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Samizdata quote of the day – Stealing the Holocaust from the Jews

It still boggles my mind that people can talk about the Holocaust without saying the J-word. It’s like holding forth on the transatlantic slave trade and not once saying ‘people from Africa’. Or lamenting the nuking of Hiroshima and forgetting to mention Japanese people. And yet here we are, 80 years after the Shoah, surrounded by Jew-free yapping about that most calamitous event in history.

Brendan O’Neill

2 comments to Samizdata quote of the day – Stealing the Holocaust from the Jews

  • bobby b

    God, I’m tired of the “he didn’t specifically denounce X!” crap.

    It’s become purely a gotcha play. You won’t find many more-rabid supporters of Israel (and thus, I guess from what I’m told, Jews) than me, and I have no need to hear the recitation of the Roll of the Dead every time there’s a mention of the Holocaust.

    This must be proof that JD hates Jews, right?

  • ggeorge m weinberg

    One of these things is not like the others. If you’re going to lament the Japanese civilians killed by allied bombing why not the Germans also?

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