How the Amsterdam pogrom is—and isn’t—like Europe in the 1930s
"I think Europe will become Judenrein," said Abe Foxman, a Holocaust survivor who spent a half century as head of the ADL
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The incident was the latest act of vandalism linking Israel’s actions in Gaza to the Holocaust
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