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  The use and abuse of the Holocaust: a new international pastime

  “So I was hiding out in the heap of dead bodies because in the last week when the crematoria didn’t function at all, the bodies were just building up higher and higher. So there I was at nighttime, in the daytime I was roaming around in the camp, and this is where I actually survived,…

  By Alex Zeldin

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  Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi | Trump has normalized bigotry. We must fight back.

  It feels like we have taken a giant step back in time. There is a palpable hatred and distrust in America for those who are different. If my parents were arriving in the U.S. today from India, how would they be treated? Would they be respected as global citizens or denigrated as “others”? With each…

  By Raja Krishnamoorthi Jan 23, 2020 | 3 min read
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  Russia is spreading lies about the Holocaust

  The 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp on January 27 will be marked with a ceremony at its gate, close to the ruins of gas chambers, crematoria and prisoners’ barracks. This anniversary may be the last one when some two hundred of the former camp prisoners will be able to come; with…

  By Dariusz Stola Jan 23, 2020 | 3 min read

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• Emily Tamkin We must rewrite the rulebook for fighting antisemitism — or conspiracists like Joe Kent will win the narrative wars

  

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  Holocaust education at my high school is atrocious. No wonder anti-Semitism is surging.

  On Wednesday, the Pew Research Center released a new study that examined what the American people know about the Holocaust. What they found was disappointing, but unfortunately, not surprising: While the majority of Americans have a baseline understanding of the Holocaust, many still have large gaps in knowledge — especially young people. Despite the fact…

  By Jack Elbaum Jan 22, 2020 | 3 min read
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  What if a woman can’t win the presidency?

  No matter how you slice it, the United States is a dinosaur when it comes to electing women to the highest office. Not only has the U.S. never elected a woman to serve as president, a woman has never served as vice president. Nor has a woman ever even temporarily become the head of state…

  By Issac J. Bailey Jan 22, 2020 | 4 min read
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  Letter | Palestinian leaders — not Zionism — are responsible for their people’s suffering

  Dear editor, In his recent op-ed, Muhammed Shehada paints a picture of the Palestinians being victimized by Zionism, when it is actually Arab leaders — including Palestinian leaders — who are the main cause of Palestinian suffering. Unfortunately for the Palestinian people, the narrative Bernie Sanders has accepted is not one that is going to…

  By Toby F. Block Jan 22, 2020 | 2 min read
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  I’m an Orthodox Jew who loved National Review – until they betrayed us

  I first became aware of National Review after I immigrated from Switzerland to the U.S. I caught a clip of the online editor Charlie Cooke in a masterful debate with Bill Maher on gun control. Switzerland is frequently cited as the most gun-friendly country in the world, second only to the U.S., so Cooke’s arguments…

  By Eliezer Brand Jan 22, 2020 | 4 min read
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  Young people are staggeringly ignorant about the Holocaust. It’s dangerous.

  On Wednesday, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany released the fourth in a series of studies on Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness — and the results are distressing. As Chair of the special task force for these country-by-country surveys, the latest one, conducted about Holocaust knowledge in France, provides a troubling glimpse into the…

  By Matthew Bronfman Jan 22, 2020 | 4 min read
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  Why do Palestinians love Bernie Sanders? He reconciles our narrative with the Zionist one

  The word Zionism is the subject of a lot of debate. For some, it refers to the survivalist belief in the state of Israel as a sanctuary from past horrors visited upon the Jewish people throughout history. To others it represents the nostalgic belief that Jews should have a right to a nation state in…

  By Muhammad Shehada Jan 20, 2020 | 5 min read
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  Your Partisanship Is Blinding You To The Truth About Iran

  Two weeks after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s foreign operations and the Qods Force, Iran’s political subversion unit, tensions are winding down. Despite doomsday predictions, Iran chose not to escalate violence further. The limited Iranian response came in the form of a barrage of missiles fired at U.S. bases in Iraq,…

  By Elizabeth Tsurkov Jan 17, 2020 | 4 min read
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  I Helped Found the Women’s March. Jewish Women Are Essential in 2020.

  My name is Carmen Perez. Three years ago I helped found the dynamic, intersectional movement that roared into being on January 21, 2017, the day of the largest mass protest in American history. The first Women’s March saw more than five million marchers of all backgrounds and gender identities come together for justice. It was…

  By Carmen Perez Jan 17, 2020 | 4 min read