• New search engine to target anti-Semitism

    Posted by MOTLorg on February 3, 2016

    Meet the Sniper, an app that will scan the net using a new algorithm, looking for anti-Jewish content. Individuals will be able to check the content and take action as needed. The World Zionist Organization (WZO) is expected to launch its Sniper app, which it says is a search engine

  • Ten thousand expected at March of the Living

    Posted by MOTLorg on February 3, 2016

    Some 10,000 young Jews from over 40 countries are to take part in the March of the Living at the former German Nazi Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland on 5 May.   According to organizers, they will be joined by a group of Poles along a 3km-long route. In

  • VIDEO: ‘It’s not clear if the Holocaust is a reality or not,’ Iran’s supreme leader says

    Posted by MOTLorg on February 3, 2016

    Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday once again repeated provocative assertions about the Holocaust, defying the world on a day that it paused to remember the victims of the Nazi genocide in Europe. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei released a video in which he said America “assists the fake Zionist regime” and that

  • Merkel: Anti-Semitism in Germany More Widespread Than We Thought

    Posted by MOTLorg on February 1, 2016

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel says anti-Semitism is “more widespread” in Germany than some believe and that action is needed to “deal with it – especially among young people… from countries where hatred of Israel and the hatred of Jews is widespread.” Merkel said on her weekly podcast that anti-Semitism is

  • Auschwitz Continues to Draw Visitors, in Poland and on Facebook

    Posted by MOTLorg on February 1, 2016

    Record number of people visited the Nazi extermination camp in 2015, including over 60,000 Israelis.

  • The Yom Hashoah that changed my life by Samantha Mellman

    Posted by MOTLorg on January 31, 2016

    A visit to these grim sites is not for everyone, but I encourage those with the time and means to trust their faith and go. Every year, when I light a candle in memory of my grandfather’s family and the millions of Jews and non-Jews who were lost, I have

  • March of the Living participation boosts Jewish, Zionist identity

    Posted by MOTLorg on January 29, 2016

    A study sponsored by an organization that brings young people on tours of the death camps of Poland has found that its Jewish participants have higher levels of identification with Israel and are more likely to value marrying Jews than the general Jewish population. Conducted by sociologist William Helmreich of

  • Outpouring of antisemitism in Hungary after Hungarian Holocaust drama wins Golden Globe

    Posted by MOTLorg on January 27, 2016

    Following the award of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film to Hungarian Holocaust drama Son of Saulyesterday, Hungary has witnessed an outpouring of antisemitism. Hungary’s largest online newspaper, Index, published some of the worst examples. It includes a flood of comments denying the Holocaust and also blaming the Hungarian Prime Minister for congratulating

  • Complaint Filed Against Belgian Daily That Published Holocaust Denier’s Claims

    Posted by MOTLorg on January 26, 2016

    A Belgian Jewish newspaper filed an official complaint last week with the country’s watchdog on journalism about a daily that published a Holocaust denier’s claim that no one died in Nazi gas chambers. The Antwerp-based Joods Actueel monthly filed the complaint against the De Morgen daily, the monthly’s editor-in-chief, Michael Freilich,

  • Holocaust Remembrance Day: A New Generation of Rescuers?

    Posted by MOTLorg on January 26, 2016

    On January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, people throughout the world will remember victims of the Holocaust. In Lithuania, teachers and students will join this day of commemoration by launching a project called “The Rescue of Another is the Highest Human Virtue.” The new project aims to “encourage the younger