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|    14 Jul 23 20:04:56    |
      XPost: can.politics, soc.culture.jewish, alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic       XPost: talk.politics.misc       From: jdyoung1psychiatrist@gmail.com              A controversial ultra-Orthodox rabbi based in New York has said that       fewer that one million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, claiming       most of those counted among the usually cited figure of six million       were not Jewish according to rabbinical law.              In a video posted online, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi can be seen saying that       high assimilation rates in pre-war Europe and broad Nazi definitions       have exaggerated the numbers of Jews recorded as killed by the Nazis       during the Holocaust. At least five million of the six million were       “total goyim,” Mizrachi told the crowd, adopting a Hebrew word for       non-Jews that many consider pejorative.              “The truth, I am telling you, is that not even one million Jews were       murdered,” Mizrachi said, trashing accepted historical accounts. “A       lot of non-Jews were meshed into the count, but in truth, how many       Jews really were killed?”              Originally from Israel, Mizrachi moved to the United States in his       twenties and received rabbinic ordination there. In the past decade he       has been teaching at the Ohr Yeshiva in Monsey, New York, and       producing kiruv or Jewish outreach, videos.              According to his website, DivineInformation.com, Mizrachi “has spoken       in over 5,000 lectures worldwide as well participated in many weekend       seminars, radio shows and other Hebrew and English events in which he       enriched the knowledge and awareness of Judaism among thousands of       Jews who once were lacking Jewish awareness whatsoever.”              In the video, one of thousands on his YouTube page — which has amassed       over a million views — Mizrachi says it is “very simple” to explain       his estimates for the actual number of Jewish victims in the       Holocaust.              “If you look at the percent of assimilation that there was in Europe,       which already reached 80 percent, it’s reasonable to assume that 80       percent of the 6 million were not-Jews,” Mizrachi said.               |
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