I cannot see Zuckerberg's point. It would be one thing if Facebook was an open marketplace of ideas that did not censor anyone at all. But that is not the case.

When Facebook censors some things but not others, it is responsible for the content that it allows.

The Santayana and Niemöller quotes are good choices, but I'd like to suggest a third. The wicked child asks, "What does all of this holiday mean to you." By using the word, "you", he excludes himself from the community, so you answer, "With a strong hand, hashem took ME out of Egypt. For had you been there, you would not have been redeemed."

Timothy doesn't seem to understand what the holocaust means to the Jewish community and the harm that holocaust denial causes to the community. And yet had Timothy been in Nazi-controlled territory in the 1940s, he would not have been spared. And he would not have been redeemed.

Personally, I agree with what petophile said... I'm in my twenties and my Jewish identity is extremely important to me. My family heritage, including the holocaust, is important to me.

My Dad's side of the family is small because many of my ancestors were murdered. Like many Jewish families, my parents have a shoebox of photographs of relatives in the attic. Nobody knows who they are, but we know they were relatives.

My Great Uncle Siegfried was the director of the Israelitisches Blindeninstitut-Vienna's institute for blind Jewish children. Towards the beginning of Nazi rule, my Great Uncle was able to get the children in his care to safety in Palestine and the United States, before emigrating to the United States himself. He did not abandon his fellow Jews, however-among the Leo Baeck Institute's collections is a series of letters between my Great Uncle and the International Red Cross where he tells them what he knows of the concentration camps.

My grandfather, a lawyer in Vienna and a Lieutenant in the Kaiser's army in World War I, fled Austria during World War II after being held by the SS. In a cruel fit of irony, his wife and one of his daughters escaped to London, only to be killed during the Blitz. My grandfather made his way across Europe and eventually got to the United States. Not speaking very good English, he never practiced law again. Instead, he worked a series of jobs, ranging from a cook to a part-owner/operator of the Star Hotel in the Catskills. He met another Austrian Jew, remarried, and had my Dad. He died before I was born. And yet today, I follow in his footsteps as a Jewish lawyer. His law license, in German, hangs in my apartment, near my own.

The holocaust happened. It MATTERS that it happened. And if we allow people to forget, or allow holocaust deniers to muddy the waters with disinformation, lies, and hatred, it only serves to further the Nazi's aims of destroying the Jewish people and culture.

Timothy will need to make a choice-he is part of the Jewish community or he isn't. To think that you can claim a Jewish identity but be unaffected by the holocaust is not only folly, it's wicked.