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Category Archives: Holocaust
Did Indiscriminate Allied Bombing Of German Cities Lead To The Holocaust?
I’m watching episode four of the Netflix series Apocalypse: World War II and it suggests that mass Allied bombing of civilian targets in Germany in 1942 led to the Holocaust, but when I Google the topic, I can’t find an … Continue reading
Martin Van Creveld: How My Family Survived the Holocaust
Martin Van Creveld writes: How did your family survive the Holocaust? Is a question I have heard many, many times. So this week, instead of addressing the usual topics, let me say a few words about that. My maternal grandfather, … Continue reading
Why Did We Bomb Christian Serbs To Help Muslims?
Why did we bomb Serbs in the 1990s for expelling illegal alien Muslims to preserve their unique culture? General Wesley Clark, supreme commander of NATO from 1997 to 2000, said: “In the modern Europe there is no room for homogeneous … Continue reading
Simon Wiesenthal Center Policing Web, Gets Rid Content It Does Not Like Through Partnership With Google, Twitter, Facebook
Yahoo reports: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up efforts to combat online propaganda and recruiting by Islamic militants, but the Internet companies are doing it quietly to avoid the perception that they are helping the … Continue reading
Have You Learned The Lessons Of The Holocaust?
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is the principal symbol and “address” of American Jewry, our “epistle to the gentiles” about what it means to be Jewish. … Continue reading
Fox News: Son of Holocaust survivor: Don’t let Syrian refugees in to US
Fox News: The son of Holocaust survivors, Harry Maryles tells stories of his father hiding out in underground bunkers and his mother living off food scraps in a Polish forest for years to avoid the clutches of Hitler’s henchmen. So … Continue reading
Is The Holocaust Sacred?
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: “Holocaust envy” contends with “Holocaust possessiveness.” Claims by others that they have experienced genocide or a holocaust — claims that are indeed sometimes hyperbolic — are … Continue reading
Was The Holocaust Unique?
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: The most common Jewish response to the charge that Jews were intent on permanent possession of the gold medal in the Victimization Olympics has been to … Continue reading
Are Jews A Race?
Prior to the Holocaust, it was common for Jews to refer to themselves as a race. But with the Holocaust and the rise of Boasian anthropology, that has gone out of fashion, and educated Jews tend to take exception to … Continue reading
The Victimization Olympics
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …But the success of Jews in gaining permanent possession of center stage for their tragedy, and their equal success in making it the benchmark against which … Continue reading