Posted on 07/01/2019 7:01:09 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
More than 300 scholars have signed onto an open letter urging the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to retract its statement that rejects comparisons between migrant detention facilities and concentration camps.
"The Museum’s decision to completely reject drawing any possible analogies to the Holocaust, or to the events leading up to it, is fundamentally ahistorical," the scholars write in a write in a letter letter published in The New York Review of Books. "It has the potential to inflict severe damage on the Museum’s ability to continue its role as a credible, leading global institution dedicated to Holocaust memory, Holocaust education, and research in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies."
The letter, which is addressed to museum director Sara J. Bloomfield, goes on to argue that the "very core of Holocaust education is to alert the public to dangerous developments that facilitate human rights violations and pain and suffering; pointing to similarities across time and space is essential for this task."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) last month sparked massive pushback after equating migrant detention facilities near the U.S.-Mexico border to concentration camps.
Many Republican lawmakers called for Ocasio-Cortez to apologize, though the freshman lawmaker has stood by her comments. She's said that she would never "apologize for calling these camps what they are."
The Holocaust Museum said in a statement at the time that it "unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary."
"The Museum further reiterates that a statement ascribed to a Museum staff historian regarding recent attempts to analogize the situation on the United States southern border to concentration camps in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s does not reflect the position of the Museum," it said on its website.
The Holocaust Museum did not immediate respond to a request for comment on the letter from The Hill.
The scholars take issue with the museum's stance, saying it represents a "radical position that is far removed from mainstream scholarship on the Holocaust and genocide."
"And it makes learning from the past almost impossible," the letter says, before concluding that it hopes the museum will continue to be a place from which the world can learn.
Nazi Germany erected concentration camps in the 1930s to hold Jewish people and other political prisoners under harsh conditions, ultimately killing millions.
President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration has led to the expansion of migrant detention centers along the southern border and has drawn scrutiny for overcrowded facilities.
Ocasio-Cortez on Monday was one of several Democratic lawmakers who visited a migrant detention facility as Customs and Border Protection faces criticism over the conditions to which detainees are exposed.
My grandpa was in there.
Concentration camps assured a slave labor supply to help in the Nazi war effort, even as the brutality of life inside the camps helped assure the ultimate goal of "extermination through labor."
Film shown as evidence at Nuremberg trial (compiled, edited by George Stevens):
https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.43452
If they didn't have the authority to make their books a requirement for their course or make a, "I'll require your book of you require mine" deal through a system of corrupt intermediaries, 95% would do just that, rot somewhere until they turned to powder.
Wonder how they define the word “scholar” ?
Scholars my ass!
These people are rabidly psychotic.
Martin Gilbert's Holocaust was an eye opener for me.
Buchenwald was equipped with a bear pit.
They always have to dig up 300 Actors, Scientists, Doctors, Mental Health Professionals, et al, to SEND A LETTER.
Communists never can do anything by themselves.
They always need a crowd.
F them.
“....Wonder how they define the word “scholar”?....”
The same way the define the word “professor”.
Libs destroy everything they touch....EVERYTHING.
They should all be confined to an insane asylum...not anywhere near education or government at all.
Thank you for putting up this list. What strikes me, is (Pardon my generalization) that a large number of these “scholars” have Jewish sounding names. Do these jews in name only, have any affinity with REAL jews, and their tragic history? Obviously not. And certainly no understanding of the difference between what REAL concentration camp prisoners endured, and what these voluntary parasites at our border “endure” . Blind. Totally blind. Deliberately so.
What a bunch of arrogant gits.
Yep.
so 300 anti-Semites who think the holocaust was no big deal, want holocaust survivors and museums to just shut up and accept the idiotic ridiculous comparison? What’s the saying? Go pound Sand!
It's NOT a concentration camp if you can leave anytime you want. Simply turn around and self deport! Go home. Gee I bet the NAZI's would have let the Jews do that in their concentration camps ... Right??
Scholars? ... Idiots!!
As I’ve been saying for years, the PC Revisionists have taken over university history departments. Academia - particularly liberal arts - is a cesspool of leftist dogma and groupthink.
The comparison Democratic imagination makes it entirely illogical and unwarranted. The Nazis segregated an undesired population of citizens born and belonging to the country by birth, to be eliminated by eradication.
The U. S. Federal government segregation of an unwanted population of aliens invading and propagating in this country, whose presence is to be terminated not by execution but by shipping the designees somewhere beyond our circumscribed national borders, and by erecting physical barriers to alien invasion to prevent the necessity of isolating and rejecting an epidemic of undesirable elements attempting to attain residency without qualifying for it.
This is not comparing oranges with tangerines, or even oranges with apples. Rather, it is more like likening peaches to cannon balls. There is no comparison other than that the sites of forced congregation of aliens were established for quite different reasons, on diverse distinctions, proposing to conduct operations for lawful humanitarian outcomes.
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