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UBS asks US judge to shield it from further investigation into Nazi bank accounts

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:34:00 +0000

Former Credit Suisse reached $1.25b settlement in 1999 over WWII-era crimes, is now resistant to handing over 150 documents it says are protected by attorney-client privilege

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Oscar-winning filmmaker moves to Israel and trains his lens on October 7 survivors

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:57:26 +0000

Richard Trank, who produced over a dozen films on Jewish and Israeli themes, feels there is 'a lot I can contribute' by settling in the Jewish state after decades in Los Angeles

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New documents shed light on ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele’s escape from Nazi Germany

Tue, 06 May 2025 16:30:31 +0000

Notorious German SS officer and physician of Auschwitz requested to travel from Argentina to West Germany in 1959 using his real name, sources reveal

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Argentina to declassify documents about Nazi ‘ratline’ escape routes after WWII

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:37:47 +0000

Following a promise by president Javier Milei last month, documents including banking and financial transactions will be publicly released

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Argentine president opening files on Nazi ‘ratlines’ that trafficked Eichmann, Mengele

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:50:32 +0000

Up to 10,000 Nazi war criminals fled Europe using these escape routes. Javier Milei pledges to declassify files related to how his country settled 5,000 of them

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Media mogul Ari Emanuel calls to oust Netanyahu, ‘extremist’ ministers

Fri, 24 May 2024 11:38:38 +0000

'Israel needs a wise and just leader,' Endeavor CEO tells Simon Wiesenthal Center gala, while also urging removal of far-right cabinet members who incite violence in West Bank

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South Africa’s shift on Israel: From Mandela-era acceptance to ‘genocide’ allegations

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:38:28 +0000

Unprecedented anti-Israel statements by the African nation's head appear to be part of a broader geopolitical shift, but the country's Jews report feeling safe and comfortable

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Canada’s parliament, Trudeau and Zelensky give inadvertent ovation to Nazi war veteran

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:21:31 +0000

Speaker apologizes to Jews worldwide for encouraging parliament to hail Yaroslav Hunka, 98, a volunteer fighter in a Waffen SS unit, as a 'Ukrainian and Canadian hero'

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Outcry over official Spanish definition of Jew as ‘greedy or usurious’ person

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:30:39 +0000

Over 20 Jewish groups from US and Spanish-speaking countries call on Spain’s linguistic authority to drop two antisemitic definitions from its dictionary

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Tree of Life rabbi says community can ‘begin to heal’ after shooter sentenced

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:56:17 +0000

US Jewish groups welcome sentencing for Robert Bowers and remember victims, though most refrain from applauding death penalty

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Tolerance Museum and Jerusalem Municipality turn new page, agree to work together

Tue, 02 May 2023 09:07:50 +0000

With court case behind them, mayor meets with museum co-chair Larry Mizel and will soon tour facility; city culture official to work directly with museum

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Jewish group blasts Credit Suisse for sacking investigators probing bank’s Nazi links

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:44:07 +0000

World Jewish Congress 'troubled' by 'abrupt' decision to fire Neil Barofsky and Ira Forman, tasked with exploring bank's alleged servicing of accounts belonging to Nazi officials

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Credit Suisse hindered internal probe into Nazi-linked accounts, US senators say

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 11:26:53 +0000

Ombudsman found 99 accounts of senior Nazi officials in Germany and members of Nazi-affiliated groups in Argentina before being 'inexplicably terminated,' according to report

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France 24 TV network suspends 4 journalists for alleged anti-Israel vitriol

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 05:30:23 +0000

One of the employees joked about Hitler having a barbecue with Jews, others called Palestinian attackers 'martyrs'

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‘Appalled’: US, Israel, Jewish groups slam UN official for past antisemitic rhetoric

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:47:45 +0000

Biden's antisemitism envoy, US and Israeli missions to UN and congresswoman among those decrying Palestinian rights investigator after ToI reveals 'Jewish lobby' comments from 2014

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