Rendition! Sung to the tune of "Tradition!" from Fiddler on the Roof: Consider a new Report from the U.N. Special Rapporteur (.pdf), submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council. The Report documents the key events that led to the degradation of human rights conventions around the world over the last ...

Making Money From the Nazis! It's been a dirty little secret, like so many from that war, but this new book lays out the case nicely: Black's new Nazi Nexus uses these earlier works as primary sources. But this new volume offers a compact and highly concentrated dose of history that powerfully demon...

Profiles in Courage Did you know that after the fall of France and before the US entered WWII, we had an American consulate to the Vichy French government? I didn't, but I learned that and a whole lot more in this story about the American consulate and his efforts to save thousands of French Jews fr...

Persecution Goes Way Back Hey, the Black Death too: "There is a very poignant edge as these two treasures were almost certainly buried by Jewish families at the time of the Black Death when Jews were used as a scapegoat," said Stephen Duffy of the Wallace Collection in central London. Among the high...

Ia Dr. Heim Really Dead? I admit to a continuing morbid fascination with the Holocaust, I suppose I am slowly morphing into Alvy Singer, the Woody Allen character from Annie Hall whose idea of a "date night" is to repeatedly watch the amazing film of the French Resistance and the Vichy French treatm...

Never Too Late For A Good 9/11 Conspiracy GW alerts me to this distressing news: One of the victims was Beverly Eckert, a Sept. 11 widow who was one of the most visible faces in the aftermath of the terror attacks. She was just at the White House last week with Obama as part of a meeting he had with...

Jews to Blame for Global Economic Crisis So say 31 percent of all Europeans: A recent survey conducted by the Anti-Defamation League found that anti-Semitic attitudes in seven European countries have worsened due to the global financial crisis and Israel's military actions against the Palestinians. ...

Pope Benedict Reverses Excommunication of Holocaust-Denying Bishop First he allows the revival of the prayer regarding where the souls of Jews will go (hint -- not upward), and now this: Pope Benedict on Saturday rehabilitated four traditionalist bishops who lead the far-right Society of Saint Pius ...

Dick Cheney Is A War Criminal And Must Be Prosecuted To Uphold The Rule of Law There, I said it. Any student of history knows that in the post-WWII aftermath, there was tremendous geopolitical pressure from British and American politicians to not prosecute German officers and leaders after the war. ...

$3.7 For A Virgin? This seems hard to believe: Natalie Dylan, 22, claims her offer of a one-night stand has persuaded 10,000 men to bid for sex with her. Last September, when her auction came to light, she had received bids up to £162,000 ($243,000) but since then interest in her has rocketed. The ...