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Germany probing alleged Auschwitz guard from US – Associated Press, USA

24 Sep 2012 Germany has launched a war crimes investigation against an 87-year-old Philadelphia man it accuses of serving as an SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp. READ MORE »

Simon Geissbühler: Holocaust revisionism and negationism in Romania – Israel Journal on Foreign Affairs

24 Sep 2012 Recent remarks by a Romanian politician that “only 24 Romanian citizens of Jewish descent were killed” in Iaşi in late June 1941 and that this act was carried out solely “by German soldiers” have highlighted revisionist and negationist tendencies that exist in the country today. READ MORE »

French National Front leader Marine Le Pen calls for ban on wearing of the Jewish skullcap in public – ‘in the name of equality’ – Daily Mail, UK

24 Sep 2012 Far right politician Marine Le Pen has caused outrage across France by calling for the banning of the Jewish skullcap in public.  READ MORE »

WJC ANALYSIS – Muhammad film uproar rattles Palestinian agenda

24 Sep 2012 The anger expressed by the Arab and Muslim world in response to a film that exposed the Prophet Muhammad in a negative light affected Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank in sharply different ways.  READ MORE »

EJC president calls for ‘clear division’ between incitement and offensive material – European Jewish Press

21 Sep 2012 There needs to be a clear distinction between incitement to hatred and violence and material deemed offensive to a particular religion, European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor has said. READ MORE »