Man charged after alleged Nazi salute at hotel

A man has been charged after he allegedly performed a Nazi salute inside a Sydney hotel. Read more

Neo-Nazi guilty of salute feels no shame, considers appeal

A man who has become the first Victorian found guilty of performing the Nazi salute says he will continue to do the gesture but hopes police won’t see it. Read more

Ban on Nazi salute, symbols one step closer in Victoria

A Victorian ban on the Nazi salute is one step closer with legislation to be introduced to parliament. Read more

Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem welcomes Wollongong Council’s decision on donor’s Nazi past

Dr Efraim Zuroff, the Coordinator of  Simon Wiesenthal Centre Nazi war crimes research worldwide, has said the Centre welcomes the decision of the Wollongong City Council to remove the name of Nazi collaborator Bronius Sredersas from a room in the Wollongong Art Gallery dedicated to him. Read more

Nazi salutes, swastikas at Melbourne school

A Melbourne school principal has been accused of giving speeches endorsing Nazis, calling Jewish people subhuman and failing to protect his students from racial discrimination. Read more

Fred Nile shows support for the ban of Nazi symbols in NSW

The NSW Parliament’s Social Issues Committee has met to discuss the Display of Nazi Symbols Bill 2021. Read more

Amazon denounced for selling, streaming original Nazi-propaganda films

Americans Against Anti-Semitism has asked Amazon to remove from its platform more than 30 Nazi propaganda films that are available for purchase and streaming. Read more

Politicians slam Nazi graffiti dubbed on Premier’s image

Vandals have pasted an image of Victorian premier Daniel Andrews with a swastika on his forehead and with a Hitler moustache on a road sign in the suburb of Highett. Read more

Jewish NGO condemns ‘wholesale misappropriation’ of Holocaust amid outcry over US border policy

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a Jewish human rights NGO that teaches the lessons of the Nazi Holocaust, has denounced the “wholesale misappropriation” of the Holocaust amid on the ongoing outcry over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy of separating children from migrant parents at the U.S.-Mexico border…writes Sean Savage/JNS. Read more

The issue of Nazi-looted art

At an event in Berlin leading up to the 20^th anniversary of the Washington Principles, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder underscored the large gap between promised improvements in reference to Nazi-looted art and actual actions in Germany. Read more

Leave the symbols of Nazi persecution alone, Billy Joel

Billy Joel’s decision to sport a yellow star on the front and back of his jacket during a concert this week was a nod to history that the singer may not have been aware of…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Nazi insignia on sale in Victoria

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has condemned the sale of new Nazi armbands, emblazoned with the Nazi swastika, at a family market in the Victorian town of Ballarat. Read more

Nazi memorabilia on sale in Canberra

A Canberra auction house has come under fire for offering for sale Nazi memorabilia. Read more

Watch your rhetoric

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has stated its position on the use of rhetoric invoking the Nazi Party. Read more

Danby walks out of parliament

During yesterday’s  Question Time, the Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s  slur linking Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to Nazi Dr Goebbels, prompted Federal Labor MP Michael Danby  to walk out of Parliament. Read more

Saluting Hitler in Tosca

Imagine being Jewish and having to give the Nazi salute in front of hundreds of people. This is the discomfiting challenge faced by Sitiveni Talei in Opera Australia’s 2014 production of Tosca. Read more

Another obscene Israel analogy…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

For several decades now, Israel’s enemies have actively and willfully defamed the Jewish state by comparing its actions to the atrocities committed by the worst villains in recent history. Read more

Australia disappoints

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has released the initial findings of its twelfth Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals, which covers the period from April 1, 2012 until March 31, 2013 and awarded grades ranging from A (highest) to F to evaluate the efforts and results achieved by more than three dozen countries which were either the site of Nazi crimes or admitted Holocaust perpetrators after World War II. Australia scored an F and “the most disappointing result”. Read more

New Zealand’s Nazi Hunter

Did New Zealand give a home to genocidal killers? Wayne Stringer was New Zealand’s Nazi Hunter. He investigated 47 “displaced persons”, suspected of complicity in Nazi era war crimes, who came to New Zealand at the end of WW2. Read more