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Elie Wiesel and President Obama are writing a book together, the Holocaust survivor and author told an Israeli newspaper.
Elie Wiesel hugs President Barack Obama before speech at Holocaust Museum in Washington.The book, which the two men will resume writing after Tuesday’s presidential election, is “a book of two friends,” Wiesel, a Nobel laureate, told Haaretz.
Haaretz reported that Wiesel and Obama became friends in 2009 when Wiesel joined Obama on a visit to the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp, where Wiesel was interned at the end of World War II following a death march from Auschwitz.
“Your lecture has stayed with me to this day,” the president told Wiesel years later, Wiesel told Haaretz. “When I heard that, my pulse went up. I told myself that I have to be careful because I can never know whether anyone in the audience will be a future president.”
A brief exerpt from Obama addressing the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, various Holocaust promoters and families of Jewish WW2 survivors at the Holocaust Days of Remembrance ceremony in 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X1nEEPGYlUElie Wiesel and President Obama are writing a book together, the Holocaust survivor... more
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In a Reparations Protest, when you ask a white to turn over their possessions, if, for example, you asked a white woman to turn over her purse or a white man to turn over his car, and he or she refuses, do we have the right to, then, take their property because of black slavery? Many brothers ask.In a Reparations Protest, when you ask a white to turn over their possessions, if, for... more
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Perhaps this lawmaker will be abducted and deported to Germany where he can stand trial for this horrific crime like they did with world famous holocaust denier Ernst Zundel.
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Members of a Norwegian lawmaker's own party have called for his resignation after he publicly denied the Holocaust.
Labor Party lawmaker Anders Mathisen reportedly told the Finnmarken newspaper that the Holocaust never happened and challenged readers to prove him wrong.
“There is no evidence the gas chambers or mass graves existed," he told the newspaper, according to reports. "Even reputable Holocaust historians have admitted it cannot be established.”
Mathisen reportedly has accused Holocaust survivors of exaggerating their stories. He also said that the public has been brainwashed into believing in the Holocaust by films such as "Schindler's List," according to the forum.
The lawmaker has refused to resign from the party.Perhaps this lawmaker will be abducted and deported to Germany where he can stand... more
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...days after his putting 'holocaust' pope pius xii on fast track to sainthood.
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Attorney Brian Cuban, brother of Dallas Mavericks team owner Mark Cuban, has been trying since last year to have the pages of groups with such names as "Holocaust: A Series of Lies," and "Holocaust is a Holohoax" removed from Facebook.Attorney Brian Cuban, brother of Dallas Mavericks team owner Mark Cuban, has been... more
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A British Roman Catholic bishop embroiled in a row over Holocaust denial has flown out of Argentina days after being told to leave the country.
Richard Williamson was asked to leave Argentina, where he had been living, after he refused to retract his denial of the existence of Nazi gas chambers.
Wearing dark glasses and a cap, Bishop Williamson was swiftly moved through the Argentine capital's Ezeiza airport, accompanied by two men.
Local TV showed the bishop raising a clenched fist to a reporter's face, then pushing him into a pole with his shoulder as he moved past, the Associated Press news agency said.A British Roman Catholic bishop embroiled in a row over Holocaust denial has flown out... more
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Pope Benedict XVI renewed his “full and unquestionable solidarity” with the world’s Jews and condemned all ignorance, denial and downplaying of the brutal slaughter of millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust.
The pope’s comments Jan. 28 came a day after the Chief Rabbinate of Israel postponed indefinitely a March meeting with the Vatican in protest over the pope lifting the excommunication of a traditionalist bishop who has minimized the severity and extent of the Holocaust.
Speaking the day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Benedict said he hoped “the memory of the Holocaust will persuade humanity to reflect on the unpredictable power of evil when it conquers the heart of man.”
The Jews were “innocent victims of a blind racist and religious hatred,” he said at the end of his general audience in the Paul VI hall.
The pope recalled his many visits to Auschwitz, calling it “one of the concentration camps in which millions of Jews were brutally slaughtered” by the Nazis.
“May the Holocaust be a warning to everyone against forgetting, denying or minimizing” what happened to millions of Jews “because violence waged against just one human being is violence against everyone,” he said.
“May violence never again humiliate the dignity of mankind,” he said.
The Holocaust should be an important lesson for old and new generations, teaching them that “only the arduous path of listening and dialogue, love and forgiveness leads the world’s peoples, cultures and religions to the hoped–for goal of fraternity and peace in truth,” said the pope.
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Rabbi David Rosen, a member of the delegation of the Chief Rabbinate, said on Israeli television’s IBA News that the meeting with the Vatican had been postponed indefinitely “until a response comes from the Vatican that’s satisfactory to enable us to resume our relationship as before.”
The director general of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, Oded Wiener, told Catholic News Service the pope’s Jan. 28 statement condemning the denial of the Holocaust was “extremely important ... for all humanity” and that it was a “great step forward” in resolving the current embroilment between the Vatican and the rabbinate.
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Father Lombardi said Pope Benedict’s remarks condemning the Holocaust Jan. 28 and on previous occasions “should be more than enough of a response to the expectation of those who have expressed doubt concerning the pope and the Catholic Church’s position” on the Holocaust.
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Cardinal Kasper said the traditionalist bishop’s remarks were unacceptable, “foolish” and in no way reflect the position of the Catholic Church.
“Such gibberish is unacceptable,” the German cardinal said in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica Jan. 26.
“To deny the Holocaust is unacceptable and is absolutely not the position of the Catholic Church,” he said.Pope Benedict XVI renewed his “full and unquestionable solidarity” with... more
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