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Words of the Week: Amy Schumer

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I’m grateful to Amy Schumer not only for the clip, but also for pointing everyone to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum page, which led me another brief film (of a different sort) that I recommend: https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/what-is-antisemitism/antisemitism-today.

Words of the Week: W.E.B. DuBois

by Erika Dreifus on
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“There has been no tragedy in modern times equal in its awful effects to the fight on the Jew in Germany. It is an attack on civilization comparable only to such horrors as the Spanish Inquisition and the African slave trade. Adolf Hitler hardly ever makes a speech today without belittling, blaming, or cursing Jews. Every misfortune of the world is in whole or in part blamed on Jews. There is a campaign of race prejudice which surpasses in vindictive cruelty and public insult anything I have ever seen, and I have seen much.”

Source: W.E.B. DuBois, quoted in the first episode of Ken Burns’s latest documentary, The United States and the Holocaust (beginning at 1:21:40). I did a bit of digging: DuBois wrote these words in 1936.

Words of the Week: Jonathan Greenblatt

by Erika Dreifus on
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“Anti-Zionism, in its current form, is not just the intellectual opposition to this idea. It is a belief system predicated on the negation of Jewish nationhood and the Jewish right to self-determination. These anti-Zionist groups deny the historic and spiritual connection that Jews have to the land of Israel and seek to de-legitimize and extinguish the existence of the world’s only Jewish state.

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