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The nuns, my teachers, at Stella Maris, who blamed the Jews for the Holocaust, and the new self-proclaimed guardians against Islamophobia in progressive circles have something in common. Both manipulate misguided political responses aimed to silence. In seventh grade, I believed my oral book report on Adolf Eichmann’s role in the Holocaust would shed light on the danger and horror of unchecked anti Semitism. Naïvely I believed they would see where Jew hatred went if I reported the horror of Nazi Germany. Instead, before I even got back to my seat, I was assaulted by a classmate’s response, “Hitler built good roads for Germany.” I felt my heart sink. The teacher not only agreed, she added tha
