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Friday, July 28, 2023

Remembering what happens when Jews rely on others (Daled Amos)

By Daled AmosIf there was ever a time that Jews needed the help of the West, it was against Hitler.And we all know how that turned out.Put aside the refusal to bomb railroad tracks in order to slow down the transportation of Jews to their death in the concentration camps. And put aside how long it took countries to get together to make a united effort to save Jewish refugees...

A short history of "Arabs Threaten Jews" (not "Zionists")

I decided to do a quick search of headlines that said that Arabs threatened Jews.April 17, 1920: Arabs threaten to massacre all Jews of Palestine (which included many non-Zionists at the time.)March 14, 1925: Arabs threaten to attack Jews if they honor Balfour when he visits.August 11, 1925: Arabs threaten to massacre all Jews in Palestine again (even though the headline says...

The French reaction to Kristallnacht: Let's pretend to care about Jews while watching them suffer

Reading the contemporaneous newspaper coverage of Kristallnacht is overwhelming. While the story did not start out on the front pages, the coverage snowballed over the next few days as Nazi restrictions on Jews increased and editorials in newspapers expressed outrage.The outrage did not extend to doing a damn thing to help Jews in Germany, though.A French newspaper published...

1938: Columnist is sympathetic towards Jews in Germany - but not THAT sympathetic

Later this month, Ken Burns is releasing a documentary, The US and the Holocaust, on how the United States did not help Jews escape their doom. Here is one example of how some Americans thought on the eve of the Holocaust. William Bruckart was a moderately successful and influential columnist in the 1930s, who published a regular syndicated column called Washington...

Three minutes of color film footage of the Jews of Nasielsk, Poland, on the eve of the Holocaust (video)

In January, The New York Times wrote a story about a new documentary about the discovery and preservation of a remarkable color home movie.Glenn Kurtz found the film reel in a corner of his parents’ closet in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., in 2009. It was in a dented aluminum canister.Florida’s heat and humidity had nearly solidified the celluloid into a mass “like a hockey puck,”...

Great news for Yom HaShoah! There are no antisemites!

Tonight is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The usual reasons given for this day are so that we won't forget the evils of antisemitism, and we solemnly pledge "never again."Unfortunately, much of the world already has forgotten the lessons and support the rights of those who want to see it repeated.Today's antisemites who style themselves as being merely "anti-Zionist"...