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£25million Holocaust memorial to be built outside Parliament after ministers stepped in to override planning laws
A £25MILLION Holocaust memorial will be built outside Parliament after ministers stepped in to override planning laws.
The monument and education centre in Victoria Gardens has been slammed by residents and heritage groups who say it will ruin the green space.
And last year the High Court ruled it couldn’t go ahead.
Housing Secretary Michael Gove introduced a Bill to override historic laws stopping the large gold structure from being approved.
The minister insisted the monument will serve as an important reminder of the horrors of anti-Semitism.
He said: “As a nation, it is vital we learn from the past to build a future which is free from prejudice and hatred.
“This memorial will rightly sit at the heart of Westminster, alongside other great symbols of our democracy, and will act as an inspiration to the whole nation for generations to come.
“Today’s Bill is timely as the remaining survivors are becoming older and fewer in number, meaning it is vital that we push ahead with the Memorial – we owe it to the six million Jewish people who were murdered.”
Twitter is running ads next to tweets from Holocaust deniers
Twitter is running ads for companies including Nokia, The Wall Street Journal, and Mailchimp alongside tweets from Holocaust deniers, according to a report by nonprofit watchdog group Media Matters for America.
Media Matters reviewed five Twitter accounts belonging to neo-Nazis, antisemites, and Holocaust deniers and found that ads for prominent companies were being slotted next to tweets from the accounts. The reach of the five Twitter accounts, which include writers, a “pseudo-academic organization,” and white nationalist YouTubers, ranges from a couple thousand followers to tens of thousand.
All five of the accounts are subscribed to Twitter Blue, the subscription service that’s become one of Elon Musk’s main priorities since taking…
King Charles and Queen Consort pay respects and meet survivors to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
THE King and Queen Consort light candles to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
They were joined yesterday by Nazi concentration camp survivor Dr Martin Stern and Sudan genocide survivor Amouna Adam at Buckingham Palace.
King Charles and Queen Camilla light two candles at Buckingham Palace to mark Holocaust Memorial Day[/caption]
Joanna Lumley alongside Holocaust survivor Joan Salter and Rwandan genocide survivor Antoinette Mutabazi[/caption]
Charles, 75, said: “I hope this will be one way to remember all those poor people who had to suffer such horrors.”
Meanwhile, actress Dame Joanna Lumley, 76, was helped by Holocaust survivor Joan Salter, 82, among others to hand out candles at London’s Piccadilly Circus.
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in November 2005 establishing the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and chose January 27 – the day that Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops in 1945.
It commemorates the lives of the six million Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of others killed under Nazi persecution and during subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
Genocide is defined as an act which is committed with intent to destroy, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
It is the worst crime against humanity.
The term was coined in 1944 by a Jewish-Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin and combines the Greek word “genos” (race or tribe) and the Latin word “cide” (to kill).