Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're Jewish. This is both a furious and vulnerable message.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.
For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.
The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.
Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.
This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.
I believe Jews are compassionate people because of what we've suffered. We must not put that suffering onto others.
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