How A Buddhist Neo-Nazi I Know Tried To Use Elie Wiesel’s Witness To Disprove The Holocaust

Matthew Gindin
5 min readNov 29, 2020

Note: the original Buddhist swastika is a symbol of blessing, not Nazism, and Buddhist teachings oppose racism and violence.

Last year I was shocked to discover that a long time Buddhist teacher who I was friendly acquaintances with, and who I shared a sometimes teacher with, was a neo-Nazi holocaust denier.

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