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Behind the Aegis

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Tue Feb 4, 2025, 12:27 AM Feb 4

(Jewish Group) A South Carolina rabbi's Holocaust memorial speech was pulled from public TV for being too 'political'

A rabbi in South Carolina used the occasion of a Holocaust memorial ceremony to draw parallels to modern-day federal and state policies on refugees, LGBTQ issues and book bans — only to have his speech cut out of the state public television station’s archived video of the event.

Rabbi Sam Rose took to social media to blast the station for cutting his speech, calling it “state sanctioned censorship.”

Those behind the broadcast said the decision to pull the segment actually came from the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust, a state-operated Holocaust education initiative, which had hosted the event and hired the TV station to make the recording.

“We do not believe the political statements made during the benediction were appropriate for a standard-aligned educational resource and therefore requested that portion be removed from the final production,” the state council said in a statement.

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(Jewish Group) A South Carolina rabbi's Holocaust memorial speech was pulled from public TV for being too 'political' (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Feb 4 OP
Thanks much for this. 70sEraVet Feb 4 #1
I never knew 4catsmom Feb 4 #2

70sEraVet

(4,338 posts)
1. Thanks much for this.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 09:11 AM
Feb 4

One paragraph in the article caught my attention:

Only one person told him they objected to the speech, he said, because “he didn’t believe that religion and, in particular, prayer was ever the platform to bring in politics. To which I responded, then you might as well get rid of the Hebrew Bible.”


I found the speech on youtube.
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