Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in the opening ceremony of a new exhibition about the Holocaust, the great mass-execution drive of over six million Jews and others deemed by Nazi Germany to be “unfit” for life. The speech was extremely succinct, so much so that we are printing the full translation below along with the video.
Monika Schaefer, a woman from Alberta, Canada, was arrested in Germany, a country that forbids questioning the Holocaust, and is facing a 5-year prison term. The Jewish group, B'nai Brith, filed complaints with German officials against Schaefer because she committed "anti-Semitic incitement." This was because Schaefer had made a video in 2016 entitled 'Sorry Mom, I Was Wrong about the Holocaust." In the video (click on link), she says she regrets reproaching her German mother for not doing something to stop the death camps.
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Why is Yemen not being described as a Holocaust. Why are the western governments and media refusing to use the H word when they use it so liberally to demonise target governnments or nations? Even Bana Alabed used it in her Tweets that were written for her by her mother, with western PR agencies as the “hidden hand”.
The horrifying effect of the Saudi war of attrition against the Yemeni people, endorsed by the US, UK, EU and UN.
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Official British events to mark the centennary of the Balfour Declaration could be seen as questionable, to say the least. Theresa May’s commitment to the commemorations were promised to Benjamin Netanyahu some time ago – regardless of the fact that the it will leave a bitter taste in the mouths of many or that we’re […]
The term ritual defamation was coined by Laird Wilcox to describe the destruction of the reputation of a person by unfair, wrongful, or malicious speech or publication. The defamation is in retaliation for opinions expressed by the victim, with the intention of silencing that person’s influence, and making an example of him so as to discourage similar “insensitivity” to subjects currently ruled as taboo. It is aggressive, organized and skillfully applied, often by a representative of a special interest group, such as, ironically, the Anti-Defamation League.
NATO has released a Hollywood style propaganda film glorying the Hitler aligned so-called Forest Brothers, a group of far-right fighters in the Baltic states who after the Great Patriotic War was lost by Nazi Germany, took to fighting a guerrilla war against the sovereignty of the Soviet Union which was finally terminated in 1953.
NATO’s glorifying of Nazism has been slammed by the Spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova in a Facebook post.
She stated,
Book review: Nonviolent Resistance to the Nazis by George Paxton
by Ian Sinclair
Peace News
June-July 2017
“But what about Nazi Germany?” No doubt many Peace News readers have been asked this question when they have voiced support for nonviolence outside activist circles.
Ingrid Carlqvist worked in mainstream media for many years, before starting Dispatch International with Lars Hedegaard in 2012. She has been a writer for Gatestone Institute and co-hosts the popular Swedish podcast, Ingrid & Conrad.
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God help us should we ever face a situation in our own lives when we need to act in the interest of human rights and in the same way – or need others to act on our behalf. This is why films like The Zookeeper’s Wife exist: the point the way to heroic actions and inspire the same in us.
