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Fast Forward U.S. Holocaust Museum Repeats ‘Unequivocal’ Opposition To Holocaust Analogies
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum reiterated its “unequivocal” rejection of analogies to the Holocaust in the wake of debate about concentration camps sparked by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. The museum “unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary,” the museum said in a statement….
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Fast Forward AOC Declines Invitation To Tour Auschwitz With Holocaust Survivor
(JTA) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., declined the invitation of a Poland-born Holocaust survivor from New Jersey to tour Auschwitz together following her remarks about concentration camps. Edward Mosberg, 93, on Friday extended the invitation to the Democratic lawmaker. A week ago, Ocasio-Cortez touched off a heated debate in the media about her use of the term,…
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Fast Forward Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Invited By Holocaust Survivor To Tour Auschwitz
(JTA) — A Poland-born Holocaust survivor from New Jersey invited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to tour Auschwitz following her remarks about concentration camps. Edward Mosberg, 93, on Friday extended the invitation to the Democrat lawmaker who on Monday touched off a heated debate in the media about her use of the term, which is widely associated…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Tweets Link To Ocasio-Cortez To ‘Learn About Concentration Camps’
(JTA) — Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, had a response to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referring to migrant detention centers as “concentration camps.” “The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are,” the freshman New York Democrat had said Monday night in an Instagram Live video. “If that doesn’t…
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Opinion I’m A Latina Jew. My People Are In Concentration Camps Today – Just Like They Were During The Holocaust
My life is one of those classic American mixed kid stories. My mom is Latina and my dad is Jewish, so I grew up calling myself a “challah-peño.” Though I am Latina, I don’t speak Spanish natively. Many Latinx families from my mother’s generation coped with the pressures of xenophobia by assimilating linguistically. Because of…
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The Schmooze The AOC ‘Concentration Camp’ Debate Has Jews Divided. 18 Jews Weigh In.
Question: When is it appropriate to describe a detention center for immigrants as a concentration camp? Meta-question: Millions of Americans, including intellectuals, politicians, and religious leaders, are engaging in this discussion — what does that tell us about America? A fervent, raging discourse on this topic of naming immigrant and refugee detention camps has exploded…
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Culture We’re Arguing About Concentration Camps — But What Does The Term Really Mean?
The use of the phrase “concentration camp” has caused a firestorm on Twitter — this time because New York Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez on June 18 called detention centers at the U.S. border “concentration camps,” language that was swiftly criticized by Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney as demeaning the memory of the Holocaust. After Ocasio-Cortez said in…
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News Sanders Breaks With AOC Over ‘Concentration Camps’ As Debate Rages On
What is a concentration camp? Is describing detention camps for immigrants together with the phrase “Never again” acceptable? Do these references trivialize the mass slaughter that took place in the Nazi-era death camps? The use of these words by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in reference to the “brutalizing” of illegal immigrants in detention centers on the…
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