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Jane EisnerMay 13, 2019

When a powerful nation interns at least a million Muslims in concentration camps in an effort to eradicate their culture and religion, is that a Jewish issue? And if so, what can and should be done?

Because that is happening today.

Today, the Chinese government is holding an estimated one to three million Muslim Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups in what even the Trump administration, not known for championing human rights, is calling “concentration camps.”

Some of the sprawling facilities in the northwestern Xinjiang region are ringed with razor wire and watchtowers, according to Reuters and other reports. Former detainees have described being tortured during interrogation, living in crowded cells and being subject to a brutal daily regime of party indoctrination that drove some people to suicide. Journalists have noted that the Chinese government has ordered police batons and electric cattle prods for the camps.

The Chinese, who consider the Uighurs a security threat, claim that the facilities are vocational skills education centers.

That’s about as believable as the Nazis proclaiming on the doorpost of Auschwitz that work will set you free.

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