Tag: Holocaust

A Modern-Day Holocaust: China’s Genocide of Uyghurs and Falun Gong Adherents

A genocide similar to the Nazi-led holocaust is unfolding yet again but in a different guise. After living through the state-sanctioned systematic murder of 6 million Jews at ghettos, and concentration and extermination camps, the world cried “never again.” However, despite the strong pledge, we are now living right in the middle of two modern-day…


The Pianist

This week I read a book (and later watched the corresponding movie) called “The Pianist.” This Holocaust memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman recounts the tragic sequence of events that led to the murder of his family, the ruin of his home, and the destruction of nations. Szpilman was part of a middle-class Jewish family living in…


Should the Real ‘Resistance’ Begin Now?

Commentary Literally within minutes of the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump, his opponents took to the streets declaring themselves “The Resistance.” Some of us, myself included, considered that an act of what the “woke” like to call “cultural appropriation,” indeed an extreme—I would even say obscene—one. CA is a term, many will recall, applied…