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Holocaust & post-Holocaust issues. Head of Education @TheAJR_. Kindertansport podcast producer/host. Delegate @TheIHRA. Bagels. He/Him. Views are my own.

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    Alex Maws‏ @AlexMaws 25 Jun 2019

    We can all agree that lazy Holocaust analogies are bad, but there is a huge grey area in which almost everyone in the remembrance world operates. We all refer to other events or ‘lessons’ of the Shoah. This gives permission to one & all to make their own subjective analogies. 1/

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      2. Alex Maws‏ @AlexMaws 25 Jun 2019

        This includes all of the major institutions/players who have condemned @AOC incl. many close friends and colleagues. I’m not looking to call them out, just to highlight that we all contribute to a double-standard. Let’s look at some examples… 2/

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      3. Alex Maws‏ @AlexMaws 25 Jun 2019

        Here’s the @SimonWiesenthal mission statement referring to hate, terrorism, human rights and dignity. 3/ http://www.wiesenthal.com/about/about-the-simon-wiesenthal-center/ …pic.twitter.com/EBzc4JPgkT

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      4. Alex Maws‏ @AlexMaws 25 Jun 2019

        Here’s @HolocaustMuseum Director Sara Bloomfield on the Holocaust as a cautionary tale, highlighting the vulnerabilities and fragility of societies. 4/ https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museum-director-sara-bloomfields-remarks-at-united-nations-holocaust-memori …pic.twitter.com/4MDsk0iFzM

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      5. Alex Maws‏ @AlexMaws 25 Jun 2019

        Here’s @RabbiShmuley World Values Network (purveyors of a full page ad in @NYTimes) definitely not taking exception to comparing a Syrian crematorium to a Nazi one. 5/ https://worldvalues.us/for-the-love-of-g-d-bomb-the-syrian-crematorium-now/ …pic.twitter.com/Jsu0oaqMqb

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      6. Alex Maws‏ @AlexMaws 25 Jun 2019

        My intention is not to fuel partisan or Jew vs. Jew bickering on this issue, but to say that this highlights a fundamental challenge in our field… 6/

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      7. Alex Maws‏ @AlexMaws 25 Jun 2019

        Do we want people to learn ‘from’ the Shoah, or just ‘about’ it? (Reasonable people can disagree on this.) The language we use very often leans in the ‘from’ direction. We often (rightly) use it to appeal to wide audiences and assert our enduring relevance. 7/

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      8. Alex Maws‏ @AlexMaws 25 Jun 2019

        But in doing so, we also lose control over what conclusions people reach about what exactly those lessons are. Sometimes we read examples that are patently absurd and offensive. They are worthy of our outrage. 👇 8/pic.twitter.com/PyWQUHR7Yl

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      9. Alex Maws‏ @AlexMaws 25 Jun 2019

        But I would suggest that this is not one of those & that piling on @AOC here is a bad look for our field. Maybe – given that it is us who opened the door to this in the first place – we might choose to pick our semantic battles more wisely? 9/

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      1. Tom Jackson‏ @teej63 26 Jun 2019
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        This is something which we (you might say "at last") are starting to discuss. This thread is a great contribution to that discussion.

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      1. Polly Fleming‏ @PollyFleming24 26 Jun 2019
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        Concentration camps operated in and outside the context of the Holocaust. AOC’s analogy isn’t necessarily a Holocaust analogy.

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