(CNN) — A former high school principal in Florida, who was fired last year after appearing to cast doubt on the historical truth of the Holocaust, has been rehired in a new position.
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Remarkable nonsense about ‘the Holocaust’
A principal in Florida said he couldn’t confirm the Holocaust was a ‘factual’ event. The school district just fired him
(CNN) — A former high school principal in Boca Raton, Florida, was fired on Wednesday as a result of emails he sent to a student’s parent in April 2018 that appeared to cast doubt on the historical truth of the Holocaust.
Continue readingA high school principal is reassigned after writing that he couldn’t say the Holocaust was ‘a factual, historical event’
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Spanish River High’s principal refused to call the Holocaust a fact
A mother pushed for a year to address what she described as a school leader’s failure to separate truth from myth.
Continue readingGerman neo-Nazi, 89, on the lam after failing to appear for jail term
BERLIN — A Holocaust survivors’ group is urging German authorities to intensify their search for a notorious neo-Nazi who did not show up for her prison sentence.
It’s Jew vs. Jew as Congress weighs a new definition for anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jewish and pro-Israel leaders exchanged heated remarks at a congressional hearing on how to define anti-Semitism.
Civil society must step up to counter hate
- Canada needs a professional organization to track, document and counter right-wing extremism and racist groups.
Wife of Putin aide shocks with Holocaust-themed skating routine
Moscow (AFP) – The wife of President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman faced a storm of criticism on Monday for performing a Holocaust-themed ice-dancing routine with striped costumes based on concentration camp uniforms.
Russian Holocaust ice-skating routine slammed as ‘unbelievably tasteless’
(CNN)A Holocaust-themed ice skating routine on a Russian reality television show, involving the wife of a high-level aide to President Vladimir Putin, has sparked outrage around the world. The act was based on the award-winning 1997 Italian film, “Life is Beautiful,” which tells the story of a Jewish father who tries to hide his son from the horrors of the Holocaust through humor and games. In the routine, set to Israeli singer Noa’s “Beautiful That Way” from the film’s soundtrack, former Olympic ice skater Tatiana Navka and her dance partner Andrei Burkovsky dance in the striped pajamas and yellow six-pointed stars which Jewish victims of Nazi concentration camps were forced to wear. Navka married President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov in a large ceremony in August 2015.
NPR’s Hinojosa: The phrase ‘illegal immigrant’ is comparable to the Holocaust
Saturday, Maria Hinojosa, anchor and executive producer of NPR’s “Latino USA,” responded on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” to Donald Trump surrogate Steve Cortes saying “illegal immigrants” by comparing the phrase to the Holocaust Jews being labeled as “illegal people.”