![]() ![]() Those who care not just about Jewish history or the history of the Holocaust but about truth in all its forms, must function as canaries in the mine ones did, to guard against the spread of noxious fumes. See what Deborah Lipstadt, who simply must be approved as America’s special envoy to monitor antisemitism, wrote in 1993 in her seminal book, Denying the Holocaust: The dead canary is not warning us about the escalation of hate, but the degradation of truth. I will grant that.īut there is another aspect of the canary-in-coal-mine analogy that is quite valid. ![]() ![]() Why should hatred against Jews be condemned only because it portends other, supposedly more evil hatreds? Why should subsequent attacks on other groups be seen as an escalation? All hate is, or should be, equally vile – and it’s troubling that after the Colleyville synagogue attack, many people didn’t act that way. ![]()
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