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Leading British historian Anthony Beevor has described a Ukrainian ban on his award-winning book Stalingrad as “utterly outrageous”.

The area where the Warsaw Ghetto was located could be eligible to be listed as a protected site.

The report, called “Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2017” and published by the ADL’s Centre on Extremism, found that ‘white supremacists and other far-right extremists were responsible for 59% of all extremist-related fatalities in the US in 2017, up dramatically from 20% in 2016.”

Mahmoud Abbas implied European Jews during the Holocaust chose to undergo “murder and slaughter” over emigration to British-held Palestine, and alleged that David Ben-Gurion imported Jews from Yemen and Iraq to the country against their will.

The Palestinian Central Council has authorised its executive committee and President Mahmoud Abbas to suspend recognition of Israel and stop security co-operation.

Lebanon’s authorities have ordered a ban on the movie “The Post” because of director Steven Spielberg’s associations with Israel.