Whenever Simon Wiesenthal, the late great Nazi hunter and iconic human rights advocate, would speak to college students, inevitably this question would be posed: Could the Holocaust happen again? His answer: "The history of humankind is the history of crime. The only difference between the Nazi Genocide and the Inquisition...

Today it was Iraq. A series of suicide car bombers killed at least 127 people and wounded 448 in Baghdad.

Survivor Ahmed Jabbar, told the Associated Press: "What crime have we committed? Children and women were buried under debris."

Rescue workers at the scene have been climbing through twisted...

The List of post-9/11 Jihadi terrorists--almost long enough to provide a full season of "America's Most Wanted"--now includes a self-styled imam killed in a warehouse shoot-out with FBI agents in Dearborn, Michigan. Luqman Ameen Abdullah recruited followers to his Detroit mosque that offered free soup together with toxic encouragement to...

Here we go again as the United Nation pursues its unique "verdict first--trial afterwards," treatment of the State of Israel. This week, not one but two UN agencies, the UN Security Council in New York, and over in Geneva--in its 6th 'special session' on Israel in 3 years--the UN Human...

George Orwell once wrote that "political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable."

It's also the case that political liars degrade the truth and misname lawful acts as "murder." Internationally, Iranian President "Wipe Israel From the Map" Ahmadinejad has elevated the denial of the Nazi...

To update Tom Paine, these are times that try men's souls. It's been an American summer of discontents--from an uncertain economic recovery, to an acrimonious health care reform debate hotter than global warming, to ACORN's inglorious examples of how not to "community organize." And now, President Obama makes his first...

On the eve of his annual jaunt to the UN General Assembly and possible contact with President Barack Obama, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once again reiterated his denial of the Nazi Holocaust and launched a genocidal rant against the Jewish State. Flanked by the heads of Hamas and Islamic Jihad,...

So it has come to this: A country's leading newspaper publishes a lurid attack on the Jewish people, and no one less than the Foreign Minister invokes 'freedom of speech' to protect the newspaper and its hit-man reporter.

Iran? No. Sweden.

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The British do have a way with words. Here's how The Times of London puts it:

It emerged that the prognosis that Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi had a life expectancy of only three months or less was supported by an unnamed doctor who had no expertise in terminal...

Thirty years after Ayatollah Khomeini rode grassroots disaffection with the Shah into power, the majority of Iranians (unlike Iraqis) have an overwhelmingly positive attitude towards America. Not anger but disbelief echo in Tehran's streets as ordinary Iranians ask: Why is Washington silent? What has happened to America's leadership on human...

One who is merciful to those who are heartless will end up being heartless to those who are merciful.--- Jewish Thought

What a shame that the Scottish judge who released the terrorist mastermind of the PAN AM 103 mass murder never learned this teaching found both in the Jewish Book...

In a New York Times op-ed, Robert Malley, who served as President Clinton's special assistant for Arab-Israel Affairs and Palestinian Hussein Agha, in his New York Times oped "The Two State Solution Doesn't Solve Anything" suggests that the "two states may not be a true resolution if the roots...

Berliners Flock to laugh at Mel Brooks' The Producers, Rosanne Barr poses as Hitler in a pathetic stunt to get some PR, but on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, inserting Nazism into America's political narrative was and remains an outrage. The Simon...

This year Norway has reached two milestones that go to the heart of how it deals with its past history and future values. Recently, Norway began serving as chair of the International Task Force for Holocaust Education, Research and Remembrance, whose 27 international members are committed "to place political and...

In Boston and its environs -- where it was once said that "the Cabots speak only to the Lodges, and the Lodges speak only to God" -- these days distinguished Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and respected Lowell police department Sargeant James Crowley are not speaking to each other...

Nobody wants a military confrontation with Tehran's nuclearizing Mullahtocracy. It's not only the immense oil resources or it's strategic Persian Gulf position. After an election that would make Tammany Hall blush, it's now clear to the whole world that millions of Iran's citizens despise -- not embrace -- the Khameni-Ahmadinejad...

Stunned survivors of terrorist bombings often speak of an initial eerie silence -- followed by the inevitable wailing and moaning of innocent people whose lives are forever shattered for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Last weekend's deadly serial bombings of Christian Houses of...

I had never heard of Roozbeh Farahanipour before the Simon Wiesenthal Center's June 24th press conference at the Museum of Tolerance where we joined with Iranian expats urging UN intervention over the fraudulent re-election of President Ahmadinejad.

The press conference itself presented compelling but very diverse Iranian voices. There...

Simon Wiesenthal, the great Nazi Hunter and humanitarian would say to us: "I don't judge a democratic society by how many Nazis there are, but by how many anti-Nazis there are." Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust must be particularly embittered by the shooting at the sacred space of Memory in...

Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg was right to call out Fareed Zakaria, who in Newsweek magazine appears to cast Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and company as possibly driven by a Messianic vision -- not the cold, hard reality that the Mullahs in Tehran are on the verge of backing Ahmadinejad's genocidal...