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Steven Avery's avatar

Yay Maddie - you took a little while - well done!

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I'm Jewish and an outspoken anti-Zionist. Your post makes me very uncomfortable. With all due respect, you're not the first person to study these numbers. The Holocaust figure - 6 million - has been analyzed, reanalyzed, and challenged before. The figure has also been substantiated countless times. Antisemitism is rooted in the contention that the Holocaust is a fiction and/or that the figure of six million is inflated. For argument's sake, let's say half that many Jews were exterminated. Is that less of a horror? We agree, I think, that a LOT of people were slaughtered for being Jewish. Concentration camps are real. I've seen them with my own eyes. And what about the other 6 million people who were killed because they were gay, "gypsies", etc. Do you think those numbers are inflated as well? Is your point that the figures were inflated for the purpose of creating Israel? I'm usually in agreement with everything you say. But given all the real antisemitism stirred up in large part because of the genocide in Gaza, this post at this time strikes me as troubling.

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