Because The Moon Is Made Of White Cheese
Countering Holocaust denial will be a rising moral challenge for us in the years ahead

Lecturers at the International School of Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem were explicit in their observation to a lecture theatre ten years ago. It is for Jewish people to decide whether continental Europe is a safe place for Jewish populations to live in. Blithe assumptions about their security in modern day Europe are not for others to make. And Europe still did not feel safe for many Jewish people.
It was difficult to make out what people thought of this, as an attendee myself. Europe at the time looked safe and the scourge of Nazism a long way in the past. But then the audience was not Jewish. And since 2009, there have been critical developments. The emerging global economic crisis was making many redundant and dispossessing them of their homes. Yet few were thinking about the way it would roll out in the longer term.
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