Poll: What do Americans know about the Holocaust? Some, not much
RNS A new poll suggests Americans know about the Holocaust, the genocidal campaign against European Jews, but they’re fuzzy on the details. Most Americans (69 per cent) know the Holocaust took place roughly between 1930 and 1950. And they know the Nazis created ghettos where Jews were forced to live (63 per cent). But knowledge […]
ESSAY: THE OLYMPICS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PLATFORM FOR PROTEST – BANNING HAND GESTURES AND KNEELING IGNORES THEIR HISTORY
Amid fears of protests at the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has brought in new regulations to prevent them. But, as DAVID ROWE, of the Western Sydney University, points out in this article first published on The Conversation, protests have long been part of Olympic history…