Hurwitz, a former speechwriter for Barack and Michelle Obama, told the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly that the Jewish 'bet' on Holocaust education had backfired as a safeguard against antisemitism. The backlash was swift, with critics on social media accusing her of saying 'it was a mistake to teach Americans that genocide is bad'
French prosecutors have launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s Grok AI after it published alleged antisemitic and Holocaust denial comments, following complaints filed by human rights groups.
"One of the ways in which the Gaza genocide is worse than... even the Holocaust – is that you didn’t have... Nazis mocking the genocide after it was over," Hasan wrote.
South African presenter Juliet Newell faced major backlash after confronting an interviewee whose organization compared the Gaza War with the Holocaust.
90-year-old Holocaust survivor Hannah Gofrit spoke at a Knesset committee last week to cry out for the hostages to be released. 'Would anyone sitting around that table have saved me? Ever since October 7, I have been in doubt,' she tells Haaretz
'Slam Frank,' which debuts next month Off-Broadway, is already causing a storm for its portrayal of the author of the famous Holocaust diary. But it's more than just a jab at the woke
After both the Polish prime minister and his foreign minister invoked the national experience of World War II in reference to 'the hunger and the death of mothers and children,' Israel accused Poland of dishonoring Holocaust victims
Legendary Broadway actor Mandy Patinkin compared Gaza with the Holocaust. And yet, we must remember that the Holocaust was orders of magnitude more horrific than even this senseless slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinians
Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, launched a tidal wave of Holocaust memes and far-right antisemitism, and called itself 'MechaHitler,' just days after its training data was 'de-woked.' Some of the posts were later deleted
Chana Yablonka, a historian and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, looks at the country and laments the loss of mutual responsibility on which she was raised. 'Dreams about what happens to the hostages when the IDF enters Gaza wake me up at night'
As both sides in the Gaza war rush to claim Nazi comparisons, the real survivors of the Holocaust are still with us – elderly, often impoverished and watching as their trauma becomes everyone's favorite metaphor
'If people remember me, I want them to remember the Holocaust': Survivor Eve Kugler only spoke of what she went through decades after the Holocaust, eventually becoming a well-known public figure, and died on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day
Of those Holocaust survivors who receive long-term care allowances, over 30 percent also receive old-age pensions with additional income supplements, which are provided due to low incomes to ensure a minimal standard of living
On a tour of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, chef Alon Shaya was mesmerized by a family's cookbook. An initial offer to cook the recipes for Steven, the family's surviving son, evolved into events that bring the Fenves family's recipes across the U.S. while raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Holocaust museum
It is difficult to imagine more different circumstances of Jewish death than these. So why did the friends and family of fallen soldiers since October 7 link the deaths of their loved ones with the deaths of Jews killed in the Holocaust?
The Beth Elieser nursing home in northern Israel is a unique space where evangelical Germans join a long-standing tradition of caring for Holocaust survivors as a way of atoning for the sins of the Nazis and expressing love for the Jewish people
Sixty years after the Mossad assassinated Herberts Cukurs, Latvian prosecutors ruled evidence – including testimonies from Holocaust survivors – was insufficient for prosecution. An Israeli-Latvian historian said that Latvian extremists saw an opportunity and revealed Israel had ignored requests for testimonies