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By Aaron Bandler
Jewish News Syndicate
Those who say that Gazans are “holocaust survivors,” having endured Israel’s defensive war against the Hamas terror organization, are to be “widely condemned,” according to Sara Bloomfield, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
“Falsely comparing the Holocaust to Israel’s response to Hamas’s terrorist attack is an outrageous weaponization of the genocide of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, who systematically murdered six million Jews,” Bloomfield told JNS. “It’s antisemitic, inaccurate, highly offensive and must be widely condemned.” Click here to continue reading.
(photo credits: from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Memorijalni muzej Jasenovac, Copyright: Agency Agreement (No Fees), Source Record ID: Collections: 2002.537.4; used with permission)
Related Information:
Read Things We Couldn’t Say, The Hiding Place, and Trapped in Hitler’s Hell (written by Holocaust survivors, published by LT) for 1st-hand accounts of the Holocaust.
