Jewish students attacked at Auschwitz

[Dorienne]

Originally Posted by RudimentaryPeni

i hope no one takes this as all french people think this way. i am a jew, and im not nessesaraly mad at those people, just i feel they need to be educated.(Maybe thats why they were there) they obviously didnt get much from it. But we shouldn't look at france now in disgust, rather look at those two guys as ignorant. and other countries shouldnt look at america as a land of hate just because of some people that makes fun of other countries, not every one is like that here.

So now that i have made no sense, thats what i think.

No, I honestly think you make perfect sense. Just because two people from one country have a certain belief does not mean the whole country acts in that manner and thinks like that. I completely agree with you.
As for my opinion on this article, I think it's disgusting how these men behaved. I've studied the Holocaust for a couple of years now, and I'm partly Jewish (only on my father's side..long story), so I find this completely offensive and inappropriate. Either those men came to find Jews to verbally, possibly physically, attack, or they decided to have some fun with random people that came by, as Mike said.
All in all, I am purely disgusted.
--Dori

[Greg Needel]

i normally don't talk in the chit chat but this tread caught my attention as it hits me close to home. in 2000 i was fortunate to go on a trip called the march of the living which is a 2 week trip through Poland visiting concentration camps. i am Jewish and this experience was like none other in my whole life. now to the point. when we were at Majdanek my group experienced a similar act of hatred, we had a group of neo-nazi skin heads march on our group harassing us calling us pigs and dirty jews , screaming white power. it was one of the most intense moments in my entire life. I say moments because we has armed security with us and it was all over in less then a min. but the thing that came out of the experience to me was probably more exposure to the fact that there is still a large portion of the world who still feels that Hitler was right and still strives to compete his work. The whole purpose of this trip was education so that we would be able to share what we saw and become new survivors, making sure that people know the truth about what happened. I guess what i am trying to say is that even as terrible as this situation sounds it will probably one of the most important moments of their trip in the long run.

[Josh Hambright]

I dont even know where to start for my reply to this thread. Honestly all i can say is that reading this news story makes me sad and at the same time makes me all the more convicted to several causes that I've been active in.
Racism is something that lives in all of us weither or not we want to admit it or not. Its something that everyone must work within themselves to end. Its a horrible plauge that man kind has been dealing with ever since the beginning of time. Education is the only cure for it, ignorance is the main cause of it. Not that i am saying that all racists are ignorant, infact the truth is that most are far from it.
I disagree with what Greg said however about a large portion of the world still thinking that Hitler was right. I feel that only a small portion of the world agrees with Hitler, the majority of the people in the world see he was a fanatical madman, who really only cared about himself.
I could go on and on about this subject...but instead i'll post some links for you guys.
http://www.positiveyouthfoundation.org - Positive Youth Foundation, Great Group.
http://aralaf.mahost.org/ - The Anti-Racist Action Chapter in my Town
http://www.adl.org/ - Anti Defimation League
http://www.splcenter.org/ - Souther Poverty Law Center
http://www.aranet.org/ - Anti-Racist Action Website
Like i said education is the only way to battle back against racism, so check some of those links out and educate yourself

"Be Young, Have Fun, Fight Racism" - One of the ARA slogans.