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My letter to the editor of the Jewish Standard that was not published this week.

Then and Now

Dear Editor,

I enjoyed reading Bernard Mintz’s article, “Reflections of a Second-generation child of Holocaust survivors” in your January 29, 2021 issue.

He mentions the “dehumanization and loneliness” his parents experienced during the holocaust. He speaks about how “Poles would stand outside Jewish-owned stores and tell passersby not to shop there.” Is not the cancel culture of today – cancelling anyone who supports or supported President Trump and the Conservative agenda similar to what was done to the Jewish-owned stores in Poland? Bed, Bath and Beyond abandoned the “My Pillow” company for their support of Donald Trump. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are censoring ideas they don’t like – Conservative ideas. When Parler became a substitute to Facebook – by allowing free expression, they were de-platformed. When people call all Trump supporters “white supremacists”, “racists”, “insurrectionists” or “deplorables” – that is dehumanizing them.

Let us learn from history – it is known to repeat itself.

Rosalie Greenberg

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By Seth Lipsky
October 25, 2015

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did something important last week — he reminded the world that the Arab war against Israel is a continuation of the Nazis’ war against the Jews.

What an uproar greeted Netanyahu’s remarks. He made them Wednesday, when he suggested that it was the World War II-era mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who planted in Hitler’s mind the idea of exterminating the Jews.

Netanyahu was referring to an infamous meeting between the Mufti and Adolf Hitler in November 1941, two months before the Nazi ghouls gathered at a lakeside villa at Wannsee to plan the Final Solution.

“Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time,” Netanyahu told a Zionist conference last week. “He wanted to expel the Jew.” He said the mufti warned Hitler that if he merely expelled the Jews, they’d all go to Palestine.

“What should I do with them?” Hitler asked, according to Netanyahu’s account.

“Burn them,” the mufti supposedly responded.

The liberal pettifoggers are going crazy over this, claiming, with a straight face, that Netanyahu was giving a pass to the Führer. A “defense of Hitler,” is how it wasdescribed in a headline in the Forward. The White House suggested that Netanyahu was being “inflammatory.”

https://nypost.com/2015/10/25/netanyahu-right-to-point-out-parallels-between-nazis-and-arab-leaders/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow

“Cancel Culture”, Ominous Parallels in History

Netanyahu right to point out parallels between Nazis and Arab leaders