Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish liberal daily, has achieved a surprising success: it is being praised and quoted by right-wing websites. Well, maybe not the entire publication, but definitely the article by Rafał Bolanowski ‘Few Ukrainians at the Border Crossing in Medyka, Poland. Many from Cameroon, Pakistan, almost all males’, which has made headlines on the right-wing sphere of the Internet.

Coronavirus deniers and opponents to the vaccine claim that politicians are violating the Nuremberg Code through the introduction of vaccines and measures to curtail the pandemic. They are now calling for a “Nuremberg 2.0”. What do they mean by this and how are they trivialising Nazi crimes in the process?

Hate goes hand in hand with polarisation. This is nothing new: it was made obvious by Donald Trump’s election campaign and governance, how enmity can be created between certain social groups, and how this can lead to long-term fracturing of society. It is widely believed that Trump was influenced by the illiberal concept of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán. An electoral campaign is currently in full swing in Orbán’s homeland. Let us see how the illiberal state has been inciting hate to achieve political ends.

Ladino, also known as Judeo-Spanish, is a minority language mostly spoken by Sephardic Jews. El Amaneser is the only newspaper in the world written entirely in Ladino and its purpose is to keep the language alive.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is a good time to point out once again why comparing events surrounding the current coronavirus pandemic with the Holocaust or Nazi Germany is a poor idea. It’s necessary, too, given how many Covid deniers and vaccine opponents in Germany and Europe are willing to do just that.

It has been seventy-eight years after the Holocaust, and while some of the survivors are still with us to tell their stories, more and newer forms of Holocaust denial and distortion appear globally. Although Holocaust denial is not a new phenomenon, what is called Holocaust distortion is on the rise.  

Hardly surprising, yet still on the shelves: The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has finally taken the step of categorising the magazine Compact as “demonstrably extremist” with “clear far-right aspirations”. We take a closer look at the content found within Compact’s pages and how Jürgen Elsässer and his gang have positioned themselves as catalysts for various right-wing developments in Germany.

The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association has managed to remove 6, 317 items with fascist and antisemitic content through its cooperation with the major online sales platform Allegro.

The Tory MP Marcus Fysh made highly inappropriate comments about the pandemic restrictions on BBC Radio 5 Live comparing the coronavirus health passes to atrocities in Nazi Germany. The government should be in the frontline of combatting antisemitism and disinformation, not leading it.

A story published on Jelen Magazine and other news sites such as Telex.hu and 444.hu has prompted the resignation of Tamás Horváth, the editorial head recently appointed at Vasarnap, a Christian website partly financed by the Hungarian government.