Posts Tagged: Israel Holocaust
Mourning the Holocaust, but Celebrating Israel
JNS.org - At last week’s World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, Israel’s former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, himself a survivor, said he was incapable...
Rashida Tlaib’s ‘Calming Feeling’
I must admit that I was probably wrong when I suggested that the Tlaib/Omar Israel fiasco was likely just a light thunderstorm that would quickly...
An Open Letter to a Righteous Among the Nations Recipient
Dear Aleksandra Cybulska, I just read about your designation as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem-based Holocaust museum and research center. Heartfelt congratulations on...
Israel and the Meaning of ‘Never Again’
The Holocaust wasn’t perpetrated by a barbarian society in a distant past. It was perpetrated 70 years ago by the most advanced European country -- the country that...
Remembering the Holocaust, Forgetting the Survivors
This January 27, nations around the world will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the most horrific evil ever perpetrated upon humanity: the near destruction of Europe’s Jews. During a special...
Confronting the Politicization of the Holocaust
JNS.org - About a month ago, I wrote in this column about a group of British animal rights activists who employed Nazi imagery in a vicious...
Wielding the Holocaust Stick
JNS.org - In late November, radical protesters in London attacked a Jewish communal building. As they wrestled with police at the gates, they screamed abuse about...
Israel’s Independence Day: We Have a Lot to Celebrate
Last week, we commemorated the genocidal murder of 6 million Jews – the most barbaric episode in our 2,000 years of exile which was sporadically...
We Remember the Holocaust, But We Go On
During the Shoah, a darkness descended upon the earth the likes of which have rarely been seen in the history of humankind. Irrespective of how...
The Economist: ‘Israelis Seem Especially Susceptible to Hysteria’
A 2012 Economist article claimed that Israelis and their Prime Minister fear Iran because they suffer from Auschwitz complex -- a “ghetto mentality” evidently based on obsessing over past suffering...
The Sounds of Broken Glass: Reflections on Kristallnacht and Israel
JNS.org - This month, Jews around the world came together in synagogues, community centers, and schools to commemorate Kristallnacht — the night of broken glass. We do...
Palestinian Activist Given Platform, Money to Spew Hate in Cambridge, MA
Bassam Tamimi, the Palestinian propagandist who has made a name for himself by using his children as props in regular confrontations with Israeli soldiers, has...
Could a Jewish State Have Stopped the Holocaust? (REVIEW)
When Ambassador Yehuda Avner heard then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres address a large crowd on Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, he listened as Peres apologized to the six million Jews...
The New York Times’ Holocaust Blood Libel
In today's world, it is chic to use the Holocaust in order to promote your own agenda. And now it's being used by activists against...
