Jan 22, 2022 08:05 PM
Muslim community backlash made Samsung remove LGBT+ ad
https://www.ibtimes.com.au/backlash-made...ad-1786325
INTRO: Singapore’s conservative makeup seemingly coaxed Samsung into removing an advertisement depicting a Muslim mother with her drag-queen son. The electronics company said it “acknowledged [it has] fallen short in this instance,” removing the ad after retaliation on social media from Singapore’s sizeable Muslim community.
“We are aware of the feedback that one of our recent campaign films for our wearable products may be perceived as insensitive and offensive to some members of our local community,” the company said in a Facebook post. “We…have since removed the content from all public platforms.”
The commercial featured a Muslim woman receiving a message from her son, intended to publicize Samsung's new wearable technology such as smartwatches. "We will certainly be more mindful and thorough in considering all perspectives and viewpoints for our future marketing campaigns," Samsung added in their Facebook post... (MORE - details)
Experts express doubt that Anne Frank was betrayed by a Jewish notary
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/j...ish-notary
INTRO: Historians have voiced their scepticism about a book that has identified a Jewish notary as the prime suspect for the betrayal of Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis. The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan, based on research gathered by retired FBI detective Vince Pankoke was published on Tuesday by HarperCollins with some fanfare.
A CBS 60 Minutes programme on Sunday evening highlighted the book’s tentative findings which were widely covered in the media, including the Guardian.
But researchers have now raised doubts about the central theory that Arnold van den Bergh, who died of throat cancer in 1950, probably led the police to the Frank family’s hiding place above a canal-side warehouse in the Jordaan area of Amsterdam on 4 August 1944.
[...] The book, a result of a six-year investigation, suggests that van den Bergh, who acted as notary in the forced sale of works of art to prominent Nazis such as Hermann Göring, had been forced by risks to his own life to use addresses of hiding places as a form of life insurance for his family. Neither he nor his daughter were deported to the Nazi camps.
[...] Ronald Leopold, director of the Anne Frank House, praised the investigation but he also counselled against taking the findings as definitive... (MORE - missing details)
https://www.ibtimes.com.au/backlash-made...ad-1786325
INTRO: Singapore’s conservative makeup seemingly coaxed Samsung into removing an advertisement depicting a Muslim mother with her drag-queen son. The electronics company said it “acknowledged [it has] fallen short in this instance,” removing the ad after retaliation on social media from Singapore’s sizeable Muslim community.
“We are aware of the feedback that one of our recent campaign films for our wearable products may be perceived as insensitive and offensive to some members of our local community,” the company said in a Facebook post. “We…have since removed the content from all public platforms.”
The commercial featured a Muslim woman receiving a message from her son, intended to publicize Samsung's new wearable technology such as smartwatches. "We will certainly be more mindful and thorough in considering all perspectives and viewpoints for our future marketing campaigns," Samsung added in their Facebook post... (MORE - details)
Experts express doubt that Anne Frank was betrayed by a Jewish notary
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/j...ish-notary
INTRO: Historians have voiced their scepticism about a book that has identified a Jewish notary as the prime suspect for the betrayal of Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis. The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan, based on research gathered by retired FBI detective Vince Pankoke was published on Tuesday by HarperCollins with some fanfare.
A CBS 60 Minutes programme on Sunday evening highlighted the book’s tentative findings which were widely covered in the media, including the Guardian.
But researchers have now raised doubts about the central theory that Arnold van den Bergh, who died of throat cancer in 1950, probably led the police to the Frank family’s hiding place above a canal-side warehouse in the Jordaan area of Amsterdam on 4 August 1944.
[...] The book, a result of a six-year investigation, suggests that van den Bergh, who acted as notary in the forced sale of works of art to prominent Nazis such as Hermann Göring, had been forced by risks to his own life to use addresses of hiding places as a form of life insurance for his family. Neither he nor his daughter were deported to the Nazi camps.
[...] Ronald Leopold, director of the Anne Frank House, praised the investigation but he also counselled against taking the findings as definitive... (MORE - missing details)