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The Holocaust was not just against Jews. It was about us.

JL;DR SUMMARY Leo Pearlman argues that the Holocaust's primary objective was the annihilation of Jews, and this targeted ideology persists today through modern antisemitism. 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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HolocaustJewish IdentityMedia RepresentationWarsaw Ghetto UprisingYom HashoahNazi IdeologyJewish RemembranceModern AntisemitismHistorical Continuity

Places mentioned

Oświęcim, Lesser Poland, Poland
"Auschwitz-Birkenau museum (photo: Lsma Artmane/Unsplash)"
Israel
"That day is Yom HaShoah (Israels Holocaust Day) and it exists because what was done to the Jews was not just part of history; it was the point of it."
Wales, United Kingdom
"In the UK today, the Green Party of England and Wales is pushing motions to define Zionism (the belief in Jewish self-determination) as a form of racism."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Because the 27th of Nissan was not chosen at random. It is anchored in the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising the moment when Jews, facing certain death, chose to fight back."
United States
"Just this weekend, our own national broadcaster, the BBC, chose to platform on its flagship news programme Tucker Carlson, a man who has repeatedly amplified the Great Replacement conspiracy theory"

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