for questions about claims based on antisemitism.
Questions tagged [antisemitism]
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Does Lebanon ban the diary of Anne Frank?
According to factslides, a reddit post, Wikipedia, and the Wall Street Journal, the Diary of Anne Frank is banned in Lebanon.
According to a reddit comment this is "rubbish". Other news reports a single private school in Lebanon removing references…
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Did JK Rowling ever describe Harry Potter goblins as "hook-nosed"?
There's a persistent argument online that the goblins from Harry Potter are anti-semitic caricatures, and most critics focus in on the fact that Rowling allegedly presents them with hooked noses:
From Forbes:
While goblins are often depicted in…
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Did Benjamin Franklin warn the young American Nation against the Jews?
In reading some recent history, I came across an open letter from Osama bin Laden to the American public. In it, he claims the typical "Jews own your banks and media" stuff. But he also claims that Benjamin Franklin warned us about that possible…
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Did Borat originate the notion that Jews shape shift?
In the 2006 Mockumentary Borat, two of the characters believe that Jews can "shape-shift", which is also noted in the last section here.
In 2015, in the wake of the Charlie Hedbo attacks, Daily Beat reporter Dana Kennedy claimed that at least one…
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Did Amin al-Husaini say, "slaughter Jews wherever you find them"?
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (1897-1974) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. He was appointed as the grand Mufti of Jerusalem in 1921 by the British High Commissioner to shill for the British Colonial Empire.…
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Is Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" a bestseller in Muslim countries?
This article from the Telegraph makes the claim that Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto, Mein Kampf is a bestseller in the Palestinian territories:
AN Arabic translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf which has become a
bestseller in the Palestinian…
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Did Eleanor Roosevelt say that the Jews brought the Holocaust on themselves?
Glenn Beck this morning claimed that Eleanor Roosevelt made the argument at the time of WWII that the Jews had brought the German actions on themselves because of their control of finance and media.
Is there any record or her making statements that…
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Did New York Times post this Hitler apology stating Jews baited the Nazis by trying to fight back on June 15, 1934?
Post from Revolution News reads,
"By hating Hitler and trying to fight back, Jews are only increasing the severity of his policies against them.
"If Jews throughout the world try to instill into the minds of Hitler and his supporters recognition…
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Did a German party ask a Holocaust denier to assess the antisemitism of a party member?
The Bild reported this:
Die AfD hat den Holocaust-Leugner Gerard Menuhin (67) gebeten, ein Gutachten über die Bücher des baden-württembergischen AfD-Landtagsabgeordneten Wolfgang Gedeon zu erstellen, ob dessen Bücher antisemitisch sind.
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Did Ilhan Omar oppose a resolution against antisemitism?
Ted Cruz recently tweeted at Ilhan Omar:
Why again did you oppose the House resolution against antisemitism?
I could find a number of news reports about Res.183, which condemned antisemitism and anti-Muslim discrimination. The resolution was a…
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Did Abraham Isaac Kook say that Gentiles have different souls than Jews?
Wikipedia claims that a Jewish yeshiva teaches that Jews have different souls than Gentiles. To support the claim, wikipedia says that one of their teachers quoted Abraham Isaac Kook as following:
The difference between the Jewish soul, in all its…
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Did Richard Nixon say, "Jews think they can run the world"?
Daily Stormer:
In Chicago the demonstrators got close enough to rough up Pompidou and spit on his wife. “This is unconscionable,” raged Nixon. “The fucking Jews think they can run the world. Well…” And on and on.
While researching for the claim, I…
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Are Republicans running ads with images of bundles of cash specifically against Jewish candidates?
The Washington Post has an article about Republican ads which depict candidates holding fistful of dollars. Specifically, the article contains claims that:
“[...] I will say I have not seen images like this in 21st-century America before.”…
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Did the Israeli paper Ma'ariv run an article titled "The Jews Who Run Clinton's Court" in 1994?
In January 2018, Puerto Rico's central newspaper El Nuevo Dia ran an op-ed accusing Congress of being "controlled by Jews," on the following evidence:
“More than 20 years ago, the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv (second largest
newspaper in Israel) had…
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Is Amin al-Husseini's memoir being accurately quoted concerning eradicating Jews?
A variety of sources are stating that in a memoir Amin al-Husseini, once the Mufti of Jerusalem, wrote:
Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked…
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