election deniers setting up positions (ph) by which little (ph) committees by governors can overturn the results of election, to call the press the enemy of the people, to co-op evangelicals &#8212; and I grew up in a Christian faith, in a parsonage, born and raised in a parsonage.
I know a whole lot about religion, and I know there&#8217;s always an attempt to co-op religions and that is going on here.
BREAM: OK, Congressman &#8212;
CLYBURN: And people want to deny it, that&#8217;s fine.
BREAM: OK, but &#8212;
CLYBURN: But the facts are very clear. I studied history all of my life.
BREAM: OK.
CLYBURN: I taught history and I&#8217;m telling you what I see here are parallels to what the history was &#8212;
BREAM: OK.
CLYBURN: &#8212; in this world back in the 1930s &#8212;
BREAM: So, Congressman, then &#8212;
CLYBURN: &#8212; in Germany, in Italy.
BREAM: Okay. Are voters, though, out there listening to this message to infer from what you&#8217;re saying that if they don&#8217;t vote for Democrats in this election, that they are somehow supporting something akin to the rise of Hitler?
CLYBURN: No, if they don&#8217;t vote against election deniers, if they don&#8217;t vote against liars, people who will lie, know full well they&#8217;re lying, we all know they are lying.
This was cleanest election in the history of the country, Donald Trump&#8217;s own appointee said it was the cleanest in the history of the country.
So, if they are lying, they&#8217;re denying, they&#8217;re trying to delete, they&#8217;re trying to nullify our votes, vote against that foolishness.
BREAM: Okay. So, Congressman, to look back on some conversations about election deniers, we&#8217;ve talked about on the show that Democrats have spent more than $40 million making sure that some of those people got through primary &#8212; GOP primaries so that they then could face off in the general election. Do Democrats bear some responsibility for putting those people now on the ballot?
CLYBURN: No, we didn&#8217;t put them up. Those people &#8212;
(CROSSTALK)
BREAM: But you spent millions to get them there.
CLYBURN: I&#8217;m sorry?
BREAM: But you spent millions to get many of them there, where they are in the general election ballot.
CLYBURN: Well, you know, I read about that. I believe that you should always try to best position yourself to win in the general election. I&#8217;m not a proponent of that process. I understand it takes place on both sides. But I&#8217;m just not a proponent of it, but I can understand it.
BREAM: OK. So, I want to play a little bit more language over the last week from Democrats about what is at stake in this election.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BARACK OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT: Democracy as we know it may not survive in Arizona, that&#8217;s not an exaggeration. That is a fact.
JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: But, there is something else at stake, democracy itself.
CLYBURN: But losing this democracy could very well be the end of the world.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BREAM: OK. So, were you asking voters to set aside what they feel about the economy?
Because &#8220;The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s&#8221; Kimberley Strassel has this piece: Voters have sat through this apocalyptic movie many times now, and know its anticlimactic ending. Besides they&#8217;re busy searching for spare change to cover their rising grocery bills.
So, set aside economy and worries about crime which are at the top of all of voter polls about what they&#8217;re worried about, and instead vote for you where the world is ending?
CLYBURN: Nobody is saying the world is ending. The world did not end &#8212;
(CROSSTALK)
BREAM: You did say there, though, that it could be the end of the world.
CLYBURN: No, democracy will be ending. The world will continue to exist. The world was here before Hitler and the world was here after Hitler. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re saying.
No, the world will not end. The kind of world we have, the kind of country we have. We&#8217;ve got to decide how do we want to exist in this world, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about.
This hyperbole is not part of what we&#8217;re saying here. We&#8217;re talking about what kind of country we have and what kind of world we have.
BREAM: OK. Congressman, just to be clear, though, I want to read your quote. It says: But losing this democracy could very well be the end of the world. That&#8217;s a direct quote from you.
CLYBURN: End of the world, come on.
(CROSSTALK)
BREAM: Well, a lot of voters feel that way, when you say that. They think &#8212; they have the same reaction.
