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Originally Posted by Arya Stark
Oh, and how can he be a Holocaust denier when he himself says his grand parents were killed in the holocaust?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yisroel_Dovid_Weiss
"Now maybe I can say that at the discussion of the holocaust, I may be the representative, the voice of the people who died in the holocaust because my grandparents died there. They were killed in Auschwitz. My parents were from Hungary. My father escaped and his parents remained. He wasn't able to get them out of Hungary and they died in Auschwitz as were other relatives and all the communities that they knew. So to say that they didn't die, to me you cannot say that. I am the living remnant of the people who died in the holocaust and I am here, I believe sent by God, to humbly say, simply to speak to the people here and say, 'You should know that the Jewish people died, and do not try to say that it did not happen. They did die!' There are people throughout the Jewish communities, still alive in their seventies and eighties and every one of them will tell you their stories. It is something which you can not refute, but that being said, it doesn't mean that the holocaust is a tool to use to oppress other people. [2]" |
Holocaust denier is one of those ultra-loaded terms like anti-semite that is often used to silence criticisms.
Because it's difficult to call a Rabbi an anti-semite with a straight face, 'self-loathing jew', 'radical leftist' or 'holocaust denier' is usually the go-to.