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Posts Tagged ‘Holocaust’

AshkeNazi threatens Gaza with another “little holocaust”

By Khalid Amayreh • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY KHALID AMAYREH
There seems to be a perfect conformity between Gabi Ashkenazi and his last name. The Israeli chief of staff is considered one of the main Israeli  war criminals responsible for the virtual genocide against the Gaza Strip during the past winter. On his murderous hands, he carries tons of innocent blood, including [...]



Miguel Martinez – Italy: an attempt to outlaw defending freedom of speech

By Guest Post • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

(Pacifici and Alemanno – the Zionist and the Neo-Fascist decide who must be silenced in Italy). Antonio Caracciolo is a scholar of philosophy of law who works at the Faculty of Political Sciences of Rome University.
Politically, he is a liberal in the Italian sense of the word: a believer in the separation of Church and state, [...]



Daniel McGowan – What Does Holocaust Denial Really Mean?

By Guest Post • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Zionism

In April 2007 the European Union agreed to set jail sentences up to three years for those who deny or trivialize the Holocaust.[1]   More recently, in response to the remarks of Bishop Richard Williamson, the Pope has proclaimed that Holocaust denial is “intolerable and altogether unacceptable.” 
But what does Holocaust denial really mean?  Begin with the [...]



Auschwitz survivor: "I can identify with Palestinian youth"

By Guest Post • Jun 2nd, 2009 • Category: Biography, Internet and Communication, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

Hajo Meyer, author of the book The End of Judaism, was born in Bielefeld, in Germany, in 1924. In 1939, he fled on his own at age 14 to the Netherlands to escape the Nazi regime, and was unable to attend school. A year later, when the Germans occupied the Netherlands he lived in hiding [...]



Khalid Amayreh – Israel's Little Hitler

By Khalid Amayreh • May 28th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Human Rights, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

There is always fresh evidence justifying the Israeli-Nazi analogy. In recent days and weeks, a number of Israeli officials and lawmakers proposed "draft laws" that would effectively formalize Israel's de facto racism and seriously restrict the human and civil rights of Israel’s non-Jewish citizens.
One of the proposals being discussed would criminalize the commemoration of Nakba [...]



Holocaust and Holodomor (Origins of Anti Semitism)

By Haitham Sabbah • May 24th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion

By Nicholas Lysson
1. ROLE OF JEWS IN UKRAINIAN FAMINE
One might think the worst holocaust deniers—at least the only ones who command serious attention—are those who insist the Nazi holocaust, as it involved the Jews only, was without parallel.

Guenter Lewy argues for example in The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (Oxford University Press, 2000) that while the Gypsies [...]



Is Israel a democratic state? Interview with Mauro Manno

By Guest Post • Feb 18th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Interviews, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

This interview was made by activist, writer, translator and academic Mauro Manno. Last Friday, following 14 months of suffering, our friend Mauro was released from his agony. All those who knew him, worked together with him and who were befriended by him will miss his intellect, generosity, determination and commitment to a cause. It is [...]



ISRAEL REPEATS HOLOCAUST

By Haitham Sabbah • Jan 20th, 2009 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Video, War, Zionism


Hear, O Israel!!

By Guest Post • Jan 13th, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner, Human Rights, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Stefano Sarfati Nahmad  
 
Hear, Hear O Israel!
You have massacred infants and blamed their parents for it
saying that they used them as shields. I can think of nothing,
nothing more disgraceful.
Only in the space of a generation, in the name of that suffering,
you have caused suffering to others: you have hermetically sealed them
in a territory, and [...]



Avrum Burg: Can the Jewish People Survive Without an Enemy?

By Guest Post • Jan 6th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Grassroots Activism, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, War, Zionism

Interview By Tony Karon January 1, 2009 TIME
Avrum Burg is the scion of one of Israel's founding families — his father was the deputy speaker of the first Knesset, and Burg himself later became speaker of the legislature, and a member of Israel's cabinet. His position at the heart of the Israeli establishment makes all [...]