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Does The Holocaust only refer to the 6 million Jews, or does it encompass all victims like Romani, homosexuals, etc.? And how does the scope affect the discourse of the Holocaust?	850
I recently heard claims that during the founding of Israel, Ethiopian Jews were subjected to forced sterilisation and Yeminite children were abducted for adoption by Ashkenazi Jews. How accurate are these claims, and what is the academic consensus regarding these historical events?	63
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Zionism emerged as a nationalist movement, with its supporters residing outside the region where the state of Israel would be established. Were there other similar nationalist movements, where supporters lived outside the region of their envisioned state?	50
Between the year of Mao's death in 1976 and Jiang Zemin's rise to power in 1989, China had 3 premiers in the span of 13 years. How did they fail to retain power and, perhaps, historical relevancy, while the unexpected candidate Jiang Zemin managed to do so?	24
I recently came across the sentence "Starting in the second half of the twentieth century, the Left moved from deﬁning itself as anti-fascist to deﬁning itself as anti-imperialist." Is it true or is it too much of an oversimplification?	4
The Joint Session that occurred yesterday was a result of the Electoral Count Act. Why was this Act implemented in the first place and has this procedure changed election results before?	3
An Indonesian friend of mine commented that "Britain was an A-tier coloniser" in the context of discussing how populations were treated by various European colonisers. How accurate is this statement?	1
In "The Lion's Den", Susie Linfield said "Starting in the second half of the twentieth century, the Left moved from deﬁning itself as anti-fascist to deﬁning itself as anti-imperialist". Is there significant truth to this?	1
Before the 20th century, both Hanja and Kanji were popular in Korea and Japan respectively, but today, Hanja is rarely used in Korea while Kanji remains common in Japan. How/why did the Korean language managed to move away from Chinese characters while the Japanese language couldn't/didn't?	1
What legal justifications or mandates, if any, were given for the United Nations to partition the Mandate for Palestine into two states? And were these justifications scrutinised?	1

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