There has been speculation that @Heritage is distancing itself from @TuckerCarlson over the past 24 hours.

I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts: pic.twitter.com/F8bcxBIqKI

— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) October 30, 2025

Carlson's shift happened gradually – since Fox News showed him the door two years ago, he began sharpening his tone against Israel and adopted a voice perceived as "isolationist." At first, it was the friendly interview with Putin, then the conversation with Iran's president, and a sympathetic interview with antisemitic conservative commentator Candace Owens. Carlson called for revoking citizenship from anyone who served in the IDF, claimed 9/11 was an inside job, and strongly opposed all American aid to Israel in the war against Iran.

Last week, Carlson interviewed Nick Fuentes, a highly influential white nationalist streamer who doesn't shy from overt antisemitism, racism, and crude chauvinism. Fuentes is well known in American far-right circles, and regularly leads his supporters – the "Groyper Army" – in attacks on those perceived as too soft or too moderate. The man previously claimed Holocaust victim numbers are exaggerated, said women "want to be raped," and, after the recent election, published the slogan "your body, my choice," a parody of the pro-choice slogan.

In the interview with Carlson, he proudly admitted he "admires" Stalin, explained why fighting "organized global Jewry" is necessary, and contemptuously mocked Christian Israel supporters – Carlson's greatest "enemies" since he adopted his new line. The interview sparked outrage in the conservative Right – from Ted Cruz, who called Fuentes a "Nazi" to Ben Shapiro who condemned Carlson's silence. But then something nobody expected happened – Kevin Roberts, president of the prestigious Heritage Foundation, posted a video warmly defending his "close friend" Carlson. Roberts came out swinging against the "venomous coalition" attacking Carlson, and explained you can criticize Israel without being antisemitic – while using terms like "the globalist class" – a familiar antisemitic dog whistle.

No to Ben Shapiro
No to the neocons
No to dual citizens
No to Benjamin Netanyahu
No to cancel culture
No to genocide and ethnic cleansing
No to the Christ-hating Talmud
No to Greater Israel
No to our Jewish oligarchy

AMERICA FIRST. AMERICA FOREVER https://t.co/XwvzilknID

— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) November 3, 2025

The shock in American Jewry, especially the conservative community, was enormous – and to understand why, you need to know the Heritage Foundation's tremendous power. The foundation was founded in 1973 and has become the most influential conservative think tank in Washington, serving as an American counterpart to the Kohelet Forum, with an annual budget exceeding $100 million and employing hundreds of staff members. It shaped American government policy from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump and led "Project 2025," which sought to outline the incoming Trump administration's policy framework, quite successfully.

At a time when American Jews face unprecedented attacks from the far-right and far-left, what appeared as overt antisemitic currents penetrating Republican Party institutions shocked many. The response was immediate – eight Jewish organizations abandoned the foundation's "Project Esther," including the Coalition for Jewish Values and the Zionist Organization of America. The National Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, operating under foundation sponsorship, announced it was severing ties and moving to independent operation. Mort Klein, ZOA president, issued a clear ultimatum – if Roberts doesn't apologize, sever ties with Carlson, and resign, the organization will cease all cooperation.

Senator Ted Cruz called Fuentes a "Nazi" and described Carlson's silence, "If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool, and that their mission is to combat and defeat global Jewry, and you say nothing, then you are a coward and you are complicit in that evil."

Inside the institute itself, no less, a genuine internal revolt unfolded. Five members of the antisemitism task force resigned in protest, and Roberts' chief of staff "offered his resignation," which was quickly accepted. Wednesday saw a stormy employee meeting whose recording was leaked to the media, with veteran staff attacking Roberts with unprecedented sharpness. Roberts opened the meeting with an apology, "I made a mistake, I disappointed you and the institution. Period." He admitted the expression "venomous coalition" was "a terrible word choice, especially for our Jewish colleagues and friends," and promised to correct but not resign. "You showed staggering lack of courage and lack of judgment," senior researcher Amy Swearer told him, "I have no confidence in your leadership."

