Word: holocaustal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These lessons are important, but in the shadow of the Holocaust rather banal. They do not require the authority of Auschwitz. They follow easily enough from Soweto and Howard Beach, from Sarajevo and Nagorno-Karabakh...
...when victimhood carries high status, the Jews are much and grotesquely envied for having suffered the greatest crime in history. Hence the common attempt to universalize the Holocaust: "It was a war against the Jews, but it could have been against any other nation...
...this important? For the lessons one draws from the Holocaust. With the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, the air is full of lessons: lessons about man's capacity for evil, about the dangers of intolerance, about the redemptive power of democracy...
...found refuge and on whose success Jewish survival now depends. Anti-Zionists, however -- particularly those of the left -- discovered that while physically or morally arming those bent on the annihilation of Israel, they could pose as philo-Semites with a show of anti-Nazism and a nod to the Holocaust...
...cheap and perverse maneuver because the Nazis are dead and gone. It means nothing to oppose an enemy that is no more. It means everything to oppose a real set of enemies that would complete the Nazi project. The test of one's solidarity with the people of the Holocaust is whether one is prepared to help defend that people against the destroyers of today, not the destroyers of yesterday...