A march took place Tuesday in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, featuring approximately 500 individuals, some carrying Nazi flags. The march was part of events organized by the Lithuanian Nationalist Youth Union. “This march is particularly offensive because it is taking place where locals and Nazis murdered more than 10,000 Jews in one day,” said Dovid Katz, a U.S.-born Jewish scholar who lives in Lithuania and monitors neo-Fascist groups there. Half a world away, the student senate at Stanford University in California approved a measure on Tuesday to “support divestment from corporations identified as complicit in human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine.” Bizarrely, an amendment to the resolution declared that it was not connected to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, affirming “both Palestinian and Israeli right to life, security and self-determination.” Read More
