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American Jews with Never Again Action demonstrate outside an ICE detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, July 1, 2019. (Gili Getz)

The American Jews invoking the Holocaust to talk about Trump’s migrant camps

In the face of dire conditions at U.S. border patrol facilities, many American Jews are increasingly unafraid to invoke their people’s history to warn against what may come next. Weeks after New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s comments comparing immigration detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border to concentration camps, reports of dire conditions at U.S. border patrol facilities continue to…

By Joshua Leifer July 10, 2019

Flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), President Donald Trump delivers his Joint Address to Congress at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., Tuesday February 28, 2017. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

In Trump’s America, the rabbinic voice is needed more than ever

President Trump’s comments regarding the Charlottesville violence revealed the yawning moral vacuum in the White House. Now is the time for rabbis to work tirelessly to bring peace, unity, and justice to all people in the United States. By Itamar Haritan Salem Pearce, a rabbinical student and senior organizer with T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human…

By +972 Magazine August 23, 2017

IDF Deputy Chief of General Staff Yair Golan, February 24, 2016, cropped. (Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv)

The deeper meaning of IDF general’s Holocaust comparison

The deputy IDF chief of staff came under a barrage of criticism for saying trends that prevailed in pre-WWII Europe can be seen in Israel today. But if Israelis took a minute to reflect on his comments, they would realize that they were more solemn than slanderous. Headlines in Israel are blaring this Holocaust Day…

By Dahlia Scheindlin May 5, 2016

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Palestinians in Bethlehem checkpoint trying to attend the Ramadan Friday prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, August 10, 2012 (Activestills)

Call it colonialism, call it occupation – just don’t call it ‘apartheid’

‘Apartheid’ is rapidly becoming the new political term of condemnation and delegitimization in international politics. But is it truly the best description of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians? By Thomas Mitchell Is apartheid an appropriate term to describe Israel’s occupation of the West Bank? In an article published on +972 late last year, Ran Greenstein argued…

By +972 Magazine May 5, 2014

Just a quick note before the word ‘Nazi’ is outlawed

Just a few days ago, the Israeli government approved a bill that would “impose penalties of up to six months in jail and a $25,000 fine for using the word ‘Nazi’ or Holocaust symbols for purposes other than teaching, documentation or research.” This wonderful infringement on my freedom of expression gave me the urge to…

By Ami Kaufman January 12, 2012

Holocaust exhibition in Nil'in (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Remembering, but not understanding, the Holocaust

By Amos Goldberg Originally published in Haaretz. The Holocaust has long since become a very dominant part of Jewish identity in Israel. Precisely for that reason, it is surprising that in this country historical knowledge about the Holocaust – to judge by the literature on the subject published in Hebrew – is among the most…

By +972 Magazine May 2, 2011

Why Nazi Germany references are banned on my blog

I have made up my mind to ban all Holocaust and/or Nazi Germany references on comments to my posts, for the following reasons: 1. Israel is not Nazi Germany. It’s not even close. I find the current political trends troubling, even dangerous, but this country is not engaged in a systematic, full-scale genocide, and since…

By Noam Sheizaf January 12, 2011