The leaked meeting recording reveals the depth of fury at the foundation. A veteran employee threw at Roberts, "Buckley (William F. Buckley, a founder of modern American conservatism) understood we must expel the crazies and purge the movement of antisemitism – that's what built American conservatism, and now we're reversing the entire process." Daniel Flesch, a Jew working at the institute's National Security Center, described "difficult days when the institution is unable to say out loud that Tucker is antisemitic, and we don't want to identify with him." One young female employee actually defended the video and claimed that, as a Catholic, "Christian Zionism" is heresy. A clear hint that, despite the strong reaction among most employees, even inside the foundation itself, the "civil war" – centered on the struggle over Israel – is seeping in.

The Heritage Foundation crisis is a symptom of a deeper rift in the American Right. On one side stand the veteran conservatives and traditional Israel supporters; on the other grows a new generation of isolationist populists who see Israel as a burden and supporting it as a betrayal of "America First."

Tucker Carlson explains why Zohran Mamdani is winning:

"That guy [Zohran Mamdani]  was the ONLY person in the New York City Mayor's debate to say he wanted to focus on New York City.  All the other candidates said, 'Israel.'

America is done with lsraeI
pic.twitter.com/qdIl7biu6a

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) October 29, 2025

Horseshoe theory speaks of a situation where extreme ends meet – and in today's America, they're meeting around shared open hatred of Israel, and in secret even more. For the vast majority of American Jews, who see Zionism and connection to Israel as a central component of their identity, these two horseshoe ends become a hammer and an anvil, with the Jewish community finding itself between them.

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Lawrence currently serves on Mylor Parish Council after winning his position without opposition earlier this year. The inflammatory footage was captured by anti-fascist activists from Cornwall Resists during a right-wing demonstration called the "Great British Strike" rally that took place in Truro on Saturday.

When questioned by activists about the existence of antisemitism, Lawrence responded "technically no" before launching into a series of historically inaccurate claims. Lawrence stated: "World Jewry declared war on Germany in the Second World War. They were bankrupting them from the Treaty of Versailles, they were blockading the food and everything. They were starving them out."

Really!! Dumbnut!!
Why did Hitler Murder 6000000++ JEWS!!
Peter Law...cos he felt like it!!Peter Lawrence told members of the anti-fascist group Cornwall Resists that, technically antisemitism, didn't exist, at a right wing "Great British Strike" rally. https://t.co/4UXhpLzEje

— Blackscorpion (@blackmamba526) May 28, 2025

The British Democrats representative continued with additional unfounded assertions. "The Jews, who are communist, were responsible for a lot of problems in the Weimar Republic, were frustrating the efforts of the restoration of the German people to have self-determination and to be ruled by the Germans," Lawrence claimed. He further declared: "Hitler didn't have a beef with the Jews. He just didn't want them to disrupt what was going on."

The paper reported that activists challenged Lawrence about Hitler's documented actions against Jewish populations during World War II. Lawrence responded by claiming: "I – and from what I've read and the revisionist historians who I have read cannot find a single order from Adolf Hitler calling for the execution of the Jews."

When directly questioned about his views regarding the Holocaust, Lawrence made the shocking statement: "The Holocaust has been massively over-exaggerated." Cornwall Resists condemned Lawrence for what they characterized as antisemitic rhetoric and Holocaust denial.

The British Democrats party issued a statement addressing the controversy surrounding their councilor's remarks. A spokesperson for the organization stated: "The focus of our party, along with our elected councilors, is to work in communities to improve the lives of British people, and we have been successful in winning elections at local government level. The most recent by-election we won was in Maidstone, Kent, on 8th May, 2025. Historians should be the ones to debate the past events, not political parties. The British Democrats advocate for a peaceful and positive nationalism to prevent and avoid human tragedies."

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Candace Owens, a prominent conservative media personality, has ignited controversy with recent remarks about World War II and the Holocaust, prompting swift backlash online.

