An ‘internal’ handout from the Buchenwald Memorial wrongly categorises several Palestinian symbols as ‘anti-Israel’. The document was also sent to court presidents in German states. The German debate about allegedly anti-Semitic depictions in Palestine solidarity has taken another turn: Two months ago, the Thuringian memorial to the former Buchenwald concentration camp produced a guide that […]
  • B-TR3E@feddit.orgEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Whatever. I don’t think philosemitism is really too extreme a position for a memorial site on the ground of a former extinction camp. They’re certainly not representing a neutral position.

    • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Yeah, sure… My understanding of philo-semitism really isn’t that it implies blind support for genocidal efforts, though.

      That being said, I was really just commenting on the word itself, not the news article.