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fromThe Atlantic
17 hours agoHow Netanyahu Hurt America's Jews
The U.S.-Israel relationship is deteriorating, with rising anti-Israel sentiment affecting American Jews and political dynamics.
The Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era, dedicated to supporting research, learning, teaching and advocacy about the Holocaust and genocide.
The first attempts to send a humanitarian maritime flotilla during the genocide emerged in the spring of 2024, when an international civil coalition announced it was sending ships loaded with aid toward Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's naval blockade.
"This case represents addressing a broader harm caused by organized doxxing and harassment campaigns," said Laila Ali, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, emphasizing the need for accountability.
With the sounding of a siren at 8pm on Monday, Israel begins the commemoration of Memorial Day, remembering soldiers killed since the establishment of the first Jewish settlements in Palestine in 1860, through Israel's many wars with its neighbours and attacks on Palestinians, up to those who died enacting its genocide in Gaza.
At 12:15 p.m., an armed man named Ayman Mohamad Ghazali barreled a vehicle loaded with gasoline and fireworks into one of the temple's entrances and down a hallway, striking the director of security, Danny Phillips. Another security guard on duty acted quickly and stopped the attacker, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Marat Rivkin, 88, has only one photograph of himself with his mother from World War II. It was taken in 1941 at a Soviet train station, so he could get help finding her if they were separated. "My mother ran in and said, 'The war has begun.' I didn't know what she meant, but she was crying and told me and my grandmother to begin packing," Rivkin told Brooklyn reporter Hannah Kliger in Russian.