In a YouTube episode titled, "Literally Hitler. Why Can't We Talk About Him?", Owens appeared to downplay the atrocities of Nazi Germany while criticizing the Allies' post-war actions. She questioned the taboo surrounding Hitler discussions, stating, "We have been indoctrinated and we actually know nothing about the person other than the fact that we must fear him."

Owens suggested that education about Nazi Germany is a form of indoctrination, comparing it to "Soviet tactics of introducing really heavy concepts to kids while their brains are developing because you want to traumatize them." She further claimed this was done to ensure compliance with a narrative portraying Hitler as "the greatest evil that's ever happened on earth, even though factually and statistically it is not. Why is he the most evil?"

She then made controversial assertions about Allied actions after World War II, claiming they "ethnically cleansed 12 million Germans... in the exact same [concentration] camps that we then transferred the Germans into so that we could mass kill them." She described the Holocaust as "an ethnic cleansing [that] almost took place," while asserting that the Allies "actually did [an ethnic cleansing]."

Candace Owens has completely lost her mind. Blinded by Jew hatred, she's not resorted to defending Hitler. https://t.co/bQqeGn9qM4

— Adam Milstein (@AdamMilstein) July 10, 2024

These statements drew sharp criticism from various public figures. Adam Milstein, a philanthropist, responded on X, saying, "Candace Owens has completely lost her mind. Blinded by Jew hatred, she's now resorted to defending Hitler." International human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky went further, accusing Owens of having "gone full-blown Neo-Nazi."

Owens also cast doubt on the well-documented medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, describing them as sounding like "bizarre propaganda." She said, "The idea that they just cut a human up and then sewed them back together. Why would you do that? Even if you're the most evil person in the world, that's a tremendous waste of time and supplies."

The Combat Antisemitism Movement responded to these comments on X, stating, "It is an established fact that SS officer Josef Mengele performed deadly experiments on Jewish twins during the Holocaust. Not 80 years later, Candace Owens tries to rewrite history by denying these depraved acts ever happened. Utterly repugnant." Adam Goldman, chief editor of the NYU Review, summed up the sentiment of many critics, saying it was "Hard to go much lower than this."

It is an established fact that SS officer Josef Mengele performed deadly experiments on Jewish twins during the Holocaust.

Not 80 years later, @RealCandaceO tries to rewrite history by denying these depraved acts ever happened.

Utterly repugnant. pic.twitter.com/1RdLn35wLm

— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) July 10, 2024

In her video, Owens drew comparisons between Nazi scientists and US institutions, mentioning the CIA and Planned Parenthood. She said, "We took all of those top Nazi scientists and we brought them to America. I wonder why we did that. Maybe for a little more experimentation. Have you ever heard of the CIA? If you think experimentation is unique to the Nazis, you need to wake up. You heard of Planned Parenthood? They literally tell you to abort your children if they have special needs."

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The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has launched #CancelHate, a digital initiative in which Holocaust survivors worldwide read antisemitic comments that proliferate widely on social media and respond.

Holocaust survivors are participating in the #CancelHate campaign to show hate will NOT win. Survivors who read the vile social media posts that deny the Holocaust are putting their discomfort aside to ensure generations understand the harm of unchecked hatred. #WordsMatter

This… pic.twitter.com/Gyf01KrJKR

— Claims Conference (@ClaimsCon) May 2, 2024

In stark videos, the survivors steel themselves to read slurs like "The Holocaust was a lie – Stop spreading misinformation" and "There were no gas chambers...I have the same goals as Hitler: Exile the Jews and keep their degeneracy out of society." They then counter with searing testimony validating the atrocities they endured and witnessed firsthand.

"I survived the Holocaust, but 13 members of my immediate family were murdered because they were Jewish," states Abe Foxman, a US survivor participating in #CancelHate. "Holocaust denial on social media isn't just another post...Posts that deny the Holocaust are hateful and deny the suffering of millions."  

