haaretz.com - 24 days ago
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On November 9, 1938, a massive nation-wide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich. The pretext for this orgy of violence against German Jews was the shooting in Paris two days earlier of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, ...
atlargely.com - 22 days ago
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A little while back I wrote a post
entitled the rich buy the stupid and fabricate a...
movement: "Look at the number of idiots money can buy. Yes, the people protesting are actually getting tax... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com ...
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ettlin.blogspot.com - 19 days ago
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A village vanishes on an Iron Curtain byway
of history LANKOW, Germany – This is not a...
dateline anyone will be seeing as Germany celebrates, and other nations remember, Monday’s 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall heralding the end of the Cold War. More than any other physical ...
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Sprechen zie English? Road Trip Epilog
npr.org - 19 days ago
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With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday
remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin...
Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification. Chancellor Angela Merkel ...
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Germany celebrates fall of Berlin Wall
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Comparing Islamic anti-Semitism to Nazi Germany at its worst
Israpundit —
By Robert S. Wistrich, HAARETZ
On November 9, 1938, a massive nation-wide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich.
The pretext for this orgy of violence against German Jews was the shooting in Paris two days earlier of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish-Jewish refugee.
The state-organized pogrom, instigated by Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, resulted in the burning or damaging of more than a thousand synagogues; the ransacking of about 7,500 businesses, the murder ...
The Reality of Middle East Anti-Semitism
The American Spectator —
... on 11.5.09 @ 6:08AM "The scale and extremism of the [anti-Semitic] literature and commentary available in Arab or Muslim newspapers, journals, magazines, caricatures, on Islamist websites, on the Middle Eastern radio and TV news, in documentaries, films, and educational materials, is comparable only to that of Nazi Germany at its worst." So states Israeli historian Robert Wistrich this week in an op-ed in Israel's (left-wing) daily Haaretz . Wistrich, one of the world's leading authorities on anti-Semitism, is a scholar who stays out of politics and is not identified ...
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