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Category Archives: Holocaust
Did The War on Hitler Cause the Holocaust?
The Jewish Libertarian blogs: Despite turning 180o on almost all of my historical perspectives, there are some establishment positions that, even for me, are hard to give up. Some of my reversals are well known to the readers of TJL. … Continue reading
The Israeli Mind: How the Israeli National Character Shapes Our World
By Alon Gratch: * [My father] started out working in an uncle’s appliance store, but business was so slow that pretty soon the uncle needed an out. He set the store on fire, collected insurance, and used that money to … Continue reading
JJ: Historian Timothy Snyder presents a provocative, new take on the Holocaust
Danielle Berrin conducts this interview: Yale historian Timothy Snyder is among the world’s leading scholars of Eastern Europe. Educated at Oxford, he is the author of five award-winning books, including the acclaimed “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,” about Nazi … Continue reading
JTA: Mindful of risks, European Jews urge aid to refugees
Nowhere in this story do I hear these pious Jewish leaders expressing concern about what a flood of Muslims into Europe will do to Europeans. All I hear is concern for the refugees and concern for Jews. But what about … Continue reading
LAT: More than seven decades later, Monaco apologizes for deporting Jews
From the Los Angeles Times: Monaco committed the “irreparable” injustice of deporting Jews to Nazi camps during World War II, Prince Albert II said Thursday in belated apology for the action 73 years ago that sent scores of residents and … Continue reading
Judaism: Love the Stranger Because You Were Once Strangers
The rabbi does not say anything about the Jewish state needing to do anything for these refugees. He doesn’t say anything about Jews needing to do anything for these refugees, beyond hectoring the goyim with obscene Holocaust parallels to admit … Continue reading
Should the Holocaust be the Moral Prism for all Questions About Diversity?
Steve Sailer writes: Muslim Mass Migration: Is It Good for the Jews? With Muslim terrorists committing anti-Semitic massacres in France and Denmark earlier this year, and Middle Eastern and African youths routinely harassing Jews on the street in European cities, … Continue reading
IBT: Holocaust victims’ traumas could be passed onto their children in DNA
Report. Mike writes: I thought for sure that Holocaust guilt and reparations would be ended after all the WWII survivors expired. But the efforts to extend Holocaust benefits is now gaining traction in a very creative way: epigenetics. Rather than … Continue reading
Is This Satire?
Jewish activists might be building a bridge too far here. From The Guardian: “Jewish activists in Scotland have started a campaign to support the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors across the world, saying the trauma of the extermination camps continues to … Continue reading
Much Of What Putin Does Seems To Correlate With The Rabbis
What Orthodox Jew would quibble with Putin’s restrictions on freedom of expression? What mainstream Jewish organization would not support criminalizing Holocaust denial? When free speech is good for the Jews, Jewish organizations push it. When it is bad for the … Continue reading