Calgary Police investigating anti-Semitic post on Facebook
(August 29, 2016) – Police in Calgary have launched an investigation into an antisemitic Facebook post that was exposed by B’nai Brith Canada last Friday….
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B’nai Brith Canada challenges Facebook’s acceptance of the message “Kill all Jews Now”
Facebook has determined that a graphic explicitly calling for the genocide of all Jews “doesn’t violate [its] Community Standards.” The global social media giant made…
After historic Auschwitz visit, Pope Francis says ‘the same thing is happening’ today in many places
(JTA) — Human cruelty “did not end in Auschwitz,” Pope Francis said in Krakow after visiting the Nazi death camp in Poland. Following his historic…
Former Canada Green Party candidate accused of hate speech for denying Holocaust
Human rights complaints have been filed against a former candidate for Canada’s Green Party after she posted online videos in which she denied the Holocaust…
75 years after Jedwabne pogrom, Poland wrestles with evidence of complicity
By Cnaan Liphshiz JEDWABNE, Poland (JTA) — As German army troops invaded eastern Poland, Ichak Lewin’s family fled their town of Wizna. On July 10,…