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Prisoners standing during a roll call. Each wears a striped hat and uniform bearing colored, triangular badges and identification numbers. *''Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany, 1938-1941. [http://www.ushmm.org/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]

Stand With Us poster sends truly universal message – accidentally

Controversial poster juxtaposes Holocaust survivors with IDF soldiers. The only thing is, the Nazis’ victims in the picture are probably not Jewish. Ami Kaufman reported here on a tasteless Stand With Us poster, politicizing the memory of the Holocaust in order to support Israeli policy and the IDF. Here is the poster, and I urge…

By Noam Sheizaf March 30, 2013

IDF soldiers visiting Auschwitz (Photo: Whistling in the Dark/flickr)

Failure of death camp tours for IDF officers – a success?

For the past two decades or so, Israel has been on a feverish mission to send young people – all of them, if possible – to visit the death camps of Poland, to cement the notion that the Holocaust is the primary basis for Israel’s existence. I find this inherently problematic. It is even more…

By Dahlia Scheindlin January 29, 2012