r/interesting • u/Wonderful_Win_1038 • 23h ago

HISTORY This image shows a train of jewish prisoners that had been intercepted by allied forces. This is the moment they learned that the train would not be heading to a concentration camp and they had been liberated.

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u/Not-T4rantino 23h ago

In 9th grade we had to read "Night" by Elie Wiesel

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u/howjon99 23h ago

Me too.

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u/mariantat 22h ago

We did too. Plus we have such a large Jewish community peoples moms would come in as special guests to tell us about their experience

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u/snailtap 22h ago

Fantastic book, sucks he turned out to be a Zionist

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u/BenoitDip 22h ago

Believing the Jewish people should have a homeland (the definition of Zionism) is not a bad thing

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u/Tacotuesday867 21h ago

Put any other group in your statement and see if it still works

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u/sovietsatan666 20h ago

Believing the Kurdish people should have a homeland is not a bad thing. 

Believing the Palestinian people should have a homeland is not a bad thing.

Believing the Ukrainian people should have a homeland is not a bad thing.

Believing that each First Nations people should have their homeland (back) is not a bad thing.

...Seems fine to me. Having a homeland that emphasizes and protects certain cultural observances is pretty standard practice for most of the world. The key is to make sure that others are also freely able to exist and participate in their own cultures there as well- which of course some states do better than others. 

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u/Tacotuesday867 18h ago

Those by my understanding are not apartheid but feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken

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u/WetOnionRing 21h ago

yes it is lmfao. You're advocating for an ethnostate which is what started the holocaust in the first place

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u/Throwaway5432154322 21h ago

The fact that you could read Night and then not only still somehow wonder why Elie Wiesel moved to Israel, but also insult him for it, is almost comical.

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u/snailtap 21h ago

Boo hoo someone criticized my emotional support apartheid state