The far right and neo-Nazis: an increasing terrorist threat | DW documentary ▶️

May 1st, 2024 | Here comes a long and harsh winter of 21st century neo-Nazism, which may turn out to be even more vicious, even more criminal than the original phenomenon. Across Europe, the next generation of white supremacists are being radicalized. They fantasize about an ethnically pure Europe and are taking action. The threat…

Jewish Yale University professor speaks out: ‘They’re obviously not antisemitic protests’ – Jason Stanley | Zeteo ▶️

Jason Stanley is not just any Jewish philosopher; he is the grandson of the legendary Ilse Stanley, who helped release over 400 people from Nazi concentration camps in the late 1930s. He is not just the author of one major book on fascism—but, soon, two of them. And he is not just a professor of…

German far-right members who allegedly wanted to seize power face trial | DW News ▶️

April 29, 2024 | In Germany, nine people suspected of being part of a violent far-right group which allegedly plotted to overthrow the government, are going on trial. Prosecutors say the ringleader was a businessman and German aristocrat called Heinrich Prince Reuss. The alleged conspirators face charges of terrorism and high treason. It's claimed their…

Immanuel Kant’s radical philosophy | DW History & Culture ▶️

April 14, 2024 | Use your brain! With that message, Immanuel Kant called on people to think for themselves. Born 300 years ago in Königsberg, Prussia, he developed his philosophy in a world of absolutist rulers. He confidently called on people to stop allowing themselves to be treated like "dumb animals" by politicians and the…

“Why young Jewish Americans are turning on Israel” – Simone Zimmerman | Middle East Eye ▶️

"What could be more dangerous to Jewish people right now than lumping us all in with this genocidal campaign of the Israeli government?" Simone Zimmerman April 25, 2024 | “I was definitely raised to be a Jewish leader of some kind.” With college campuses all over the US gripped by intense battles around free speech,…

Politics of Hate: the Far Right in the USA and Europe | Journeyman Pictures ▶️

A far-reaching investigation into the rise of the far-right in Europe and America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YVUBWdK_rg&ab_channel=JourneymanPictures At 16 he became the leader of the Chicago Area Skinheads, later a white supremacist punk band. But when Christian Picciolini started a family, he began questioning his far right views. This timely documentary explores a changing Western political climate, chronicling…

“A priest in a Nazi collar: German military chaplains and the Holocaust” – Doris Bergen | US Holocaust Memorial Museum ▶️

March 7, 2024 | During World War II, approximately 1,000 Christian chaplains served the German military. What role did these Catholic priests and Protestant pastors play in the Holocaust? Drawing on a wide array of sources—chaplains' letters, military reports, Jewish testimonies, photographs, and popular culture—this lecture offers insight into how Christian clergy advanced the cause…

“The Traumatic and Inconsistent Ideology of Zionism” – Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro ▶️

Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro explains the attempt to re-engineer Jewish identity that resulted in the creation of a self-deprecating, logically inconsistent, traumatic ideology called Zionism. Yaakov Shapiro's religious definition of what it means to be a Jew is very simple: a Jew is anyone who accepts and keeps the 613 commandments (mitzvot) given by God at…

“Diplomatic crisis: Lula compares Gaza to Holocaust” – Glenn Greenwald | System Update ▶️

February 21, 2024 | Bigotry, hipocrisy, selective outrage. Glenn Greenwald argues that Lula's speech was not inconsiderate of the memory of the Holocaust, let alone antisemitic. It was careless, improvised, yes, but definitely not hate speech: it conveyed some bitter truths that many are afraid to speak out. Lula being accused of "hate speech" by…

“A Critical Analysis Of The Claim That Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism” – Yaakov Shapiro ▶️

Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro refutes the idea that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, debunks the arguments of its proponents, explains how to identify actual anti-Semitism, and provides a definition of anti-Semitism created by the scholars of the International Council for Middle East Studies (ICMES). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGdRzFmStdw&ab_channel=YaakovShapiro Yaakov Shapiro is an international speaker, author, and pulpit rabbi for over 30…