Kristallnacht in Lod?
Even if the events in Lod differed in some important respects from the pogroms in Nazi Germany, the behavior of the mobs in Lod should at least warrant a serious communal discussion about these issues.
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“It’s Kristallnacht in Lod!” declared the mayor of one of the Israeli cities hit hardest in this week’s Arab mob violence, referring to the infamous nationwide pogrom in Nazi Germany in 1938.
Partisans and pundits have not been shy about invoking Hitler or the Holocaust in their rhetorical salvos in recent years. So far, however, Mayor Yair Revivo of Lod seems to be alone in his particular characterization of the latest violence. Why has everyone else gone silent?
The Nazi s were obsessed with race. They suppressed dissent, controlled the dissemination of news and controlled culture. In 1933, the German Student Union started to burn books in an effort to align German arts and culture with Nazi ideas. Books of
By Beverly Van Buskirk, Lifestyles editor
LE MARS A Le Mars Community Middle School seventh grader has been selected as an alternate to the National History Day competition in June.
Ian DeRuyter advanced as a Junior Alternate in the Junior Historical Paper category for Nationals.
The competition was held virtually this year.
This years theme is Communication in History: The Key to Understanding.
DeRutyer said his topic was on propaganda during World War II. He titled his paper: Nazi Lies and American Truth: The Influence of Propaganda on World War II.
I chose this topic because I saw it on a list of recommended topics and I thought it would be interesting to research, DeRuyter said.
4 ways to work toward an anti-racist allyship
Advancing Racial Equality & Social Justice
4 ways to work toward an anti-racist allyship
By Engy Abdelkader
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Over the course of the last four years, the Trump administration’s policies, practices and rhetoric not only laid bare the deleterious effects of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance, but it also revealed the manner in which ideologies of oppression anti-Black racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia and anti-Asian racism may also overlap, intersect and interlock.
For example, what was initially understood as a Muslim travel ban eventually evolved into an African travel ban. The 2018 attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh by a white supremacist who killed 11 congregants and injured six others showed how anti-Semitism and Islamophobia intersected in the mind of the alleged killer who posted xenophobic screeds about both Jews and Muslims. Notably, the attacker believed tha