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Names, Not Numbers

JL;DR SUMMARY Eliana Padwa reflects on the principle of viewing each individual as a name, not a number—a theme deeply rooted in Holocaust remembrance. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Israeli Palestinian ConflictHolocaustGazaHuman RightsHumanityYom HashoahGenocideActivismHolocaust MemoryNames Not Numbers

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"Thats why I and other Jerusalem based activists created a set of posters honoring Palestinians killed by Israeli aggression over the past eighteen months."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Last year, when I was first introduced to the Gazan website We Are Not Numbers, it immediately struck a chord."
Jerusalem, Palestinian Territories
"In East Jerusalem, Israeli police have decided that childrens books are incitement to terrorism."
United States
"In the United States, legal residents can be disappeared by the Trump Administration to concentration camps in other countries."

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