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OPINION - Antisemitic, nasty and hypocritical: this is the world on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2024

Source: PA Wire

is 24 hours of shame, but not in the way you think. It was designed to , and it falls on the day that Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet forces: January 27, in 1945. This is tragedy enough for the people, you might think, but HMD — I don’t mind giving it an acronym, it deserves one — has changed. It is now an annual festival for the abuse of living Jewish people and the denial of our

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