Auschwitz

Still from the play "Frekha Shem Yafe" (Frekha is a Beautiful Name), directed by Hana Vezana Grunwald. (photo: Annie Atedgi)

Can a Mizrahi girl fit into Israel’s national story?

I grew up in a place where my first name was nothing more than a word on my identification card. Where the Holocaust was something that didn’t belong to me. Where my story had no place. All because of my ethnicity. By Adi Sadaka Ever since I was a young girl and through my years growing…

By Cafe Gibraltar October 19, 2014

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Moderate Islam meets Auschwitz

It’s hard to think of more divisive activities in Palestinian society today. Regardless of whether one agrees with his actions, it is exceedingly rare to see someone publicly buck the fiercely dominant trends in Palestinian discourse. For nearly 40 years, Mohammed Dajani Daoudi has felt that something was wrong with Palestinian politics. In 1975, while…

By Dahlia Scheindlin April 16, 2014

Holocaust survivors arrive in Israel (GPO/CC BY NC SA 2.0)

In Israel, Holocaust obsession prevents real change

A new law punishing people for calling each other ‘Nazi’ makes clear that the Holocaust has became a tool used to keep us, the Jews, in a position of eternal victimhood – to blind us from seeing what is happing in Israel. That’s exactly what the right wing wants. By Nir Baram “Israel became boring,”…

By +972 Magazine February 12, 2014

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LISTEN: Israeli talk show hosts phone Auschwitz in prank call

Shay Goldstein and Dror Rafael are two guys with a morning radio show on 103FM. Thye’re kind of “out there”, but very, very popular. I used to listen to them quite a bit until I transferred my allegiance to their competition on 99FM, Tal Berman and Aviad Kisos. But today for some reason I was…

By Ami Kaufman June 20, 2012

IDF soldiers visiting Auschwitz (Photo: Whistling in the Dark/flickr)

Failure of death camp tours for IDF officers – a success?

For the past two decades or so, Israel has been on a feverish mission to send young people – all of them, if possible – to visit the death camps of Poland, to cement the notion that the Holocaust is the primary basis for Israel’s existence. I find this inherently problematic. It is even more…

By Dahlia Scheindlin January 29, 2012

Holocaust day: Prove that you are alive (updated)

I posted this item on my old blog a couple of years ago. I wanted to share it with 972’s readers as well April 24, 2009 – Tuesday was Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, and my sister visited the Yad Vashem site to go through the names of our relatives who died during the war.…

By Noam Sheizaf May 1, 2011