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“Never Again” We keep saying, as we already Forget

By Erik Zimerman On April 30, 2014 · Add Comment · In Joab's Men

The very connotation this piece’s title probably brought to you mind, illustrates perfectly the point it is meant to make. You expect another article complaining that we have forgotten the horrors, the unspeakable depths of depravity that man, more specifically the Germans, reached and inflicted on his fellow man, more specifically the Jews. That we should watch more Holocaust films, make sure we can still cry when we watch them (lest we doubt our own humanity), campaign more strongly against Holocaust deniers, decry with outrage at the first sight of intolerance and even nationalism and/or religious pride (since only “gay” pride is acceptable in modern society), make sure every gentile is taught continuously about the Holocaust, send more and more people on trips like the “March of the Living”, and of course keep shoving guilt in everyone’s face. Nothing could be further from the truth. Jewry today, and specifically American Jewry, have reduced the immensely rich heritage that is Judaism, and what it means to be a Jew, to the Holocaust. Being a Jew means that we were slaughtered during WWII, and being a good Jew means remembering it (or at least watching Schindler’s List). Furthermore, while trading thousands of [...]

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