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  • More than 1,300 pogroms are estimated to have been perpetrated in the Ukraine alone following the Russian Revolution.
  • Contrary to popular anti-Semitic theories, the American newspaper, television, and movie industries are all dominated by non-Jewish owners, producers, and editors. Jewish members of the media are also not a monolith, and they often disagree with each other politically and personally.
  • Despite overwhelming physical evidence and testimony that Jews were targeted and that six million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust, about a fifth of Americans believe that the Holocaust may not have happened.

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Neo-Nazis protesting aid to Israel in 2002
Honoring the victims
Antisemitic graffito
Blocking the entrance of Jews
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Russian politician
Nicolas C. Paulescu
Romanian physiologist
Julius Streicher.
Julius Streicher
German politician
Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich
Russian politician
Frank, Hans
Hans Frank
German politician and jurist
Georg, Ritter von Schönerer
Austrian politician
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
French politician
Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln
English martyr
Adolf Stoecker
German politician
Gyula Gömbös
Hungarian premier
Otto Weininger
Austrian philosopher
Ernst Hasse
German nationalist
Arendt, Hannah
Hannah Arendt
American political scientist
Moritz Lazarus, 1892
Moritz Lazarus
Jewish philosopher and psychologist
Károly Eötvös
Hungarian writer, lawyer, and politician
Ilse Aichinger
Austrian author