CLYBURN: Well, if that&#8217;s a quote from me, it &#8212; I misspoke. It won&#8217;t end the world.
BREAM: OK.
CLYBURN: No, I have no idea &#8212;
(CROSSTALK)
BREAM: OK. Well, that&#8217;s good news for everyone heading to the ballot boxes on Tuesday. Finally &#8212;
CLYBURN: But having (AUDIO GAP) one to teach history, we live in worlds that we do not like. My forbearers lived through slavery. They did not like that existence for 250 years. But it was not the end of the world, it may be the end the world as they would have it, but it will not end the world.
BREAM: All right. Well, we are reassured to hear you say that, sir. We thank you for making time for us, Congressman Clyburn. Always good to talk with you.
CLYBURN: Thank you very much for having me.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clyburn-compares-america-to-1930s-germany-in-latest-example-of-democrats-alarmist-rhetoric">Clyburn Compares America To 1930’s Germany In Latest Example Of Democrats’ Alarmist Rhetoric</a>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> likened Trump supporters to Nazis because they pointed in the air during a rally.
While speaking at the Texas Tribune festival in Austin, Texas, on Friday, the former first lady, secretary of state, and failed 2016 presidential candidate recounted that when she was a student, she wondered why people in the 1930s and 40s were so enthralled with Adolf Hitler. Clinton implied that a similar phenomenon was going on with Trump supporters because, like at Hitler&#8217;s rallies, people at Trump rallies raised their arms while he was speaking.
“I remember as a young student, you know, trying to figure out, how people get basically drawn in by Hitler,&#8221; Clinton <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI98TIm-r_I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;How did that happen? I’d watch newsreels and I’d see this guy standing up there ranting and raving, and people shouting and raising their arms. I thought, ‘What’s happened to these people?’”
“You saw the rally in Ohio the other night,&#8221; Clinton continued. &#8220;Trump is there ranting and raving for more than an hour, and you have these rows of young men with their arms raised. I thought, ‘What is going on?&#8217; So there is a real pressure, and I think it is fair to say we&#8217;re in a struggle between democracy and autocracy.&#8221;
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Hillary Clinton likens Trump supporters to Nazis during remarks at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin
&#8220;What’s happened to these people?&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/fWLON5d2b3">https://t.co/fWLON5d2b3</a> <a href="https://t.co/b8H6Cm4AKF">pic.twitter.com/b8H6Cm4AKF</a>
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Clinton was referring to Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Save America&#8221; Rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on September 17. Trump closed his remarks with a prepared monologue set to dramatic music. As Trump was speaking, supporters in the audience raised their arms and pointed upward with their index fingers. Some commentators claimed the move was associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory, but others said the crowd was simply showing the number one in reference to Trump&#8217;s &#8220;America First&#8221; message.
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Clinton was not the only left-wing figure to compare Trump supporters to Nazis after the rally. Washington Post columnist <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/19/trump-ohio-rally-qanon-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Rubin</a> claimed that Trump supporters pointing in the air &#8220;bore an uncanny resemblance to the infamous Nazi salute.&#8221; Other left-wingers, including feminist author <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1571921766393462789?s=20&amp;t=rTMfiSLBJheyqP7P7A8kHA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joyce Carol Oates</a>, Harvard professor emeritus <a href="https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1571503155204034561?s=20&amp;t=EsC-oen_6bwQvasIi0BNCQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laurence Tribe</a>, retired Army General and MSNBC contributor <a href="https://twitter.com/mccaffreyr3/status/1571323249870671874?s=20&amp;t=v3NKX2ThGlowrASVFIz54Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barry McCaffrey</a>, and the left-wing legal organization <a href="https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/1571475307990863872" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Citizens for Ethics</a> all compared the rally attendees to Nazi supporters on Twitter.
