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Europe's Ghosts Are Here to Stay

Carlos Carnicero Urabayen | Posted 05.21.2013 | World
Carlos Carnicero Urabayen

As the lack of trust and discontent continue growing, the citizens are turning their back on the traditional pro-European political parties and supporting others who are against the EU.

Is Richard Dawkins a Racist?

Usaama al-Azami | Posted 04.29.2013 | Religion
Usaama al-Azami

Dawkins and his fellows may remonstrate that what they object to is a belief system, freely adopted by its holders, but they are still participating in the unhealthy marginalization of a minority group.

Riga and the Waffen-SS: Face to Face with the Unspeakable

Richard Brodsky | Posted 04.09.2013 | World
Richard Brodsky

On March 15 we had visited several sites of massacres, mass murders and concentration camps where hundreds of thousands of people had been shot or otherwise killed. The next day I'm standing face-to-face with someone who might have been there.

Life Not Death: A New Museum Of Jewish History In Warsaw

Jacques Berlinerblau | Posted 04.07.2013 | Religion
Jacques Berlinerblau

President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres are expected to attend the opening of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The presence of such dignitaries attests to the tremendous significance that this endeavor holds for Jews worldwide as well as Poles.

Nazis? Again? Really?

Richard Brodsky | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics
Richard Brodsky

Most, but not all, European governments and political parties have opposed the Riga march. But as memory dims, too often the positions taken are based on the politics of the moment.

Nazism Resurgent: What Would Churchill Do?

Richard Brodsky | Posted 01.06.2013 | World
Richard Brodsky

Last month, in Strasbourg, France, a large meeting was held to formally create an organizational structure for World Without Nazism.

The New Nazis of Europe: Coming to America?

Richard Brodsky | Posted 12.03.2012 | Politics
Richard Brodsky

Golden Dawn has opened an office in Washington, and some of what we've heard from the Baltic states should give the State Department pause. Even the Timothy McVeigh's decision to bomb government buildings still resonates among some extreme right-wing groups.

Austerity Measures Are Worse at Easter

Seth Engel | Posted 07.02.2012 | World
Seth Engel

In the face of the U.S.'s two greatest crises of the century, Americans have turned to FDR and George W. Bush for solace. The Germans had once chosen Hitler for theirs. Which path will the Greeks venture down on May 6? Who can lead a country that has hit rock bottom?

The Nazi Resurgence in Europe: The Waffen-SS Marches Again

Richard Brodsky | Posted 05.13.2012 | World
Richard Brodsky

Numerous political parties and social movements have sprung up that support former and current Nazis and Nazi causes. This March 16 will see the emergence of the worst of this onto the world stage.

Boehner Receives Questionable Donation From Nazi Impersonator, Former House Candidate

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.01.2012 | Politics

Rich Iott, a 2010 Ohio candidate for the U.S. House who drew national attention for participating in Nazi reenactments where he dressed as a member of...

San Francisco Should Vote Against Arrogance, Not Circumcision

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.08.2011 | Religion
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

I've been with the Simon Wiesenthal Center since the day our human rights organization began back in 1977. An important part of my work is combating ...

Early Hitler Document On Jews Unveiled In NYC

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 08.07.2011 | World

NEW YORK — The signature under the typewritten words on yellowing sheets of nearly century-old paper is unmistakable: Adolf Hitler, with the las...

A German Law Rectifies Racism, Legitimizes Sexism

Bess Rothenberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Bess Rothenberg

Recently I learned about Article 116(2) of the 1949 German Grundgesetz -- Basic Law -- that restores citizenship to former Jewish Germans who had their citizenship revoked under National Socialism. But through a loophole, it does not include women.

Prosecuting Nazis in the 21st Century

Katie Engelhart | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Katie Engelhart

We need to decide how much decades-old justice can be served in the courtroom. Not just because of the Nazis; they'll all be dead soon. But because the way we deal with crimes of war depends on it.

The Tea Party Republicans' Malek Problem

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Chip Berlet

Fred V. Malek, is a key political strategist for the American Action Network which just spent some $7 million to unseat Congressional Democrats with v...

The Nazi Virus

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Robert Koehler

Even as we were prosecuting Nazis at Nuremberg for their barbaric behavior, including their notorious medical experiments on death camp inmates, we were, it turns out, conducting our own medical experiments on a vulnerable and unsuspecting population.

Nazi Book Reveals British Invasion Plans

Telegraph | Richard Savill | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

It reveals that postcards identifying unmistakable landmarks including Brighton Pier, and Lands End, were given to Nazi troops to identify their targe...

Evil in America? U.S. Fundamentalist Group to Burn Koran on 9/11

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Jim Luce

One need not journey to the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan to discover evil. We have our own home-grown variety of dangerous extremism here in ...

Wiesenthal Worked For Israeli Spy Agency, Book Alleges

New York Times | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

"This requires us to adjust in some small way our view of history," said Tom Segev, the author of the new book "Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends...

Mongolian Neo-Nazis On The Rise

The Guardian | Tania Branigan | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Their right hands rise to black-clad chests and flash out in salute to their nation: "Sieg heil!" They praise Hitler's devotion to ethnic purity. But ...

Mickey Mouse With Nazi Symbol Causes Anger In Poland

Posted 05.25.2011 | World

(AP) WARSAW, Poland — A huge outdoor art poster that blends Mickey Mouse's image with that of a swastika and a nude woman's body is causing a s...

Weekly News Roundup: Muslims, Gays, Nazis and More!

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Katie Halper

After obsessing over Muslim background of suspected Times Square bomber, media becomes enlightened and religiously tolerant, and overlooks fact that the man who helped foil bomb plot was Muslim.

Torsten Krol's The Dolphin People: A Great Utopian Parable for Our Savage Times

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Anis Shivani

Torsten Krol's Callisto was the single best fictional expose of homeland paranoia in America in the age of terrorism. The Dolphin People -- has even larger fish to fry.

This Isn't About Wallis vs. Beck -- It's About Biblical Social Justice

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Jim Wallis

While I have agreed that the cause of social justice has sometimes been politicized for ideological purposes by both Left and Right, I continue to defend the term itself as biblical.

Glenn Beck Promotes Vicious Anti-Semite on Radio Show

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Menachem Rosensaft

Just when we thought that we had heard all the offensive, Nazi-related comments that could possibly be uttered, we are proven wrong with a vengeance.