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Musk's X sues liberal advocacy group Media Matters over its report on ads next to hate groups' posts

Nov. 21, 2023 09:08 AM EST

Elon Musk’s social media company X filed a lawsuit against liberal advocacy group Media Matters for America on Monday, saying it manufactured a report to show advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist posts in order to “drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X...

IBM, EU, Disney and others pull ads from Elon Musk's X as concerns about antisemitism fuel backlash

Nov. 18, 2023 16:02 PM EST

Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with billionaire owner Elon Musk inflaming tensions with his own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory. IBM,...

Germans commemorate 'Night of Broken Glass' terror as antisemitism is on the rise again

Nov. 10, 2023 00:28 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — Across Germany, in schools, city halls, synagogues, churches and parliament, people came together Thursday to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht — or the “Night of Broken Glass” — in 1938 in which the Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria. ...

Holocaust survivor recalls 'Night of Broken Glass' horrors in interactive, virtual reality project

Nov. 10, 2023 00:19 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — Charlotte Knobloch was 6 years old when she saw the synagogues of Munich burning and watched helplessly as two Nazi officers marched away a beloved friend of her father who was beaten up and bleeding on the forehead. It was Nov. 9, 1938, or Kristallnacht — the...

Rome scrubs antisemitic graffiti from Jewish Quarter on 85th anniversary of the Nazi Kristallnacht

Nov. 09, 2023 12:04 PM EST

MILAN (AP) — Rome is removing antisemitic graffiti that was scrawled on buildings in the city's old Jewish Quarter on Thursday, which marked the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht — or the “Night of Broken Glass” — in which the Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria in 1938....

Sidewalk plaques commemorating Romans deported by Nazis are vandalized in Italian capital

Nov. 01, 2023 12:03 PM EDT

ROME (AP) — Italian politicians and Jewish leaders have condemned the vandalizing this week of four tiny memorial plaques embedded in sidewalks in front of apartment buildings where Roman Jews were living when they were deported from the Nazi-occupied city in 1944 and sent to their deaths in...

Russia claims `neo-Nazis' were at wake for Ukrainian soldier in village café where missile killed 52

Oct. 09, 2023 23:11 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s U.N. ambassador alleged Monday that “neo-Nazis” and military-age men were at the wake for a Ukrainian soldier in a village café where a missile last week killed 52 people, even as Security Council members retorted that Russia was responsible for starting the...

Today in History: October 2, Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising during World War II

Oct. 02, 2023 00:02 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Monday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2023. There are 90 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 2, 1944, German troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people...

Leader of Canada's House of Commons apologizes for honoring man who fought for Nazis

Sep. 24, 2023 19:28 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons apologized Sunday for recognizing a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II. Just after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an address in the House of Commons on Friday, Canadian lawmakers...

Artworks stolen by Nazis returned to heirs of outspoken cabaret performer killed in the Holocaust

Sep. 20, 2023 18:26 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — During his abbreviated lifetime, a cabaret performer named Fritz Grünbaum amassed a trove of artwork — more than 400 pieces, including 80 sketches and paintings by the Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele that were ultimately plundered by the Nazis. For a while, many of those...