Category Archives: Holocaust

Monday morning sniefs

Posted on 01/18/2010 by Meryl Yourish

(Snark briefs) The passing of a righteous woman: Miep Gies, the woman who helped shelter Anne Frank and who saved her diary from the Nazis, died last week. She did not think she was a hero. “Imagine young people would … Continue reading →

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Nighttime briefs

Posted on 01/14/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Interpreting the Times, so you don’t have to. Shorter Gail Collins: If only ten percent get to dictated American policy, then by Gaia, it had better be the ten percent that the elites (David Brooks’ “educated class“) are in! Smells … Continue reading →

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Demjanjuk the doubtful?

Posted on 12/04/2009 by Soccerdad

At the end of a Bloomberg News report about the Demjanjuk trial in German, there’s a paragraph that reads: His death sentence and conviction were overturned by Israel’s Supreme Court in 1993, saying there was reasonable doubt that he served … Continue reading →

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Briefly

Posted on 09/18/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Germans to Israel: Shut up if you want Gilad Shalit to come home. To be fair, he wants all parties involved to shut up, but really—this is what the mediator thinks is a necessary ingredient to getting Hamas to release … Continue reading →

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Monday SNB

Posted on 08/31/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Hamas getting confident; shelling Israel again: More shells into Israel. But when mortars are fired from Gaza into Israel, the mainstream media doesn’t pick it up until Israel fires back. Hamas’ pre-emptive strike at the UN See if you can … Continue reading →

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Friday SNB

Posted on 08/28/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Reap what you sow dept.: A Saudi prince was injured by a terrorist who blew himself up on his way to meet with him. Don’t you just love how the AP talks about the prince spearheading the “aggressive” Saudi anti-terrorism … Continue reading →

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Must-read blog post of the week

Posted on 08/26/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Rachel Lucas’ visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau. I think this is something people really do forget about the extermination camps. The main image we all have of the camps is of the starving inmates at liberation in 1945, the piles of starved … Continue reading →

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The long-term damage of the Holocaust

Posted on 04/20/2009 by Meryl Yourish

How many Jews would there be in the world today if Hitler had not destroyed two-thirds of Europe’s Jews? Thirty-two million. If not for the Holocaust, there would be as many as 32 million Jews worldwide, instead of the current … Continue reading →

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The ad that launched EATAPETA Day: PETA’s still lying about it

Posted on 03/27/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Six years ago, on March 15th, we celebrated our first-ever Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day, in response to the offensive “Holocaust on Your Plate” ad campaign by PETA. If you haven’t heard by now, PETA has started yet … Continue reading →

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Kristallnacht

Posted on 11/10/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Remember. UPDATE: Interestingly, or perhaps not, this article on Kristallnacht featured on the Guardian’s Comment is Free has exactly zero comments. It’s true. The Brits don’t really give a damn about dead Jews. Only live Palestinians.

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No denying

Posted on 11/09/2008 by Soccerdad

Ynet and the Jerusalem Post reported on the recently found plans for Auschwitz. Elder of Ziyon emphasizes what it implies about the Germans. These are utterly ordinary architectural drawings, complete with cross-hatchings to symbolize where brickwork would be. People drew … Continue reading →

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Plans for Auschwitz discovered; Pat Buchanan in shock

Posted on 11/09/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Original plans for the Auschwitz death camps have been discovered in Germany. Original plans for the construction of the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz, including a gas chamber and crematorium, have been found in a Berlin apartment, a newspaper reported … Continue reading →

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Comics stars get serious

Posted on 08/12/2008 by Soccerdad

Comic giants, Stan Lee, Joe Kubert and Neal Addams have turned their attention to getting a woman’s paintings back from the Auschwitz museum. As all-star comic-book team-ups go, this one beats the first meeting of Superman and Spider-Man. Three of … Continue reading →

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Obama and the Holocaust myth

Posted on 07/23/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Obama is using the Holocaust to score rhetorical points. Mind you, he’s not the only person ever to have done so, but I’m calling bullshit on this quote: “I am always taken back to sort of the core question of … Continue reading →

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Ordinary evil

Posted on 07/14/2008 by Soccerdad

Rochus Misch is nostalgic about his former boss. Misch recalls: “He had a deep and quiet voice. There was no need to be scared if you made a mistake” His boss particularly enjoyed the parties thrown by his wife and … Continue reading →

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Pat Buchanan: Hitler’s Willing Prevaricator

Posted on 06/20/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Pat Buchanan is now blaming the Holocaust on Great Britain, indirectly at least. He says that yes, Hitler hated Jews, but no, he wasn’t going to destroy them. Britain made him do it. That Hitler was a rabid anti-Semite is … Continue reading →

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LBJ: A righteous Gentile

Posted on 05/29/2008 by Meryl Yourish

I didn’t know LBJ rescued Jews from the Holocaust. Unwilling to stand by idly while Nazi henchmen murdered the “People of the Book,” Johnson met with Jewish leaders and said simply, “We [must] do something to get Jews out of … Continue reading →

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They hate me! They really hate me!

Posted on 05/21/2008 by Meryl Yourish

The Jew-hating bastards on yet another Holocaust denial site (based in the U.K., there’s a surprise) have linked to one of my old teaching posts (and not in a good way). And they don’t like my No Israel-Bashing Zone policy, … Continue reading →

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A woman of valour

Posted on 05/12/2008 by Meryl Yourish

May her name be remembered. Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who organized the rescue of some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis and was later honored by Yad Vashem memorial, has died. Sendler’s daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, told The Associated … Continue reading →

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Never Again, defined by the Mossad

Posted on 05/02/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Uzi Arad, a former director of intelligence for the Mossad, has an op-ed in Ynet today that states exactly what I’ve been saying for decades: When Jews say “Never again,” we don’t mean that never again will the world commit … Continue reading →

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