Concentration Camps
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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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News The Ocasio-Cortez Concentration Camp Debate, Explained
NEW YORK (JTA) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised a ruckus when she said detention centers holding undocumented immigrants on the southern border are “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 said Monday night in an Instagram Live video. “If…
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Fast Forward Ocasio-Cortez Compares Migrant Detention Centers To Concentration Camps
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed on Monday that the United States government was operating “concentration camps” on the U.S.-Mexico border, which critics said was insensitive to Holocaust survivors while defenders claimed the comparison was valid. During a livestreamed Instagram video, the freshman representative from New York decried the fact that some migrant children were being held…
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Culture How Four Women Told The World About The Nazis’ Medical Experiments
In January of 1943, four Polish political prisoners in Ravensbrück, a women-only Nazi concentration camp in northern Germany, wrote letters to their families. Inmates were allowed to write one letter per month, missives that the SS strictly censored. The four women escaped suspicion by banally describing life in the camps as pleasant. But in truth,…
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Opinion Jews Are Speaking Out Against China’s Ethnic Cleansing Of Muslims. Will It Help?
When a powerful nation interns at least a million Muslims in concentration camps in an effort to eradicate their culture and religion, is that a Jewish issue? And if so, what can and should be done? Because that is happening today. Today, the Chinese government is holding an estimated one to three million Muslim Uighurs…
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Fast Forward This German Band Dressed As Concentration Camp Prisoners
BERLIN (JTA) — A video by the German hard rockers Rammstein shows four band members dressed as concentration camp prisoners with nooses around their necks. A yellow star is visible on one of the striped uniforms. One Jewish leader among many condemning the video called it “immoral and reprehensible.” The video was posted this week on Twitter…
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The Schmooze A Fake Concentration Camp Was Recreated On A Turkish Movie Premiere’s Red Carpet
Red carpet movie premieres can be so formulaic — glamorous starlets walk on a rug as lightbulbs flash — yawn. What better way to break up the uniformity of a red carpet event than with men dressed in Nazi uniforms? Not to mention a simulated concentration camp, a few German Shepherds, and a pile of…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Denier Sentenced To Visit Concentration Camps
A former member of parliament in Belgium who was convicted of Holocaust denial has been ordered to visit concentration camps and write about his experiences as part of his punishment. Laurent Louis, who has been expelled from numerous political parties, was also fined $20,000 for his comments questioning the number of Jews killed in gas…
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