“As usual, the media is working hand in hand with the Democrats weeks before an election,” Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich said in a statement to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/24/hillary-clinton-likens-trump-supporters-to-nazis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>. “It seems like perpetual-failed-candidate Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables has run stale, not unlike herself. It’s pathetic, it’s divisive, and it is further cementing her legacy of cringe.”
Clinton infamously labeled Trump supporters &#8220;deplorables&#8221; during the 2016 election. “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables,’” Clinton said at the time. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it.”
Clinton&#8217;s rhetoric is also similar to President Joe Biden&#8217;s recent line of attack against so-called &#8220;MAGA Republicans.&#8221;
At a closed-door event with supporters in Rockville, Maryland, in August, Biden said that the ideology of Trump and his supporters borders on fascism. “What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of extreme MAGA philosophy,” Biden said. “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/25/biden-trump-philosophy-semi-fascism-00053831" target="_blank" rel="noopener">semi-fascism</a>.”

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A video of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/justin-bieber">Justin Bieber</a> marching across the stage at his recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">show</a> has some viewers accusing him of goose-stepping and giving the crowd a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/adolf-hitler">Heil Hitler</a> salute.
The 28-year-old pop star was performing in Finland when the alleged incident took place. A Jewish reporter accused Bieber of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nazis">Nazi</a> motions, posting a video of the marching to Twitter along with his assessment. 
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Justin Bieber, who&#39;s apparently still a thing, decided to goose-step and do a sieg Heil at a concert in Finland yesterday.
The Conference of European Rabbis denounced his actions and demands an explanation. 
Will he repeat the performance when he comes to Israel this fall? <a href="https://t.co/CtIoIgZl7T">pic.twitter.com/CtIoIgZl7T</a>
&mdash; Judah Ari Gross (@JudahAriGross) <a href="https://twitter.com/JudahAriGross/status/1557316790199394304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Justin Bieber, who&#8217;s apparently still a thing, decided to goose-step and do a sieg Heil at a concert in Finland yesterday,” Judah Ari Gross wrote in the video caption. “The Conference of European Rabbis denounced his actions and demands an explanation. Will he repeat the performance when he comes to Israel this fall?”
“The famous singer slapped the faces of millions of Jews across the world when he chose to perform the ‘sieg heil’ movement that symbolizes identification with Nazi party values,” Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, agreed, per <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-promoters-reject-rabbis-claim-justin-bieber-performed-nazi-salute-on-stage/">The Times of Israel</a>.
“It is unthinkable that a singer with tens of millions of fans and followers around the world allows himself to adopt such conduct on European soil soaked with the blood of millions of Jews and other minorities, who were brutally murdered by the Nazi oppressor,” Goldschmidt continued.
Bieber is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on October 13.
Even as the video sparked outrage, fans and casual observers alike rushed to the singer’s defense. 
“That&#8217;s objectively not a sieg Heil or a goose-step. Are you really this desperate to find a reason to be offended by something?” The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1557367970829066240">wrote</a> in reply.
“I can&#8217;t believe you&#8217;re making me defend Justin Bieber,” Lauren Chen <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1557429587960860672">said</a>.
“The supply of antisemitism is not meeting demand,” a third person <a href="https://twitter.com/LuckyTheDonkey_/status/1557335715415035904">agreed</a>.
Some viewers did think the marching was suspect, however. “As someone who play tennis with a Jewish person once a month I find this so gross and heartbreaking to see. Why are we still doing these things in 2022 and why won&#8217;t these hate crimes have to stop?” someone else <a href="https://twitter.com/truckdriverpleb/status/1557391032202960899">replied</a>.
Times of Israel reported that Bieber had been filmed at other concerts marching across the stage the same way in a move called a “stomp,” which is an inside joke between him and his fans. 
The Israeli company promoting the singer’s upcoming show insists the moves were not Nazi related.
