By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel — April 24, 2017 … Is the Holocaust really over? We know that Adolph Hitler committed suicide with a bullet to the head. We know that US and Russian troops liberated concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Sobibor, Treblinka and Auschwitz-Birkenau. That Jews were hung, shot and gassed to death. That… Read More »
By Herb Brandon and Joel Leyden Israel News Agency New York, NY — February 22, 2017 … After denouncing a wave of anti-Semitic incidents across the United States, the ADL’s headquarters in New York City were targeted. The ADL responded with the following statement: “The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today received an anonymous bomb threat called into… Read More »
By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Washington, DC — February 10, 2017 … US Congressman Lee Zeldin, member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus, was appointed by House Speaker Paul Ryan to serve on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. The United States Holocaust Memorial Council was… Read More »
The bombs may not be real, but the fear is. By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency New York, NY — January 18, 2017 … The doors are always kept open. No one standing over them. All may come and go. It’s the Jewish tradition of “welcome the stranger”. But this practice, this age old honored… Read More »
By Herb Brandon Israel News Agency Whitefish, Montana — January 18, 2017 … Following Neo Nazi, White Supremacy threats of planning an armed march through the streets of Whitefish, Montana, Jews Against Hate are preparing a petition for Congress that would designate all Nazi groups as terror organizations. The British Parliament recently passed into law… Read More »
By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Whitefish, Montana — January 10, 2017 … Montana shoppers will soon begin seeing posters in the windows of stores that want to be recognized as safe places thanks to cadre of volunteers and the Missoula Downtown Association. A human rights group of Missoula residents who were spurred by Nazi, anti-Semitic… Read More »
Elie Wiesel shows his support for Prime Minister Netanyahu as he warns the US Congress of a second Holocaust created by Iran’s nuclear terror program. By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel — July 2, 2016 … Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening issued the following statement on the passing of Elie Wiesel: “The… Read More »
By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Bergen-Belsen — May 4 2016 … “The horrors of Bergen-Belsen and the Holocaust have bequeathed a responsibility to later generations to ensure that the Jewish people would never again be helpless.” Israel MFA Director General Dr. Dore Gold The following was communicated by the MFA to the Israel News Agency. Following… Read More »
By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel — April 30, 2016 … The official Opening Ceremony for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day will take place on Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 20:00, in Warsaw Ghetto Square, Yad Vashem, Mount of Remembrance, Jerusalem. Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will… Read More »
The Nazi salute and intent to murder Jews is the same. By Ruthie Blum Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel — July 28, 2015 … There is good reason to refrain from bandying about the word “Holocaust” with abandon. The defining atrocity of the 20th century has to be given the gravitas it deserves. Comparing lesser events… Read More »