1956 ⟶ Anti-Semitism in Poland
Antisemitism swept across Poland as part of a purge of Stali...
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💥 Miskolc Pogrom
🕊️ Southern Baptist Convention Resolution on Anti-Semitism
The Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution stating in part, "RESOLVED, That Communism, Fascism, political ecclesiasticism, and anti-Semitism are utterly contrary to the genius of our Baptist concept of freedom and spiritual values."⟶
United StatesReligious Anti-SemitismBaptistsAnti-CommunismPost-WarIdeologyPolitical Affiliations
United States🇵🇱 Anti-Semitism in Poland
Antisemitism swept across Poland as part of a purge of Stalinists.⟶
PolandAnti-SemitismStalinismPurgePost-warEastern EuropeCommunismJewish community
Poland🧠 Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act Controversy
The Alaska Mental health Enabling Act of 1956 (Public Law 84-830) was an Act of Congress passed to improve Mental health care in the United States territory of Alaska. It became the focus of a major political controversy after opponents nicknamed it the "Siberia Bill" and denounced it as being part of a communist plot to hospitalize and brainwash Americans. Campaigners asserted that it was part of an international Jewish, Roman Catholic or psychiatric conspiracy intended to establish United Nations-run concentration camps in the United States.⟶
Alaska Mental Health Enabling ActConspiracy theoriesAnti-SemitismCold WarCommunismPsychiatryUnited StatesPolitical controversy
United States🇵🇱 Polish Anti-Semitic Campaign Drives Jewish Emigration
State-supported anti-Semitism swept across Poland in 1968, not subsiding until 1971, by which time half of Poland's Jews had fled Poland.⟶
Anti-ZionismEmigrationPolandEastern EuropeCold WarState-sponsored antisemitismJewish exodus1960s
Poland🤝 Southern Baptist Convention's Resolution on Anti-Semitism
The Southern Baptist Convention passed a "Resolution On Anti-Semitism" stating in part, "Be it therefore RESOLVED, That the messengers at the 1981 Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Los Angeles, June 9–11, 1981, commend our Southern Baptist Convention leaders as they seek sincere friendship and meaningful dialogue with our Jewish neighbors."⟶
Anti-SemitismSouthern Baptist ConventionReligious DialogueInterfaith RelationsJewish Community1980sFriendshipChristianity
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