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Tennessee parents, teachers push back against 'Maus' removal

Parents, teachers and students packed a crowded meeting of the McMinn County School Board to talk about “Maus," a Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic novel the board banned from its curriculum last month

The Independent UK

Jimmy Carr sent vile letter to Stephen Hawking and was left shocked by his response

The comedian faced backlash recently over a 'sickening and unacceptable' Holocaust 'joke' featured in his Netflix stand-up special 'His Dark Material'.

Daily Record

Israel Holocaust memorial sheds doubt on tattoo stamps up for auction

Jerusalem (AFP) - Tattoo stamps put up for auction were not used by Nazis on Jewish and other inmates of Auschwitz as claimed, a spokesman for Israel's Holocaust memorial said Friday.

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MPs call for Roma and Sinti genocide to be taught on national curriculum after Jimmy Carr row

Education secretary urged not to let genocide be ‘air-brushed out of teachings on this dark period’

The Independent UK

Roma and Sinti genocide must be taught in schools after Jimmy Carr ‘joke’, charities say

The comedian should not be left to teach the British public, they warned

The Independent UK

Latvia passes long-awaited Holocaust restitution law

The bill includes funding to revitalize the Baltic nation’s Jewish community, which was almost completely wiped out during World War II

The Independent UK

Germany’s FM to Visit Israel, Ramallah to Bolster Peace Process

Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock hopes to revitalize the Middle East peace process that has laid mostly dormant since 2014. She will kick off on Thursday a three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, Jordan and Egypt. The agenda includes a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial that…

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Holocaust memorial says it's unlikely purported 'Auschwitz tattoo kit' was used on Jews

A partial tattoo kit offered at auction in Israel as an Auschwitz artefact is highly unlikely to have been used on Jews at the Nazi concentration camp, a court-ordered investigation has found following outcry from Holocaust survivors.

Reuters

Blinken in Melbourne says Australia demonstrated best of humanity

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told students in Melbourne that Australia had showed it was capable of the best of humanity, transforming the life of his step-father who arrived as a teenage refugee after the Holocaust.

Reuters

The Glasgow trail that sheds light on the lives of Jewish refugees during the Second World War

A new history walk honours the hundreds who fled Nazi persecution in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic during the Holocaust to build new lives in Scotland.

Glasgow Live

Add genocide of Gypsies to national curriculum, say charities

Forty organisations call for ‘meaningful change’ after Jimmy Carr’s joke about mass murder of Roma and Sinti people

The Guardian - UK

Ron Johnson erupts at Biden’s Holocaust expert who accused him of ‘white supremacy’ over Jan 6

Wisconsin senator is a frequent promotor of outrageous conspiracy theories

The Independent UK

Jimmy Carr: Protesters demand apology outside comedian’s Dunstable show

Carr has been widely condemned for a joke about the Holocaust in his Netflix special

The Independent UK

North East woman who lost 10 family members in Holocaust demands Jimmy Carr show be removed from Netflix

Gwen Lamb from Middlesbrough called on Netflix to remove his programme immediately

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Brickbat: Now, That's Going Too Far

British Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said the government is preparing legislation that would limit streaming services from showing comedy that some people might find offensive. Her remarks came after some people expressed outrage about comedian Jimmy Carr's latest special for Netflix. In one bit, Carr said that when people talk…

The Conversation

Banning ‘Maus’ only exposes the significance of this searing graphic novel about the Holocaust

A school board in Tennessee voted unanimously in favour of removing the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman from its Grade 8 language arts curriculum in January. Maus is based on interviews with Spiegelman’s father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Auschwitz survivor, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992…

Daily Mirror

Channel 4 bosses remain silent over calls to axe comedian Jimmy Carr after backlash

Channel 4 is reportedly not commenting about 8 Out of 10 Cats star Jimmy Carr's future after the comedian was slammed for making an 'evil' joke about the holocaust

Daily Mirror

Jimmy Carr's life, net worth and controversies as Holocaust joke condemned

Jimmy Carr recently landed in hot water once again for a joke said in his Netflix special 'His Dark Materials' about Romani Gypsies being killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust - here's a round up of some of his most controversial moments

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Whoopi Goldberg awkwardly demonstrates how the idea of race varies by place and changes over time

Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of ABC’s “The View,” set off a firestorm when she insisted on Jan. 31, 2022 that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Hands outstretched, she went on to describe the genocide as a conflict between “two white groups of people.”

Irish Mirror

Tommy Tiernan says Jimmy Carr shouldn't be 'hounded out of a job' over 'mistake'

Jimmy Carr said he's 'going down swinging' as he faces huge backlash over his Netflix joke about the murder of gypsies and the Holocaust

Daily Record

Scots council sorry after X-rated comment about Jimmy Carr Holocaust joke row

The comedian made offensive remarks about the killing of gypsies during the Holocaust in a Netflix show.

Evening Standard

Fresh Jimmy Carr row as it emerges comic wrote ‘dehumanising’ Holocaust joke in his book

The comedian had already been condemned by politicians for remarks made during his show

Salon

Experts: "Whoopi is not the enemy"

Salon spoke to Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau about race, "Maus" and where we should go from here

Daily Mirror

Gypsies invite Jimmy Carr to Auschwitz after 'disgusting' Holocaust joke

Comedian Jimmy Carr caused a storm of protest after making a 'joke' about the Gypsy community during his show for His Dark Material

Daily Mirror

"Nazis raped and killed my family in Roma Holocaust but Jimmy Carr thinks it's funny"

EXCLUSIVE: Daniela Abraham, 41, from London, has called on Jimmy Carr to publicly apologise and is offering to take him to Auschwitz concentration camp so he can pay his respects to victims of the Roma Holocaust

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