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One does not have to be super aware or super sensitive to realize that antisemitism is growing in the West in general and in America in particular. This development is particularly shocking to millions of Americans, including me, who grew up in what has been the least antisemitic country in the Western world.
As someone who was born in 1946 and thus grew up in a post-World War II America, I found it difficult to understand how the most educationally, medically and scientifically advanced country in the world (Germany) could have produced the Holocaust, the genocide of at least 6 million Jews. For many of us, the nightmarish reality of the Holocaust was reinforced by meeting and coming to know Jewish victims of the concentration camps with numbers tattooed on their arms and World War II veterans turned youth league coaches who had liberated death camps as teenagers and had been forever changed by the experience.
Honestly, most of us thought such virulent, unreasoning hatred could never take deep root in America. Shockingly, however, it has. We have witnessed physical and verbal violence against our Jewish citizens increase exponentially in the past decade. Frankly, if I had not witnessed it, I would not have believed what has happened on too many American university campuses and in too many American cities could have happened at the scale it has.
As Americans, we must speak out against this lethal and Satanic prejudice.
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As someone who was born in 1946 and thus grew up in a post-World War II America, I found it difficult to understand how the most educationally, medically and scientifically advanced country in the world (Germany) could have produced the Holocaust, the genocide of at least 6 million Jews. For many of us, the nightmarish reality of the Holocaust was reinforced by meeting and coming to know Jewish victims of the concentration camps with numbers tattooed on their arms and World War II veterans turned youth league coaches who had liberated death camps as teenagers and had been forever changed by the experience.
Honestly, most of us thought such virulent, unreasoning hatred could never take deep root in America. Shockingly, however, it has. We have witnessed physical and verbal violence against our Jewish citizens increase exponentially in the past decade. Frankly, if I had not witnessed it, I would not have believed what has happened on too many American university campuses and in too many American cities could have happened at the scale it has.
As Americans, we must speak out against this lethal and Satanic prejudice.
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How many cures for cancer did the world lose in the Holocaust?
How many Einsteins and Salks would the six million have produced
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