Word: holocaustic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shoah, the day when the world Jewish community mourns the slaughter of six million of their people at the hands of a nation possessed by hate. It is a day to remember, it is also a day to remember in the right context. The Holocaust, perhaps the most brutal expression of widespread race-hatred and genocide in history, deserves a place apart from the contemporary political debate...
...only does indiscriminate invocation of Third Reich imagery trivialize the evil of the Holocaust, it justifies injustice and often represents slander. The most egregious misuse of the Holocaust analogy is the comparison, on any level, of Jesse Jackson with Adolf Hitler...
...such allegations do more than illegitimately condemn Jackson; they also undermine the importance of the Holocaust. Himmelfarb, for example, was willing to invoke the slaughter of six million Jews to improve the prospects for his political party. I believe others use Holocaust imagery against Jackson to vent racist attitudes. If this continues, how can we avoid the Holocaust becoming a political football...
...Holocaust is also wrongly invoked by both extremes of the Palestinians homeland debate. Some far right political leaders interpret the Holocaust as a carte blanche for mass detentions, brutal beatings or even expulsion of Arabs from the territories. Since we suffered, the argument goes, no one can prevent us from making Palestinians suffer too. "Never again--and who cares what you think," wrote Meyer Kahane, the foremost exponent of this view, in The New York times...
Kahane's racism is in itself proof that some Jews have perverted the Holocaust to justify oppression. A related approach has infected many others who resist calls for a Palestinian homeland. They are so overwhelmed by the horror of the Holocaust that they can only think of Jews as victims, not oppressors...