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I think these explanations were very helpful and I agree with almost all the rules of the game. Again, Haaretz, congratulations. I would be very happy if there was a newspaper in Brazil approaching its excellence. I would like to express a single disagreement and I do not care whether this comment will be published or not. The disagreement concerning the prohibition of comparisons with Nazism and the Holocaust. I recognize that there is no equality with any current event. Cheer when you refer to another Holocaust, which means divergence with the ideology of the Holocaust as a unique event in human history. I know that even for Jews who do not work as the Holocaust industry (Norman Finkelstein), the issue is very sensitive and it could not be. I think, however, that the prohibition must be relativized. If it is true that we can not find anything that comes equal to it today, it found some facts that allow comparisons, facts indicative of trends, situations in which we can see again “The Serpent's Egg”. I think if made the analogy with balance and sobriety, without intention of offense, as an indication of similar behavior, the comparison should be allowed. If you are interested in discussing the subject, out of site, my email is wanderleytaylor@uol.com.br

Thank you. It is rare to hear from the moderators. Generally I think moderation is not strong enough to create a space for people who are quieter and more reflective, embracing contradictions and actually thinking. They/we stay away. Anyway, I disagree with a ban on discussion of the relation of current events to the past, whether it be the French Revolution or the direction that Germany took under the Nazis. As a Jew I consider it unavoidable to consider what happened in Europe then and to learn to think about it, to be interested in the stages societies go through when virulent forms of nationalism and racial prejudice become the norm. We consider the degradation of language (and sing the praises of for example Paul Celan who could resist 'the thousand darknesses of death bringing speech' in his poems). How can this legacy be kept alive if we are not allowed to compare? Or take the work of Jessica Benjamin, a popular contemporary psychologist, who builds in part on the work of the Frankfurt School, whose members analysed fascism having lived through that time, or Freud some of whose work is also a reflection on the Nazi rise to power. What a strange reversal if categories wrought from these experiences were to be prohibited. So many reason to be afraid of thinking.

Repeat the Marxist Euro/Arab talking points or don't bother commenting.