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EBay Listen Up: Who Do You Stand With: The Victims of Genocide or Those Who Celebrate Its Perpetrators?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 12.24.2009 | Living


Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Without a doubt, eBay occupies prime virtual real estate in our digital malls. Out in the real world, malls do not allow the KKK and neo-Nazis to rent space and pedal hate.

Pre-Genocidal Hate: How the Internet Supersized a Medieval Big Lie

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 12.21.2009 | World


Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Today, old hatreds are being repackaged and supersized in a way that would have made Josef Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Hate, drool with envy.

GOP Purity Test Echoes Berlin in 1933

Mike Papantonio | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics


Mike Papantonio

Finally, Republicans have memorialized their flat-earth style of politics by demanding that their candidates stop thinking and swear a purity oath. Regardless of whether it's dumb luck at work here, Obama should be grateful.

The Death Penalty as Punishment for Being Gay - Apparently Uganda Doesn't Know it's 2009

Jenny Block | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics


Jenny Block

In television and film they call it jumping the shark. In real life we generally call it ridiculous. In this case the only word is appalling. On second thought, disgusting fits too.

John Demjanjuk Trial Day Canceled Due To Illness

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 12.02.2009 | World


MUNICH — The trial of John Demjanjuk on charges of accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews as a death camp guard was called off for the day Wedne...

Irrational Exuberance in Anti-Obama Hatred

Aaron Keyak | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics


Aaron Keyak

The use of swastikas, photos of dead Holocaust victims, and anti-Semitic epithets should have no place in any event or venue sponsored or promoted on either side of the partisan divide.

John Demjanjuk: 'The Last Great Nazi Trial'

Macleans | Katie Engelhart | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


It is being touted as the last great Nazi trial. In November, John Demjanjuk--now first on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted war crim...

Remembering Kristallnacht in Berlin: The Story of Hans Riess

Stefan Sirucek | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Stefan Sirucek

The reason November 9 -- the day the Berlin Wall fell -- is not a national holiday in Germany, is that it also marks a much darker anniversary: Kristallnacht, the so-called "Night of Broken Glass."

Heinrich Boere, Nazi Hit Man, Goes On Trial In Germany

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 10.28.2009 | World


BERLIN — Heinrich Boere has admitted to gunning down three men as part of a Waffen SS death squad – civilians killed in retribution for pa...

Nazi Garden Gnomes Posed By German Artist Ottmar Hoerl

Posted 10.14.2009 | World


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Mussolini And MI5: Documents Reveal Italy's Fascist Dictator Was Once British Agent

The Guardian | Tom Kington | Posted 10.14.2009 | World


Archived documents have revealed that Mussolini got his start in politics in 1917 with the help of a £100 weekly wage from MI5. For the British in...

Racial Healing: Conquering the "Legalized Lies" of Racism

Zahra Khan | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living


Zahra Khan

Like a torch that lights the way for many lifeboats seeking shore, Obama's "glow" helps bring people of color home.

New Republic Editor Evokes Fringe Email "Clinical Narcissism" Smear

Morgan Warners | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media


Morgan Warners

A famously hawkish supporter of Israel, New Republic editor Marty Peretz's accusations about the president mimic the message of a fringe ring-wing email that I got my hands on.

UPDATED APOLOGY FROM CONGRESSMAN--HAVE WE NO SHAME? DEBASING THE HOLOCAUST FOR ANOTHER TEN SECONDS OF MEDIA COVERAGE

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Everyone knows that genocide means mass murder and that the Holocaust should be restricted to the mass murder of 6 million Jews during World War II. Abuse of these terms is inexcusable.

A New Year's Resolution

Larry Gellman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living


Larry Gellman

This Yom Kippur there is reason for concern. The politics of rumor, innuendo, and lies -- sinat chinam -- is on the rise in our community and it hurts us all.

Gunmaker Gaston Glock: Shell Companies, Nazis, and Murder

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business


Josh Sugarmann

Handgun manufacturer Glock finds itself and its one-time employees mired in a web of alleged criminal activity that includes money skimming, illegal campaign contributions, and even murder.

The Silence of the Republicans

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics


Lincoln Mitchell

A clear line can be drawn from the red-baiting and Muslim-baiting of Obama during the campaign to the birther movement and the accusation that the president was a Nazi to Joe Wilson's behavior.

Friday Talking Points [90] -- Obama To Switch Parties

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.

Germany's Far Right Uses Internet To Spread Propoganda

Deutsche Welle | Posted 09.14.2009 | World


The number of right-wing extremist websites in Germany is rising, with a group charged with youth protection warning that the internet has become the ...

Bullies Delight in Town Hall and Center

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics


Carol Smaldino

We have witnessed a spate of violent bullying and psychological assault, moods of hostility and derision which have stooped to levels that defy any clear intention to act for the greater good.

Josef Scheungraber, Ex-German Officer, Found Guilty Of Heinous Italian WWII Killings

AP | DAVID RISING and MARIA MARQUART | Posted 09.11.2009 | World


MUNICH — Gino Massetti was only 15 when Nazi troops rounded him up with 10 other Italian civilians and forced them into a barn in Tuscany before...

Injecting 'Nazi' Into Debate Is Bad for the Health of America's Democracy'

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics


Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Rabbi Marvin Hier: "We demean ourselves and everything that America stands for when we compare either Democrats or Republicans to the Nazi Third Reich."

Are Obama-Hitler Comparisons Okay?

David A. Harris | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics


David A. Harris

These days the G.O.P. base has gone all-in when it comes to Hitler references and calling our president a Nazi. So when is the Republican Party going to formally say "enough is enough"?

German Third Reich-Style Training Center Planned By Pro-Hitler Party

The Independent | Allan Hall | Posted 08.30.2009 | World


Allan Hall | The Independent Germany's far-right National Democratic party (NPD) has triggered outrage with plans for a Third Reich-style "training c...

Nazi Gnome Sparks Controversy, Investigation Of Artist

Huffington Post | Posted 08.17.2009 | World


German prosecutors are investigating the legality of a garden gnome sculpture that recently went on display in a Nuremberg art gallery that is quite c...