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Holocaust museums in Muslim countries offer ray of hope amid rising antisemitism
January 28, 2025
As antisemitism surges globally in the wake of October 7, an unlikely phenomenon provides grounds for cautious optimism: the emergence and continued operation of Holocaust museums and exhibitions in Muslim-majority countries. A new report from Tel Aviv University’s Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry documents this development, highlighting how these institutions are working to combat Holocaust denial and antisemitic propaganda in parts of the world where such beliefs often flourish unchallenged. The report, titled “For a Righteous Cause,” examines three notable examples: Indonesia’s first Holocaust museum on the island of Sulawesi, a permanent Holocaust exhibition in Dubai, and two museums under construction in Albania. READ MORE
JNS Jonathan Tobin: Zero tolerance for empty words of Holocaust remembrance
This is just another example of how much of the world likes dead Jews but is utterly intolerant of live ones, who are prepared to fight for their rights and their existence. As proof of that, in many of these ceremonies, there will be not a word said about the Nazis of our own day who wish to fulfill Adolf Hitler’s goal of the genocide of the Jews. And by that, I don’t mean the hateful though small, isolated and politically powerless neo-Nazis that dwell in the fever swamps of the far right in Western societies. Instead, I’m referring to Hamas and other Islamist terror groups that have as their goal the destruction of the one Jewish state on the planet and the genocide of the more than 7 million Jews who live there.
NEW YORK POST Israeli mom dragged out of Holocaust memorial event for protesting Irish president’s Gaza remarks An Israeli mother of two was dragged out of a Holocaust Memorial Day event in Dublin on Sunday after protesting the Irish president’s mention of Gaza during his speech. Viral video of the event shows a woman grabbing Israeli Lior Tibet, 37, and forcibly removing her from Dublin’s Mansion House, where President Michael Higgins was giving his speech marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
ArchitectGuy on Israel 