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Karen Pollock Quotes

born 1974 United Kingdom

Karen Emma Pollock CBE (born May 1974) is a British writer, activist and chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET).

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The Labour Party Marxists guide to motions at the conference suggests that at least some of their supporters are party members.

We have elected Labour politicians suggesting that antisemitism has been "weaponised" – a suggestion that it is being used to promote some other agenda.

"Giving Holocaust victims and survivors a voice matters", The Times (27 January 2022)

Out of a Jewish community of 800 before the war, Roman was one of only four survivors from his town. He was alone in the world.

And when eventually the remnants of European Jewry were liberated from concentration camps and hiding places, you could be forgiven for believing that the flame of antisemitic hatred had burnt out.
Sadly, 85 years on, we know this is not true.

The seemingly endless book of victim names. The train tracks which brought the victims to their final destination. The gas chambers. Nothing can replace standing at this site, seeing the grotesque reality of the day-to-day function of an extermination camp.

The fact that Hitler and his party came to power from electoral obscurity within two years should serve as a warning just how quickly society can change, how quickly the abnormal can become normal and how the frustrations of a population can change from simmering discontent to a fully-fledged inferno of rage.

And the spread of these antisemitic conspiracies [on X/Twitter] is already having a harmful effect. A recent study published in the Economist found that one in five Americans aged 18-29 believe the Holocaust to be a myth. A different survey found that nearly a quarter of Dutch people born after 1980 similarly believe it to be a myth or the number of its victims to be greatly exaggerated.

I don't understand how it is acceptable to be handing out such disgusting literature outside Labour's conference quoting one of the 20th century's most notorious antisemites and architects of the Final Solution, Reinhard Heydrich.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karen Pollock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.