The potency of the campaign lies in its undeniable truth emanating from the last remaining survivors. As Hedi Argent, a UK citizen, recounts, "My family was turned out of our home because we were Jews...17 members were murdered...The Holocaust did happen."

Their voices take on profound urgency amid studies showing Holocaust knowledge waning perilously among younger generations, leaving them vulnerable to distortions. Nearly half of US millennials and Gen Z report seeing denial rhetoric online, mirroring trends in other countries like the UK.

"I could never have imagined...Holocaust survivors confronting such a tremendous wave of denial and distortion, but sadly, that day is here," laments Greg Schneider of the Claims Conference. "We saw what unchecked hatred led to – words of hate and antisemitism sparked deportations, gas chambers, crematoria."  

In a world where social platforms enable hatred to spread unabated, this campaign harnesses survivors' firsthand experiences as an indomitable barrier against those seeking to rewrite the past. "Words matter," affirms German survivor Herbert Rubinstein. "Six million were murdered...I am fighting Holocaust denial with all my might and strength."

For 30 days, #CancelHate's videos will tell survivors' truths to those propagating revisionism and hate under the virtual cloak of anonymity. Their words serve as a defiant rallying cry for a world still susceptible to the dangerous consequences of allowing hate speech to go unchecked.

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A survivor of the terrible journey to Auschwitz remembered how the youngest wailed. There were 99 children squeezed amongst 751 adults gasping for air, crazed by thirst and hunger, aboard convoy No. 63 that departed Paris at 10 minutes past midday on Dec. 17, 1943.

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The 828 murdered at the death camp from that trainload alone included 3-year-old Francine Baur, her sister Myriam, 9, their brothers Antoine and Pierre, 6 and 10, and their parents Odette and André.

All born in France, their French citizenship proved worthless under France's wartime Vichy regime that teamed up with the country's Nazi occupiers and their extermination of Jews.

So when André Baur's great-nephew, a Paris mayor, was catching up on his Twitter feed recently and saw a claim reported in French media that Adolf Hitler's Vichy collaborators safeguarded France's Jews from the Holocaust, he was revolted. Worst still in the eyes of Ariel Weil, mayor of the French capital's city center, was that the debunked assertion came from a pretender for the French presidency who is himself Jewish.

That person is Eric Zemmour, a rabble-rousing television pundit and author with repeated convictions for hate speech who is finding fervent audiences for his anti-Islam, anti-immigration invective in the early stages of France's presidential race. He is packing auditoriums with paying crowds and filling supporters' heads with visions of a Trump-like leap from small screen to the presidential Elysee Palace when France votes in April.

Although not yet officially declared as a candidate, Zemmour has so far dictated the course and tenor of the campaign. With climbing poll numbers, now consistently in double digits, and a Trump-like knack for generating buzz – recent video of him pointing a sniper rifle at journalists is racking up millions of views – Zemmour is sucking airtime from declared contenders.

He has also destabilized them by hammering on about immigration and the mortal danger he says it poses to France, making it harder for mainstream rivals to steer campaign conversation back to themes – combating climate change, post-pandemic rebuilding, and suchlike – they want to focus on.

Zemmour is acting as a presidential contender in all but name. Supporters are soliciting funds and the backing from elected officials that candidates need to run. Shown the rifle at a security show by an exhibitor who said, "When you are president, Mr. Zemmour," he interjected, "Yes."

That is a horrifying scenario for French Jews who are appalled by Zemmour's sugarcoating of the Vichy regime that was led by World War I hero Marshal Philippe Petain. He was tried and sentenced to death at World War II's end, subsequently commuted to life imprisonment.

That Zemmour is himself a descendant of Berber Jews from Algeria, a family history he talks about proudly, deepened the hurt for Jews who lost relatives to the Holocaust.

"Just because he is Jewish, he is doing something that nobody else can do, and that is just disgusting," Weil told The Associated Press in an interview. "History is complicated but this is very simple: Petain did not protect the French Jews."

