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These names are being talked about to be the US anti-Semitism monitor April 7, 2021 5:34 pm Nancy Kaufman, seen in January 2019, said a number of people outside the Biden administration urged her to apply for the monitors post, so she made her interest known to people inside the administration. (Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images) Advertisement WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nancy Kaufman, the former CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, said this week that she had been in touc...

IfNotNow smears IHRA definition as a threat to progressivism   March 5, 2021 (JNS) — The self-proclaimed Jewish-American “progressive” organization IfNotNow hosted a discussion on Jan. 27 about “how the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism has been destroying the progressive movement.” The word “discussion,” may, in fact, be too generous a term for what was, in reality, a diatribe of misinformation. An address by Taher Herzallah, associate director of outreach and grassroots orga...

At the height of the debate over Israel’s possible annexation of the West Bank last summer, J Street, the liberal pro-Israel group, was urging followers on social media to write to Senators opposing the move. Elan Carr, the State Department’s envoy to combat antisemitism, jumped in to take exception to J Street’s use in a Tweet of a photo of then-President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the White House as Jared Kushner and two other Jewish advisers ...

IfNotNow smears IHRA definition as a ‘threat’ to progressivism IfNotNow smears IHRA definition as a ‘threat’ to progressivism For the group and its allies, the acknowledgment of the connection between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism likely hits too close to home, hence their crusade to smear it by any means necessary. (February 19, 2021 / JNS) The self-proclaimed Jewish-American “progressive” organization IfNotNow hosted a discussion on Jan. 27 about “how the IHRA definition of a...

Article content A University of Ottawa history professor says he’s deeply concerned about the chilling effect a Polish court ruling could have on Holocaust scholarship like his that seeks to explore the role of individual Polish collaborators. In a telephone interview from Poland on Wednesday, Prof. Jan Grabowski said the ruling, which demands an apology for “inaccurate information” published in a 2018 book he helped edit, has unleashed a frightening backlash. We apologize, but this video...

Court rules Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski disseminated false information and harmed the honor of a man they said helped kill Jews in WWII; his niece brought the suit

by Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press Posted Feb 9, 2021 4:10 pm ADT Last Updated Feb 9, 2021 at 4:25 pm ADT TORONTO — A Polish court order that an eminent Canadian historian and his co-editor apologize for suggesting a man helped kill Jews during the Second World World has angered Jewish human rights activists in Canada and abroad. They say the ruling against Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking is part of an ongoing effort to obscure Polish complicity in the genocide of Jews during the Holocau...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A court in Warsaw ruled Tuesday that two prominent Holocaust...

Fears rise that Polish libel trial could threaten future Holocaust research Staff and agencies © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: AP Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial over a book examining Poles’ behaviour during the second world war, a case whose outcome is expected to determine the future of independent Holocaust research under Poland’s nationalist government. A verdict is expected in Warsaw’s district court on 9 February in the case against Barbara E...

Future of Holocaust research in Poland hinges on libel case Vanessa Gera Updated:  Tags:  1943 AP FILE - In this 1943 photo, a group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter. Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial for a scholarly examination of Polish behavior during World War II, a case whose outcome is expected to determine the fate of independent Holocaust ...