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Contrary to what Israel's government would have everyone believe, criticism of Israel is not the same as anti-Semitism, Meyer writes. In fact: "...at present the only reason to expect a revival of dangerous anti-Semitism is Israel's increasingly reprehensible policies". Meyer encourages non-Jews to
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in 1943, and after his father succumbed to an illness on 15 May 1944, it was decided that there was no more reason to allow his widow
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I cannot help but hear echoes of the Nazi mythos of "blood and soil" in the rhetoric of settler fundamentalism which claims a sacred right to all the lands of biblical Judea and
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indoctrinate and inculcate loyalty to Israel against its enemies. He applied this to the
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Exaggerating the threat. Hitler was obsessed by the notion that Jews were planning to sweep
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Holocaust and likened the government of Israel to that of Nazi Germany. During the talk, Meyer said that "Judaism in Israel has been substituted by the Holocaust religion, whose high priest is
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survival there were non-existent. His correspondence with his parents while in exile during the war were published. The autobiography of his elder brother, Alfred, also dwells on their experiences during the war.
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country. It was not until this strategy turned out not to work that Hitler began to consider other solutions. Elements of this treatment were:
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convoy, and settled in Holland on his own. Their decision was made after Hajo was no longer permitted to attend school in the aftermath of
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96:German-Dutch
76:(2014-08-23)
1188:2014 deaths
1183:1924 births
1065:25 May 2010
1013:9 September
1003:Demotix.com
550:. Tribune,
478:Judeophobia
404:Elie Wiesel
93:Nationality
1177:Categories
1158:(in Dutch)
1139:28 January
699:2014 p.16.
500:References
399:Gaza Strip
276:GroenLinks
253:(NatLab).
179:Early life
146:Hajo Meyer
48:1924-08-12
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933:The Times
729:The Times
533:Citations
352:Holocaust
338:Applying
223:Auschwitz
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161:physicist
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1133:Archived
1079:Die Welt
938:1 August
384:Lectures
370:epigraph
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557:2 May
505:Notes
488:Death
378:Torah
344:Hamas
329:Purim
158:Dutch
1141:2024
1015:2016
940:2018
766:ISBN
669:2010
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282:Book
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