The frightened men, women, and children herded aboard convoy No. 63 swelled what, by World War II's end, became a shameful count of 74,182 Jews deported from France. Most were sent to their deaths in Auschwitz, in Nazi Germany-occupied Poland, where more than 1.1 million people perished.

A Paris court in February acquitted Zemmour on a charge of contesting crimes against humanity – illegal in France – for arguing in a 2019 television debate that Petain saved France's Jews from the Holocaust.

In its verdict, the court said the deportation of foreign and French Jews "was implemented with the active participation of the Vichy government, its officials, and its police." Zemmour's comments negated Petain's role in the extermination, the court added.

But in acquitting Zemmour, it said he'd spoken in the heat of the moment. It also noted that during the trial, Zemmour made a distinction between saying that "some French Jews" were saved (using the word "des" in French), which he maintained was true, and saying "the French Jews" were saved (using the French word "les"), a generality which he said he disavowed.

Yet last month, Zemmour employed "les" when expounding again on Vichy in another broadcast interview, saying: "I say that Vichy protected the French Jews and that it handed over the foreign Jews."

"It's abominable because these poor people died," he added.

Lawyers who contest his court acquittal plan to cite that interview as evidence when their appeal is heard in January.

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German neo-Nazi and Holocaust-denier Henry Hafenmayer's remains were recently buried in a plot that once held the remains of Jewish musicologist Max Friedlaender and which still features his gravestone.

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Hafenmayer was convicted for incitement after sending Holocaust-denying letters to public institutions, gaining him notoriety among extremists before his death at 48 years old.

The neo-Nazi's burial at the Protestant Stahnsdorf Southwestern Cemetery in Brandenburg, just outside of Berlin, was attended by dozens of far-right extremists, including Holocaust-denier and founder of a German terror group, Horst Mahler.

Friedlaender, who died when Hitler was in power in Berlin in 1934, was from a Jewish family but identified as "Protestant" in the burial registration slip. His cremated remains were moved to another plot in 1980, though the headstone was left and declared as a monument, said the BBC.

According to The Guardian, Hafenmayer's lawyer initially requested a central plot for the remains of the neo-Nazi, but it was rejected over fear that extremists would rally there – and a second request for Friedlaender's plot was granted because, stated the church, "everyone has a right to a final resting place."

After photos from the burial show Hafenmayer's urn placed on Friedlaender's headstone – which the extremists covered with a black cloth displaying his name and a quotation from John 8:32: "And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" – church authorities admitted that a "terrible mistake" was made that needs to be rectified.

Leah Floh, president of the Jewish community of Monchengladbach/Viersen in Western Germany, expressed to Jewish News Syndicate that such mistakes only exist in "antisemitic fairy tales," as the "Protestant church in Germany has big problems with Jews and especially Israel."

Likewise, German student Vanessa Maas, 22, who attends Maastricht University, told JNS that "the people who buried the ashes knew exactly what they were doing."

Originally from Trier, Germany, Maas is active in the Union of Jewish students in Germany and is currently undertaking an internship in Berlin, which involves monitoring and combating antisemitism in Germany.

"Above all," the student said, "this shows that antisemitism has arrived in the [mainstream] of society. … There must be more information about what antisemitism is, especially in official structures, and especially how it can be better prevented. It doesn't just come from the right, from the left and from elsewhere. No, antisemitism also comes from the middle and is often hidden," she maintained, suggesting that seminars and workshops about antisemitism are not being taken seriously enough in Germany.

Floh labeled the incident "a provocation of neo-Nazis" who believe "einmal Jude, immer Jude – once Jewish always Jewish" – and said that such a situation cannot be properly rectified.

"Is it possible to reanimate 6 million Jews and return them their lives?" she asked rhetorically. "Is it possible to return us our grandparents, who were killed in Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Babi Yar or even buried alive? Who knows and can understand Jewish heartache and tragedy? Of course, the church will check if the relocation of the ashes is possible and will try to find a dignified burial site. … But is it possible to solve it at all?"

