Holocaust comparisons

Nashville hat shop apologizes for selling yellow Jewish stars that read ‘Not Vaccinated’

The famed hat maker Stetson threatened to pull its products from the store.

When a colleague compared a mental health bill to the Holocaust, she interrupted him. Meet Jewish Maryland lawmaker Shane Pendergrass.

The outspoken delegate, who has a reputation for speaking up loudly for what she believes in, says a Republican’s Nazi comparison brought back memories of her late father’s World War II experiences.

GOP lawmaker marks Holocaust remembrance day by likening child mental health bill to Nazi laws

“Shame on you,” a Jewish lawmaker interjected on the debate floor.

Jakub Grabowski, AKA Quebonafide, performs in Warsaw, Poland on April 21, 2018. (Wikimedia Commons/ Itokyl)

Global

Polish rapper under fire for calling COVID-19 ‘modern Holocaust’

Global

Hungarian official retracts op-ed calling George Soros ‘liberal Fuhrer’

Politics

Nazi comparisons have long been off-limits for American Jews. A new political ad suggests that’s changing in the Trump era.

Explainer

The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez concentration camp debate, explained

Politics

Detention facilities or ‘concentration camps’? A debate on names invokes the Nazis.

Editor's Column

Holocaust comparisons are muddying the immigration debate

Politics

Newt Gingrich criticized for likening FBI to Gestapo on eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day

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