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Dethroned. (© FlaglerLive) Since the end of World War II the United States has not been without its share of kooks and frauds who deny that the holocaust ever happened. So has Europe. In most of Western Europe and Russia, holocaust-denial is illegal. It can land you in jail. It’s never been illegal in the United States, nor should it be. The way holocaust-denialism has been handled in the United States is a useful template for evaluating current controversies about fact and fabrication and the ways government or private media contend with speech, free or false.  Holocaust-denialism has al...

Wiesel will join other human rights figures, including Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt as spiritual, moral icons

Print Bernard L. Madoff, the notorious financier who pulled off history’s biggest swindle and came to epitomize Wall Street corruption as the economy plunged into the worst downturn since the Great Depression, died of natural causes while serving a 150-year prison sentence, a person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press. He was 82. Suffering from kidney failure, hypertension and heart problems, Madoff died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., apparently from natural causes, the person said. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to the AP on the co...

6 Holocaust survivors to give their testimonies at annual Yom HaShoah ceremony Share “If we forget, the dead will die a second time,” said Nobel prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel. As the world prepares to remember the Holocaust on Friday, it is a very real issue in South Africa where the community of those who survived the Nazi German genocide of 6 million Jews is dwindling. The handful of survivors who remain from the death camps are old. They were children when they were interned with their parents, grandparents and siblings – most of whom never made it to freedom. The ...