The fact that the Protestant church allowed a neo-Nazi hero to be buried in the plot of a famous Jew is a "slap in the face and offense to all the Jewish people," she added, noting that antisemitism in Germany can very quickly become socially acceptable and even in fashion among all sectors of society.

"That is what we see and feel in Germany at the moment. It is dangerous, tragic and hard to stop," she said.

'It makes me angry and sad'

Indeed, in a recent survey initiated by the Action and Protection League, 22% of Germans were found to hold moderately antisemitic beliefs, while 6% were found to hold strongly antisemitic beliefs. One-quarter of Germans were found to believe that Jews exploit Holocaust victimhood for their own purposes.

According to the initiator of the European-wide antisemitism study, Rabbi Slomó Köves, while this represents a relatively low prejudice when viewed among other European countries, Germany has one of the highest rates of antisemitic attacks among the 16 European nations with large Jewish populations.

"I knew that the recent rise in antisemitism in Germany was dramatic, but I didn't expect to hear these high numbers," said Floh, who attended the presentation of the survey in Brussels on Oct. 12, together with other leaders of Jewish communities around Europe. "This makes the situation even more complicated and threatening."

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"It makes me angry and sad that something like that still happens in the 21st century," said Maas. "This is what is tolerated in Germany. In some ways, Germany does a lot in historical reappraisal; for instance, that it is part of the curriculum to learn about the Holocaust, but it is still far from being a champion in historical reappraisal, as it often claims."

Berlin's antisemitism official Samuel Salzborn reportedly filed a criminal complaint at the justice department, telling The Guardian: "It is obvious that right-wing extremists deliberately chose a Jewish grave in order to disturb the eternal peace through the internment of a Holocaust denier."

He added that "it must now be quickly examined how quickly the Holocaust-denier can be reburied to no longer disturb the dignified memory of Max Friedlaender."

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

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Historian Professor Deborah Lipstadt has been appointed to the post of US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.

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The Office to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism was created by Congress in 2004 to raise consciousness about the rising menace of antisemitism, and press governments and multilateral institutions to take action to safeguard vulnerable Jewish communities.

Lipstadt, the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, received the AJC Jewish Leadership Award in 2016 for being a "champion of the Jewish people and the rights and dignity of all people, guardian of historical truth and memory," noting that "your great dedication and ceaseless efforts inspire us all."

Her highly acclaimed book, Antisemitism Here and Now, published in 2019, is widely considered an essential primer on the age-old hatred of Jews.

In 1986, Lipstadt published Beyond Belief: The American Press & the Coming of the Holocaust 1933-1945, which documents how the American media ignored reports of the Holocaust and the events leading up to it. In Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1993), Lipstadt discussed Holocaust denier David Irving, who proceeded to sue her for libel. After a five-year-trial in London, the presiding court ruled in favor of Lipstadt in April 2000. She tells the story of the legal battle in her book History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving, which was made into a feature film, Denial, starring Rachel Weisz.

The American Jewish Committee welcomed the appointment of Lipstadt to the post on Friday, saying in a statement to the press that "The Biden administration has chosen wisely in appointing Deborah Lipstadt to fill this ambassadorial post."

"Professor Lipstadt is one of this country's, indeed the world's, foremost experts on modern antisemitism, its constant morphing and multiple sources, and the current challenges to confronting it," the AJC wrote, adding that the organization looked forward to "partnering to advance the envoy office's mission."

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A woman in Britain said to be a virulent antisemite has been found guilty of spreading offensive messages and material over the Internet and was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison by a magistrate court there.

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Reports say that Alison Chabloz, 57, who is known for promoting Holocaust denial, is expected to serve nine weeks in prison for violating the country's communications act after she promoted antisemitic rhetoric and ideas on the GAB social-media service in two interviews she did with far-right online sites.

