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Category Archives: Holocaust
Decoding Holocaust Denial
The Holocaust denial movement is not about facts. It’s about forming an alliance of dissidents. Holocaust denialists want to dismantle a “sacred center” and replace it with a rival alliance structure. This process is not about a profane disagreement over … Continue reading
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The Holocaust in American Life
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would read Peter Novick’s The Holocaust in American Life not primarily as a historical argument about the Holocaust’s meaning but as an analysis of how a historical memory became a central node in multiple overlapping alliance … Continue reading
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The Voyage Of The Damned
According to Wikipedia: In 1939, during the build-up to World War II, the St. Louis carried more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany intending to escape antisemitic persecution. The refugees first tried to disembark in Cuba but were denied … Continue reading
The Zone of Interest (2-25-24)
01:00 What if John Kerry went back in time to Auschwitzin 1944 and convinced the commandant not to gas and cremate Jews for the sake of the environment04:00 Auschwitz 07:20 Historian reviews The Zone of Interest, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsQgNyESaiE09:00 The Zone of … Continue reading
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Holocaust and Genocide Denial: A Contextual Perspective
Here are some highlights from this 2017 book: * While David Duke remains a committed Holocaust denier and anti-Semite,68 other prominent figures within white nationalism and ‘race realism’ either do not advocate denial or have openly queried its utility, despite … Continue reading
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The Israeli Mind: How the Israeli National Character Shapes Our World
Alon Gratch writes in this 2015 book: In one version, the victim continues to reexperience the traumatic event in nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety, the startle response, and so on, while in the other, he numbs himself to any feelings and withdraws … Continue reading
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Teaching The Holocaust
From the Claremont Review of Books: * I have observed substantial variations among schools in their approach to the Holocaust. Jewish schools are more likely to place the Holocaust in historical context by reviewing the long history of European anti-Semitism, … Continue reading
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Loving Putin Is The New Holocaust Denial (3-21-22)
00:00 Holocaust denial has long been the most socially deviant opinion you could offer 01:00 Dooovid joins the show 03:00 When you moralize the news, the IQ of the conversation goes down 05:00 The dominant narrative about the war in … Continue reading
Deconstructing Holocaust Denial With Graduate Student Matthew Ghobrial Cockerill
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The five year fight to imprison Holocaust denier Alison Chabloz (4-9-21)
00:00 ‘Our 5 year fight to imprison Holocaust denier Alison Chabloz’, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/our-five-year-fight-to-imprison-holocaust-denier-alison-chabloz/ 07:00 Did the Boomers ruin America? https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/did-the-boomers-ruin-america/ 10:00 Eric Weinstein on The Power Structure of Harvard Burying His Work, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1jTUhwWJYA 32:00 Claire Khaw joins 48:00 Who do you … Continue reading
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