with hatred, even after WW2, that they STILL refused to resettle their Jewish citizens. So is it any wonder that Europe once again finds itself in the midst of resurgent far-right populism, xenophobia, & venomous hatred of immigrants when they didn't confront a similar past?
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A disturbing thing about popular understanding of the Holocaust is viewing it as a purely German affair. In reality it was a European affair, a continent-wide crime where the Germans would not have had a fraction of their "success" without hordes of willing European collaborators
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This view is particularly harmful because it shifts responsibility and we end up viewing the Holocaust as some peculiar German industrial death machine, instead of what it was: An entire continent drunk on genocidal racism, filled with savage hatred towards the Other
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Uncomfortable forgotten fact is the IDF in '48, the Nakba IDF, had massive amounts of Holocaust survivors. They were there because when they attempted to return home in Europe they were pogromed by Europeans. They were left to languish in DP camps because Europeans were so filled
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& honeslty I find it very risible to see Europeans join hands with Zionist Jews in demonizing Arab immigrants bec "Haha! We are SO against antisemitism!" when the only reason this Jew is a zionist is because your ancestors tried to murder him in 1946 when he wanted to return home
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