GAB has been under fire for being utilized by far-right extremists.

"Today's verdict and sentence finally give the Jewish community justice and protection from someone who has made a vocation out of denying the Holocaust and baiting Jews. It also sends a clear message to those who might be tempted to go down the same path," said Stephen Silverman, director of investigations and enforcement at Campaign Against Antisemitism, in a statement. "This is not the end. Ms. Chabloz now faces even more serious charges on other matters that we have brought to the attention of the police. We will not rest until all antisemites like Alison Chabloz are behind bars, where they belong."

In 2018, Chabloz received a suspended sentence for singing songs that claimed the Holocaust was a "bunch of lies."

According to the Daily Mail, in issuing his ruling, District Judge Michael Snow told Chabloz: "I'm not sentencing you on the basis that you are antisemitic, I'm not sentencing you on the basis that you are a Holocaust denier. I'm sentencing you on the basis that on two separate occasions whilst subject to a suspended sentence, you participated in a radio program where you made grossly offensive comments.

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"The grossly offensive contributions by the defendant to both programs are insulting to members of a vulnerable community," continued Snow. "The need to protect that community from such gross offense is a pressing social need."

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

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Coordinated by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the #NoDenyingIt campaign uses Facebook itself to make the survivors' entreaties to Zuckerberg heard, posting one video per day urging him to remove Holocaust-denying groups, pages, and posts as hate speech. Videos will also be posted on Facebook-owned Instagram, as well as Twitter.

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Zuckerberg raised the ire of the Claims Conference and others with comments in 2018 to the tech website Recode that posts denying the Nazi annihilation of 6 million Jews would not necessarily be removed. He said he did not think Holocaust deniers were "intentionally" getting it wrong, and that as long as posts were not calling for harm or violence, even offensive content should be protected.

After an outcry, Zuckerberg, who is Jewish himself, clarified that while he personally found "Holocaust denial deeply offensive" he believed that "the best way to fight offensive bad speech is with good speech."

Since then, Facebook representatives have met with the Claims Conference but the group, which negotiates compensation payments from Germany for Holocaust victims, says Zuckerberg himself has refused to. The goal of the campaign is to get him to sit down with Holocaust survivors so that they can personally tell him their stories and make their case that denial violates Facebook's hate speech standards and should be removed.

"In Germany or in Austria people go to prison if they deny the Holocaust because they know it's a lie, it's libel," said Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz survivor who today lives in London and has recorded a message for Zuckerberg.

"How can somebody really doubt it? Where are the 6 million people? There are tens of thousands of photos taken by the Nazis themselves. They were proud of what they were doing. They don't deny it, they know they did it."

Schloss' family escaped before the war from Vienna to the Netherlands, where she became friends with Anne Frank, who lived nearby in Amsterdam and was the same age. After the German army overran the country, the Schloss and Frank families went into hiding but were discovered by the Nazis separately in 1944. The Schloss family was betrayed by a Dutch woman.

Schloss and her mother survived Auschwitz, but her father and brother were killed, while Otto Frank, Anne's father, was the only survivor of his immediate family and married Schloss' mother after the war. Otto Frank published his daughter's now-famous diary so that the world could hear her story. Schloss has written about her own story, is a frequent speaker and would like to tell Zuckerberg of her own experience.

"It was just every day, the chimneys were smoking, the smell of burning flesh," the 91-year-old told The Associated Press, adding that she had been separated from her mother and assumed she had been gassed.

"Can you imagine that feeling? I was 15 years old and I felt alone in the world and it was terrible."

Facebook said in a statement that it takes down Holocaust denial posts in countries where it is illegal, like Germany, France, and Poland, while in countries where it is not an offense, like the US and Britain, it is carefully monitored to determine whether it crosses the line into what is allowed.

"We take down any post that celebrates, defends, or attempts to justify the Holocaust," Facebook said. "The same goes for any content that mocks Holocaust victims, accuses victims of lying about the atrocities, spews hate, or advocates for violence against Jewish people in any way. Posts and articles that deny the Holocaust often violate one or more of these standards and are removed from Facebook."

