Dina Roberts’s Reviews > People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present > Status Update

“Nor could I announce, as every non-Jewish media outlet would expect, that these people whose hairstyles one dislikes are “canaries in the coal mine,” people whose fractured skulls we all ought to care about because they serve as a warning—because when Jews get murdered or maimed, it might be an ominous sign that actual people, people who wear athleisure, might later get attacked!”

“That the Holocaust drives home the importance of love is an idea, like the idea that Holocaust education prevents antisemitism, that seems entirely unobjectionable. It is entirely objectionable.”

“The idea was that people would come to these museums and learn what the world had done to the Jews, where hatred can lead. They would then stop hating Jews.”

“I think that devaluing rescuers who only do a little bit is a way for the person who does nothing to make himself feel less guilty,” he told me. I think that devaluing rescuers who only do a little bit is a way for the person who does nothing to make himself feel less guilty,” he told me.”

“If someone was in a position to choose whether to save person A or person B, shouldn’t whole societies have been in the position to reject the notion of genocide altogether? Why didn’t everyone become Denmark?”

I don’t think I agree with this quote: “None of this is a coincidence. Societies that accept Jews have flourished. Societies that reject Jews have withered, fading into history’s night.” Poland? Germany? Soviet Union? China?

“They were lured into a long game of appeasing and accommodating, giving up one inch after another of who they were in order to win that grand prize of being allowed to live.
Spoiler alert: they lost.”