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Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center

EU official says the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s annual antisemitism list has gone too far

Katharina von Schnurbein, the European Union’s coordinator for fighting antisemitism, says the center’s list is now hurting the cause it means to uplift.

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 10, 2022 3:43 pm

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Joel Lion, Israel's ambassador to Ukraine, left and other dignitaries commemorating the Holocaust at the Ukrainian Parliament on Jan. 16, 2020. (The Assembly of Nationalities of Ukraine)

Ukrainian senior academic proposes to rename city of Uman for Nazi collaborator

The pilgrimage destination should be called “Bandera City,” Bohdan Bilinsky suggested after Israel’s ambassador protested a stadium being named for another alleged war criminal.

March 12, 2021 12:17 pm

Leon Rupnik, wearing a suit, giving the Nazi salute with German soldiers in Slovenia sometime between 1943 and 1945. (Archives of the Republic of Slovenia)

Slovenian court voids Nazi collaborator’s treason conviction

The 1946 trial of Leon Rupnik, who liquidated the country’s Jewish population and was executed, was ruled unjust.

January 14, 2020 11:46 am

Actors performing the play "Our People" at the Juozas Miltinis Drama Theater in Panevėžys, Lithuania on Nov. 24, 2019. (Arvydo Gudo)

Lithuanian state theater stages controversial play on Holocaust complicity

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 25, 2019 2:40 pm

Serbia to block construction on former concentration camps

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 2, 2019 9:08 am

Vilnius mayor orders removal of contested plaque honoring alleged war criminal

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 27, 2019 2:30 pm

A portrait of Adolf Hitler on a birthday cake in Italy, Jan. 27, 2019. (Photo courtesy of the Simon Wiesenthal Center)

Italian boy, 15, celebrates birthday with Hitler cake featuring Holocaust jokes

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 14, 2019 11:24 am

Puppets of Jews on display at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium on March 3, 2019. Courtesy of FJO

I spoke to the creators of Belgium’s anti-Semitic carnival float. They’re not sorry.

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 6, 2019 4:15 pm

Puppets of Jews on display at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium on March 3, 2019. Courtesy of FJO

Belgian mayor defends carnival float featuring Jews with money and a rat

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 5, 2019 6:32 pm

Paris duty free store sorry for invoice calling Tel Aviv airport ‘occupied Palestine’

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 21, 2018 12:36 pm

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