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Earlier this month, a two-year audit of Facebook's civil rights record found "serious setbacks" that have marred the social network's progress on matters such as hate speech, misinformation, and bias. Zuckerberg is one of four CEOs of big tech firms who face a grilling by the US Congress on Wednesday over the way they dominate the market.

More than 500 companies on July 1 began an advertising boycott intended to pressure Facebook into taking a stronger stand against hate speech. The Claims Conference decided to launch its own campaign after concluding the boycott "doesn't seem to be making a dent," said Greg Schneider, the Claims Conference's executive vice president.

Several Holocaust denial groups have been identified on Facebook by the New York-based Anti-Defamation League, some hidden and most private.

On one, "Real World War 2 History," administrators are clearly aware of the fine line between what is and isn't allowed, listing among its rules that members must "avoid posts that feature grotesque cartoons that FB censors can construe as racist or hateful."

Another page, the "Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust," features regular posts of revisionist videos, including one from February in which the commentator says the Zyklon B gas used to kill Jews in Nazi death camps was actually employed to kill the lice that spread typhus, claiming "this chemical was used to improve the inmates' health and reduce, not increase, camp mortality."

Though not overtly advocating attacks, such postings are meant to "perpetuate a myth, anti-Semitic tropes that somehow Jews made this up in order to gain sympathy or political advantage" and could easily incite violence, Schneider said.

"The United Nations has acknowledged that Holocaust denial is a form of anti-Semitism, and of course anti-Semitism is hate speech," he said.

For Charlotte Knobloch, a prominent German Jewish leader who survived the Holocaust in hiding as a young girl and is participating in the campaign, it is particularly important for social media platforms to be vigilant about preventing denial because many in younger generations rely on them for information.

"They have a particular responsibility," the 87-year-old said.

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The Palm Beach Post first reported on Friday – citing email records obtained through a public-records request –that Spanish River Community High School principal William Latson told a mother of a student in April 2018 who sought to ensure that Holocaust education was a priority that "not everyone believes the Holocaust happened."

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The principal stressed that educators have "the role to be politically neutral."

"I can't say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee," he wrote.

In the wake of the revelation, the local officials said the principal would no longer serve in his position.

"It is out of an abundance of concern and respect for the students and staff of Spanish River Community High School that School District Administration has decided to reassign Principal William Latson effective immediately," the School District of Palm Beach County wrote in a statement.
Latson apologized in a statement to the Post: "I regret that the verbiage that I used when responding to an email message from a parent, one year ago, did not accurately reflect my professional and personal commitment to educating all students about the atrocities of the Holocaust."

"It is critical that, as a society, we hold dear the memory of the victims and hold fast to our commitment to counter anti-Semitism," he added.

Latson noted that the school teaches the Holocaust in English courses, alongside US history and world history classes, as an elective class and "in an annual assembly featuring a keynote speaker," according to the Post.

In a statement on Sunday, Palm Beach County school board chairman Frank Barbieri Jr. said that the board "is, and always has been, committed to teaching all students, in every grade level, a historically accurate Holocaust curriculum; one which leaves no room for erroneous revisions of fact or the scourge of anti-Semitism."

Latson is "being investigated at the highest levels of the District Administration," added Barbieri.

"Every generation must recognize, and learn from, the atrocities of the Holocaust's incomprehensible suffering and the enduring stain that it left on humankind," wrote Barbieri. "It is only through high-quality education, and thought-provoking conversations, that history won't repeat itself."

Matthew Levin, CEO of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, told NBC affiliate WPTV: "The Holocaust isn't a debatable point; it's not philosophical. I don't think that in this particular case that the principal is denying the Holocaust per se, but he's certainly asking questions that he should not be asking. It's not his job to do anything but teach the facts, and political correctness doesn't get in the way of the facts."

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

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