“These are dance moves…Dance moves are meant to entertain. Not everything has to do with the Jewish people, with all the love we have for ourselves,” a representative of Nidar Oz Communications said.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s staffer tweeted a meme Sunday of a super-imposed picture of the president standing in front of what resembles the Reichsadler Eagle symbol used by Germany&#8217;s Nazi Party.
Andrew Bates, deputy press secretary for the White House, tweeted on Sunday a meme that altered the movie poster of Christopher Nolan&#8217;s &#8220;The Dark Knight Rises,&#8221; the final installment of The Dark Knight Trilogy.
&#8220;THE DARK BRANDON RISES,&#8221; the meme reads with Biden standing in front of a flaming Nazi Germany eagle symbol replacing the bat symbol, wearing a black suit, striped tie, and an eye patch.
&#8220;THE MALARKEY WILL END,&#8221; the tagline reads on the altered image.
Bates replied to a quote tweet from an original post of a separate Biden meme with laser eyes that read, &#8220;Your malarkey has been going on for long enough, kiddo.&#8221;
&#8220;Dark Brandon is crushing it,&#8221; Bates tweeted.
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Biden&#8217;s communications army has attempted to make the &#8220;Dark Brandon&#8221; trend happen since March in response to America First Conservatives, who initially started using the phrase &#8220;Dark MAGA.&#8221;
One could argue that the symbol looks closer to the classic emblem for the Ford Thunderbird, which has straight edges on the wings rather than the curved imperial eagle wings. However, Twitter users took the opportunity to slam the tweet and the &#8220;Dark Brandon&#8221; trend.
Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Florida&#8217;s Gov. Ron DeSantis, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1556659712405413894">asked</a>, &#8220;Why would a White House Deputy Press Secretary post a meme of his boss with a Nazi symbol in the background?&#8221;
Tim Murtaugh, former communications director for President Trump, compared the <a href="https://twitter.com/TimMurtaugh/status/1556640195751157762">tweet</a> with previous hits accusing on the 45th president that accused him of using neo-Nazi symbolism.
&#8220;In 2020, the Trump campaign faced a week of stories and fact checks about a t-shirt with an eagle on it,&#8221; Murtaugh said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s see if a tweet from an official Biden White House account gets the same treatment.&#8221;
Cyd Zeigler, a sports commentator and co-founder of Outsports and the National Gay Flag Football League, alluded to the fact he has lost hope for the Biden Administration since the president took office last year.
&#8220;The White House has lost its collective mind,&#8221; Zeigler <a href="https://twitter.com/CydZeigler/status/1556765385424338944">said</a>. &#8220;Now Nazi imagery for the Biden Administration. I had such high hopes 18 months ago. Now this November they have no one to blame but themselves …&#8221;
Alec Sears, a digital staffer at the Republican National Committee, said the &#8220;Dark Brandon&#8221; expression began as Chinese propaganda.
&#8220;&#8230; and then the White House co-opted it using Nazi Eagle imagery &#8230;&#8221; Sears <a href="https://twitter.com/alec_sears/status/1556637212300779520">tweeted</a>. &#8220;They&#8217;re not sending their best.&#8221;
&#8220;Dark Brandon&#8221; appeared to have started on Twitter back in March when anonymous Twitter accounts sought to create an &#8220;edgy&#8221; version of the president, according to an online meme <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dark-brandon">database</a>.
Daily Wire CEO and Emeritus Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro slammed the trend on <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1556502020399431683?s=20&amp;t=DEbYffeZEfhrfzHNGh6Tpw">Twitter</a>.
&#8220;You can try to Dark Brandon meme your way out of sub-40 approval ratings all you want, but throwing hundreds of billions at green boondoggles in the middle of an inflationary spiral isn&#8217;t going to turn things around,&#8221; Shapiro tweeted.
&#8220;That said, the imagery of a dotard who can barely form words from his face-hole actually being a laser-eyed deathlord is pretty hilarious,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;THE DARK BRANDON RISES&#8221; supposedly hits theaters Nov. 8

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