Comments on: Quiet! They’re memorializing the Holocaust

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:13:04 +0000

Well, Mr. Derfner is correct. We should, instead, memorize the holocaust by reminding everybody how “Zionists ran the death camps” and how Gaza is “worse than Auschwitz”. This is what Ms. Berlin, of the “Free Gaza” movement, declares, and predictably Derfner rushed to her defense against those who “slander” her by showing the world what she wrote.

By: Albert Linder

Albert Linder — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:40:32 +0000

I am a survivor and you are grotesque in your imbecilic hatred of Israel and Jews.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:13:45 +0000

“These people obviously feel strongly about what they’re doing; what right do I have to judge them?”

None.

By: Schmok

Schmok — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 08:24:53 +0000

Birthright for the Diaspora and trips to Auschwitz for the jewish Israeli youth have one in common: both is used to produce a national feeling, a connection to Israel. But: It’s the same everywhere in the world. States shape their people and make them think that the ‘their” state is ‘special’ and the institution made especially for them. Pure Nationalism. Crying is the way, the goal is to produce ‘workers’ and ‘soldiers’, who place themselves into the service of the nation without recognicing that they turn the world upside down by doing it.

By: Erich

Erich — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:22:54 +0000

“And the rest of the world even picked up on it for their own tragedy entertainments” – don’t worry, it was not such an issue in Western Europe… so the outreach to the world was rather limited…

@Larry: “shtum” – is this the Yiddish word for “silent”? Interesting, it’s written “stumm” in contemporaneous German. By the way: interesting thoughts you develop here.

By: Aaron the Fascist Troll

Aaron the Fascist Troll — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:21:50 +0000

I liked Defamation, and I thought the Auschwitz part was pretty disturbing, too. Holocaust porn.

I just hope my kids don’t want to go on one of these crying vacations when they get to be that age, but they probably will because all their friends will go. Still, I don’t think the kids’ psyches are damaged. Auschwitz is just one more piece of a degraded entertainment culture.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:48:30 +0000

Aaron is right, this is very kitschy. I found the film “Defamation” extremely disturbing, these Auschwitz trips appear to be damaging the psyches of Israeli youth.

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:14:52 +0000

I like to call it the hollow cost. Or if you really want to get creative: The shoah must go on!

By: miker

miker — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:25:49 +0000

this will save someone some time someday…sigh

By: Aaron the Fascist Troll

Aaron the Fascist Troll — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:23:40 +0000

It’s not the Holocaust industry, it’s Holokitsch. The two are distinct phenomena.

Seems to me that Israeli Youth have a history of exporting bad taste to the world. Think of all the tasteless Youth kitsch after the Rabin assassination: the candles, the songs, sheesh, give me a break. And the rest of the world even picked up on it for their own tragedy entertainments. Anyway, I hope these tattoos don’t catch on with the diaspora.