SHOCKING: 74 - What They Never Told You

There’s a lesson to be learned from Jones, Irving controversies

Words matter, and influential figures need to reject injustice in all forms

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 6, 2022

Eastern Standard Preview Dec. 5

Real and immediate need lingers in areas of eastern Kentucky hit hard by the July flash flood - Breathitt, Knott, Letcher and Perry counties, in particular. What is needed and how to contribute leads this week’s edition | K-12 educators across the Commonwealth are in training to teach about the…

WEKU · Dec 5, 2022

Netanyahu calls for Trump to condemn antisemitism after dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes

Netanyahu says Trump’s dinner with West and white supremacist Nick Fuentes was ‘not merely unacceptable, it’s just wrong’

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2022

Antisemitic celebrities stoke fears of normalizing hate

A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol spread by celebrities is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up the risk of violence

The Independent UK · Dec 3, 2022

Czech museum to return original Beethoven score to heirs

A musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is getting returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, whose members had to flee the country to escape the Holocaust

The Independent UK · Dec 3, 2022

Kanye’s Subreddit, Much Like My Spotify Wrapped, Is Entirely A Taylor Swift Haven Now

“She made Graduation.”

Pedestrian.tv · Dec 3, 2022

‘Silence is complicity’: Biden responds to Kanye West’s Hitler praise

‘The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure. And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides’

The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2022

Genocides persist, nearly 70 years after the Holocaust – but there are recognized ways to help prevent them

The newly formed United Nations passed its first international treaty on Dec. 9, 1948, just three years after the Holocaust ended. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was designed to prevent genocide from ever happening again.

The Conversation · Dec 2, 2022

Kanye's meltdown: Fascist grotesque

Fascism thrives on gruesome caricature — and it's tough to beat a pro-Trump Black rapper praising Adolf Hitler

Salon · Dec 2, 2022

Commentary: Trump’s decision to entertain hatemongers is a part of an ongoing campaign to normalize prejudice

“We will stand up to hatred and bullying wherever it rears its head.” Such was the message at the 2016 Risa K. Lambert Luncheon, Chicago’s massive fundraiser for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. That same season, Donald Trump was running his first presidential campaign, which was fueled with language and…

Chicago Tribune · Dec 2, 2022