Norman Finkelstein and Avraham/Avram Burg have highlighted the dangers of constantly referring to the Holocaust/Shoah AND how doing so can cheapen and demean the event itself.
The largest Jewish community in the Middle East is in Iran, and the 25,000 Jews living there as full citizens is tangible proof that the state of Iran is not anti-semitic.
By a strange coincidence, Iranischestrasse was the location of the Jewish Hospital in Berlin where the Soviet Army found 800 Jews in 1945 as Daniel Silver details in his book "Refuge in Hell".
The situation in Israel-Iran relations today and the details of the Holocaust back then are complex, but comparing the two is simplistic and, in my personal opinion, degrades the experiences of the Jewish community in Nazi Germany. |
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