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Holocaust denial on the rise in Eastern Europe
Tali Farkash
Published: 29.12.15, 16:50
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1. Wait untill Russia will annex these countries
Berk ,   Amsterdam   (12.29.15)
Putin cannot wait to do so.
2. Two options
Teacher ,   Hete   (12.29.15)
There are only two reasons for this one - there is greater power that constantly puts Judaism to the test and for whatever reason this will always continue to happen for reasons we may or may not ever know, two - humanity is gone and people have become too medicated and cruel.
3. the decades pass, and all fades
Cameron ,   USA   (12.29.15)
4. That‘s easy to understand.
Indi ,   London, UK   (12.29.15)
In Western Europe there are laws in place that forbid freedom of speech, as it pertains to ones opinion on the Holocaust. A person can be arrested and incarcerated for not going along with the official 6 million deaths Holocaust story. In Eastern Europe, the laws are not as strict, and people are able to speak their minds more freely on this subject. So much for democracy in the West. If you can‘t speak freely, you simply not free.
5. #4 Poor Indi
Benji ,   US   (12.30.15)
Unable to deny the Holocaust. I imagine you suffer every day but still manage to distort Jewish history.
6. No. 5, Poor Benji, the freedom to think,
Indi ,   London, UK   (12.30.15)
something you are obviously not use to, enables us to find out the truth of our reality. Jewish history is already distorted. Read the books , The Bible Unearthed‘ by Israel Finkelstein and ‘The Invention of the Jewish People‘ by Shlomo Sand.
7. #5:Indi is not so "poor" as you imagine.Soon he'll be living
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in a country where Holocaust denial will be the accepted norm & teaching across the system. If you suspect I'm being sarcastic & exaggerating you are mistaken. This is what's going to happen all over Europe and much sooner than Science Fiction predicted....
8. #7 Indi is not about Holocaust denial
Benji ,   US   (12.30.15)
Indi is about undercutting Jewish history which lays claim and roots to Israel. Indi can't change history but Indi clings to any piece of information, whether disputed or false, to use for a pro-Palestinian agenda. Indi has plenty of freedom but still complains because this approach has not helped the Palestinians one bit.
9. How?
Lia   (12.30.15)
How can you deny something that has happened? Holocaust isn't s myth or a biblical invention, it is a commititted genocide of six million Jews, Poles and Russians. It's like denying world war 2 altogether or any historical event whatsoever.
10. What is antisemitic about studying the holocaust and
James   (12.30.15)
correction factual errors, Everyday new facts are being found about a variety of human events. Why be locked into one narrative of the holocaust?
11. #6: "Poor Indi", you forgot to mention the Protocols!
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12. Speech forced Underground
CuriousDave ,   New York, USA   (01.21.17)
How convenient for you, that you can crawl under the skirt of the Internet to anonymously express your real feelings about Jews. In the USA our freedom of speech laws will draw you into the open where you will become much more transparent and where we at least have the choice of how to deal with you. In countries that suppress Holocaust denial or antisemitism you are fully protected from showimg your true colors.
13. Conflation, here we come!
CuriousDave ,   New York, USA   (01.21.17)
The six million figure is of Jews only, and, more importanly, it repsresents the extermination (Ausroettung) of 60% of the Jews of Europe, the highest percentage by far of any ehthnic or national group in Europe. There is evidence that the zNazis had planned to kill several million Polish people in the western portion of Poland to provide living space (Lebensraum) for overcrowded Germany, but there is no evidence that the Nazis killed (orplanned to kill) Russians in any kind of genocide. Stalinist Russia had, in fact, killed several million Ukrainians in the early 193os in what the Ukrainian people call the Holodomar - forced starvation.
14. Conflating "Revisionism" with Denial
CuriousDave ,   New York, USA   (01.21.17)
It's one thing to come up with new facts dealing with known and proven historical events (revisionism), It's a whole other story when you attempt to allege new facts or falsely claim a lack of facts to allege that the historical event never happened at all (denial).
15. Showing Your True Colors
CuriousDave ,   New York, USA   (01.21.17)
People who spell "holocaust" rather than "Holocaust" are well aware that they are spitting at the victims of the genocide against the Jews (not jews!) and can rightly be called antisemites. They are not studying the event at all. They are trying to come up with single-issue arguments that "prove" there was NO Holocaust. Just a few examples: at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the "No holes, no Holocaust" gambit; the World Almanac Jewish population gambit; the "no blue residue, no gas chamber" gambit; the oven capacity gambit; the four million dead at Auschwitz gambit -- and on and on.
16. Jews are the Perfect Scapegoat
CuriousDave ,   New York, NY   (01.21.17)
For almost 2000 years Jews have provided many countries around the globe with a perfect, unprotected minority group to blame for the disaster du jour, be it the black plague or the defeat of Germany in WWi. They are the only minority group with so dispersed a population. The creation of the new state of Israel has - at least for now - deprived those countries of their convenient punching bag, a situation made even more unpalatable for them as Israel has become a success story and its citizens have made significant contributions to the world in technology and in the sciences generally.
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