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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

The teen’s parents said he wanted the cakes and “it was a childish joke.”

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.

Emboldened by the support of their mayor, the people responsible for the racist display think it was a good joke, international outcry notwithstanding.

March 6, 2019 4:15 pm

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

“It’s not up to the mayor to forbid” such displays, and “the carnival participants had no sinister intentions,” Aalst Mayor Christoph D’Haese said.

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

Soccer match in Argentina turns violent amid fans’ chants of ‘killing the Jews to make soap’

November 23, 2018 12:22 pm

Swedish doctor bullies Jewish staff, colleagues charge

November 15, 2018 8:03 am

Jewish professor assaulted by Palestinian, then tackled by police in Germany

July 13, 2018 6:08 am

Jews reportedly barred from UK campus lecture charging Israel with ‘reproductive sabotage’ of Palestinians

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 19, 2018 10:13 am

Dutch government ‘obsessed’ with Israel, Simon Wiesenthal Center says

October 27, 2017 12:20 pm

SS death squad soldiers, tracked down by Nazi hunter, face national TV audience

By Toby Axelrod September 29, 2017 4:36 am

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