The Simon Wiesenthal Center: Combating Antisemitism and Other Forms of Hate
The Simon Wiesenthal Center was founded in 1977 by Rabbi Marvin Hier (pictured at right), who today is its dean.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center was founded in 1977 by Rabbi Marvin Hier (pictured at right), who today is its dean.
The State of Israel’s official memorial to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, Yad Vashem, was established in 1953.
The Inquisition — including but not limited to the Spanish Inquisition — was a campaign of unimaginable cruelty and forced conversion During the Dark Ages. The Catholic institution of terror was primarily aimed at conversos, “crypto-Jews” who had converted to Christianity under the most extreme duress — including threat of torture and being burned at…
In a speech he gave at an Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officer training ceremony in October 2019, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on the country’s youth to continue its “resistance” against America. In addition to chants of “Death to America!” the ceremony was an opportunity to shout out Iran’s longstanding goal and threat…
Richard Spencer (born 1978) is president of the National Policy Institute, a white supremacist think tank. Spencer himself claims he’s not a neo-Nazi or white supremacist; he prefers to be called a “white nationalist” or “white identitarian.” Ironically, he also refers to himself as a “Zionist for white people.” (Apparently, Jews are not white in…
Many people know about the Palestinian nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), when some 600,000 Palestinians became refugees in surrounding Arab countries while the State of Israel was being established. Far less known is a Jewish nakba, during which an even greater number of mizrahi (eastern) Jews fled Arab countries, mainly under duress. The majority of those…
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Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
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Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed