Is there good proof about the holocaust I could show deniars Yes. The Holocaust (the systematic, state-sponsored genocide of approximately six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1941 and 1945, along with millions of other victims) is one of the most thoroughly documented events in history. Evidence comes from multiple independent categories that converge: Nazi records, perpetrator admissions, survivor and bystander accounts, physical remains, demographic data, and contemporary Allied/neutral observations. Holocaust denial is not a serious historical position; it requires dismissing or misrepresenting this body of primary evidence.Primary documentary evidence from the Nazis themselvesOfficial orders and reports: The Wannsee Conference protocol (January 1942) records the bureaucratic coordination of the “Final Solution.” Heinrich Himmler’s Posen speeches (October 1943) openly discuss the extermination of Jews. Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) filed detailed daily/weekly reports (e.g., the Jäger Report) listing hundreds of thousands of shootings in the East. Camp records and correspondence: Auschwitz construction documents, Zyklon B delivery invoices, train deportation lists (Reichsbahn), and SS administrative files. Many were captured intact. Internal Nazi communications: Letters, telegrams, and diaries (including from Goebbels and other officials) refer to the killing process in coded but decipherable language, later clarified by the same authors. These are archived in places such as the German Federal Archives, the U.S. National Archives, and Yad Vashem.Perpetrator confessions and trial recordsAuschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss’s detailed memoirs and testimony describe the gas chambers, selection process, and scale of killings. Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem (1961) and his earlier interrogations provided operational details. Nuremberg Trials (1945–46) and subsequent trials produced thousands of pages of affidavits, cross-examinations, and captured documents from high-ranking SS, Wehrmacht, and civilian officials. Many defendants did not deny the killings occurred; they argued about responsibility or legality. Lower-level guards, drivers, and bureaucrats gave consistent accounts in later West German trials. Physical and forensic evidenceRemains of gas chambers, crematoria, and mass graves at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chelmno, Majdanek, and other sites. Some structures were partially demolished by the Nazis as the Allies advanced, but foundations, ventilation systems, cyanide residue traces, and aerial photos from the period remain. Mass graves in Eastern Europe (e.g., Babi Yar, Ponary) documented by Soviet and later forensic investigations, plus ongoing archaeological work. Personal effects, human hair, shoes, and other belongings recovered in enormous quantities at the camps. Eyewitness accountsTens of thousands of survivor testimonies collected by institutions such as the USC Shoah Foundation, Yad Vashem, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. These are consistent on core facts (deportations, selections, gassing, starvation, shootings) across different locations and languages. Accounts from non-Jewish prisoners, local civilians, railway workers, and resistance groups. Allied liberators’ reports, photographs, and films from camps such as Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and Buchenwald in 1945. Demographic and statistical evidencePre-war and post-war Jewish population figures in Europe show a catastrophic drop that cannot be explained by emigration or ordinary wartime deaths alone. Detailed community records, censuses, and Nazi census data align with the scale of the killings. Korherr Report (SS statistician Richard Korherr’s 1943 summary for Himmler) tracks the reduction in the Jewish population under German control. Contemporary external corroborationReports from the Polish underground, neutral diplomats, the Vatican, and some Red Cross observers reached the Allies during the war. Aerial reconnaissance photos of Auschwitz and other sites exist from 1944. Newspaper coverage and intelligence summaries in the U.S., Britain, and elsewhere while the events were ongoing. Reliable places to examine the evidence yourselfUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm.org) – extensive online archives, photos, documents, and teaching materials. Yad Vashem (yadvashem.org) – Israeli Holocaust memorial and research center with vast digitized collections. Nuremberg trial transcripts and exhibits (available via the Library of Congress and Avalon Project). Scholarly overviews: works by Raul Hilberg (The Destruction of the European Jews), Christopher Browning (Ordinary Men), Deborah Lipstadt, and the multi-volume The Holocaust by multiple historians drawing on the same primary sources. Denial arguments typically cherry-pick isolated anomalies, invent technical impossibilities that engineers and forensic experts have repeatedly refuted, or claim all the above sources are fabricated—an assertion that collapses under the sheer volume, consistency, and multi-national origin of the records. The evidence is not dependent on any single document or testimony.If you want specific primary documents, photos, trial excerpts, or links to particular archives to share, say which aspect (documents, camps, numbers, etc.) and I can point to publicly available examples.
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Any interesting things in berkeley talk concerning free speech Thought for 9s The most recent flashpoint is a virtual talk UC Berkeley’s Students for Justice in Palestine hosted on the evening of October 7, 2026, titled “Al-Aqsa Flood Anniversary Talks.” Speaker Mohamed Abdou (author of Islam and Anarchism, formerly at Columbia, and on a virtual “Death to the Akademy” tour) spoke to roughly 25 people.Abdou described the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack—which the group itself calls Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—as “one of the most glorious days.” He linked U.S. settlement and Indigenous history to the Palestinian cause, argued students are complicit by attending universities built on “stolen land,” and said: “There is no free Palestine until a free Turtle Island. That means destroying it.” He has previously written that he was “with the muqawamah (the resistance) be it Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad but up to a point.” Coverage and criticism also cite earlier remarks attributed to him telling students to “be proud of your hate for America.”Jewish student groups and organizations including the Jewish Student Union, AMCHA Initiative, and Combat Antisemitism Movement called the framing of the attack immoral or dangerous and asked the campus to deny him a platform. AMCHA explicitly said the event involved free speech, which it supports, while still flagging the rhetoric. UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof replied that the First Amendment protects the expression, while speech that constitutes harassment or discrimination on a protected category is not protected.That same day, Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky gave his annual Supreme Court talk at the Berkeley City Club. It included discussion of his recent book with UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman, Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult Times, which addresses protest rules, disruption, and government pressure on faculty speech after the Gaza war. In an August 2026 message to the law school, Chemerinsky restated an all-comers policy for student groups, time-place-manner limits, and the view that even protected speech can trigger institutional duties if it creates a hostile environment, while disruption of events will not be tolerated.
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A veteran is a person who served in the active military, naval, air, or space service and was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.Military DefinitionService: Full-time duty in a branch of the Armed Forces (such as the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard).Discharge: Separation from service under honorable conditions, meaning it was not a dishonorable discharge.Combat: Combat experience is not required to be a veteran; anyone who completed their required service time is included.Reserves and National Guard: Members of these branches qualify if they were called to federal active duty by presidential order.General DefinitionThe word also means a person who has long experience or a lot of skill in a specific job, field, or activity (such as a "political veteran").
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Gov. Gavin Newsom targets antisemitism in California schools with new law In signing the law, Newsom rebuffed objections from the state's main teachers union and others. Gavin Newsom sits with students in elementary school classroom. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a measure aiming to clamp down on antisemitism in schools on Tuesday. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP By Eric He 10/07/2025 04:06 PM EDT Updated: 10/07/2025 08:08 PM EDT Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed into law a controversial bill that aims to clamp down on antisemitism in schools, shrugging off objections by a powerful teachers union and others that it will restrict what teachers can say about Israel’s war in Gaza and other hot button topics. The bill, AB 715, cleared both chambers of the Legislature unanimously in votes that belied the tensions leading up to its passage in the final hours of legislative session earlier this month. During a last-minute hearing to debate the bill, the chair of an Assembly committee vented he was being forced to “choose between fighting antisemitism and supporting a bad policy bill that is opposed by every single education advocacy organization.” 00:00 02:00 Read More Newsom rejected such concerns and was unswayed by opposition from the California Teachers Association, a major force in state politics. He sided instead with the Jewish Legislative Caucus and leading Jewish organizations such as Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California, which had made the measure their only legislative priority for the year. In pushing for the bill, the groups cited a surge in antisemitic incidents in California and members recounted their own experiences, particularly amid the turmoil in the Middle East following Hamas’ attack on Israel two years ago. Tuesday marked the second anniversary of the attack. “At a time when antisemitism and bigotry are rising nationwide and globally, these laws make clear: our schools must be places of learning, not hate,” Newsom said in a statement. Much of the requirements in the law, which takes effect on January 1, are open to interpretation. Teachers must be “factually accurate” in lessons and adhere to unspecified “standards of professional responsibility,” while avoiding “advocacy, personal opinion, bias or partisanship.” It also creates an Office of Civil Rights within a state agency, which will include an “antisemitism prevention coordinator” to consult with school districts and advise lawmakers on preventing antisemitism in schools. Newsom on Tuesday also signed SB 48, a companion bill that creates four additional coordinator positions meant to guard against discrimination based on someone’s religious beliefs, race and ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation. The coordinator positions were part of a late deal the Jewish caucus made with other diversity caucuses, whose members objected to a bill focusing only on antisemitism. The two measures were contingent on the other passing. Despite that agreement, education groups, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other groups still urged Newsom to veto the bill. The ACLU, in a letter to the governor, claimed the measure contains “vague and overbroad provisions” that will restrict curriculum that is inclusive and historically relevant, create a chilling effect on students and teachers and invite lawsuits. The Council on American-Islamic Relations blasted the bill in a letter to Newsom as “especially harmful to the mental and emotional well-being of Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim youth,” saying AB 715 rendered their stories “invisible and even punishable, deepening feelings of isolation and alienation at a time when they most need affirmation and inclusion.” In a public message to the legislature explaining his decision to sign the law, Newsom called for follow-up legislation next year to address those concerns, noting that “representatives from the entire education ecosystem ... expressed deep commitment to the goals of the bill, along with urgent concerns about unintended consequences.” “Public schools play a foundational role in our democracy, and we must continue to make our schools safe learning environments for all students while fostering critical thinking skills in the context of challenging conversations,” Newsom said. David Goldberg, president of the California Teachers Association, highlighted Newsom’s comments on unintended consequences, calling them “significant.” “At a time when too many are seeking to attack academic freedom and weaponize public education, AB 715 would unfortunately arm ill-intentioned people with the ability to do so,” Goldberg said. Democratic Assemblymembers Rick Chavez Zbur and Dawn Addis, introduced the antisemitism measure in July after an earlier piece of legislation, which would have placed tight guardrails on curriculum for ethnic studies classes, was knocked down by the teachers union and other education groups. To drum up needed support for AB 715, Zbur and Addis agreed to major amendments during the last week of the legislative session, including the removal of language on what constitutes an “antisemitic learning environment.” David Bocarsly, executive director of JPAC, called the signing a “historic day for California’s Jewish community and for every child who has ever felt unsafe, unseen, or unwelcome at school.” “By signing AB 715, Governor Newsom has sent a clear and powerful message: antisemitism, like all forms of hate, has no place in our public schools, period,” Bocarsly said. “This law is more than policy – it is a promise that Jewish children, their families, and all students, deserve a great public education and classrooms free from hate and discrimination.” Watch: The Conversation Play Video1:40 Kevin O'Leary: US stake in Intel is 'waste of taxpayer dollars' Filed Under: California
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