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Why Israel should have little to do with Holocaust Remembrance Day

JL;DR SUMMARY Emily Tamkin argues that no single nation should be seen as the steward of 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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AuschwitzShoahSurvivorsHolocaust RemembrancePersecutionCommemorationStatelessnessNation StateGlobal Responsibility

Places mentioned

Israel
"authorities of Israel are the heirs of the remembrance of the Holocaust."
Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be arrested... if he went to Poland for a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz."
Birkenau, Lesser Poland, Poland
"80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army."
Russian Federation
"declined to invite officials from Russia to observe the official commemoration of Auschwitzs liberation."
Ukraine
"Russia has repeatedly and baselessly accused Ukraines leadership, including its Jewish president, of being Nazis."
Germany
"The Holocaust was a historic tragedy in which Germany invaded neighboring countries."
Egypt
"suggestion over the weekend that Palestinians leave Gaza for resettlement in Egypt or Jordan."
Jordan
"suggestion over the weekend that Palestinians leave Gaza for resettlement in Egypt or Jordan."
United States
"as former President Joe Biden put it in arguing for continued U.S. support of Israel."

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