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The signal for the coming end of the Jews in Germany and Europe began with a law declaring them aliens in their own country. The 1935 Nuremberg law that stripped the Jews of citizenship was met with silent acquiescence by the vast majority of Germans. But not by justice inspector Friedrich Kellner: "If the Jews, who have contributed real achievements over the centuries to our nation’s development, can be made a people without rights, that is an act unworthy of a cultured nation, and the curse of this evil deed will indelibly rest on the entire German people." As a...

A few days ago, within a week of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, my mother’s youngest brother passed away. His passing made me reflect on the long tentacles of the Shoah that leaves its mark on lives until today.

THE Holocaust Memorial Day marking the genocides of the 20th century was marred on Sunday when a gang of youths stoned Jewish tourists on a guided tour of London's East End. A group of 96 visitors looking at sites of Jewish interest were attacked by youths hiding behind a fence in a back street in Whitechapel. Two were struck by the missiles, an American woman just starting a new post at London's Metropolitan University and a Canadian lecturer. The woman had blood pouring from her head and needed hospital treatment. The tour was organised by leading local historian Clive Bettington,...

IN A move widely seen to be bowing to Muslim pressure, Bolton Council has scrapped its Holocaust Memorial Day event. The council is to replace it with a Genocide Memorial Day in June. This is in line with the policy of the Muslim Council of Britain, which continues to boycott HMD and is asking for a Genocide Day, which will also mark "the ongoing genocide and human rights abuses of Palestinians" by Israelis. The council decision was made in consultation with the town's Interfaith Council. But Rabbi Joseph Lever of United Synagogue who has participated in the Bolton event for...

PARIS (Reuters) - As Jews around the world marked Holocaust Day, France has been confronted with the bruising accusation by the head of its Jewish community that it is tolerating a new and pernicious form of anti-Semitism. Roger Cukierman, head of the CRIF umbrella group of Jewish organisations, sparked off a bitter dispute by warning that a "politically correct" anti-Semitism had wormed its way into the far-left amid a rising tide of protest against Israeli policies. He charged on Monday a de facto "brown-green-red" alliance of neo-Nazis, environmentalists and left-wingers in France had started out criticising Israeli treatment of Palestinians...