Today

Thoughts are with those families which lost loved ones and friends at Auschwitz.

Very moving Bert.

HM: I have never been a Zionist. After the war, Zionist Jews spoke about the miracle of having “our own country.” As a confirmed atheist I thought, if this is a miracle by God, I wished that he had performed the smallest miracle imaginable by creating the state 15 years earlier. Then my parents would not have been dead.
I can write up an endless list of similarities between Nazi Germany and Israel. The capturing of land and property, denying people access to educational opportunities and restricting access to earn a living to destroy their hope, all with the aim to chase people away from their land. And what I personally find more appalling then dirtying one’s hands by killing people, is creating circumstances where people start to kill each other. Then the distinction between victims and perpetrators becomes faint. By sowing discord in a situation where there is no unity, by enlarging the gap between people — like Israel is doing in Gaza.
AN: In your book you write about the role of Jews in the peace movement in and outside Israel, and Israeli army refuseniks. How do you value their contribution?
HM: Of course it is positive that parts of the Jewish population of Israel try to see Palestinians as human beings and as their equals. However, it disturbs me how paper-thin the number is that protests and is truly anti-Zionist. We get worked up by what happened in Hitler’s Germany. If you expressed only the slightest hint of criticism at that time, you ended up in the Dachau concentration camp. If you expressed criticism, you were dead. Jews in Israel have democratic rights. They can protest in the streets, but they don’t.
AN: Can you comment on the news that Israeli ministers approved a draft law banning commemoration of the Nakba, or the dispossession of historic Palestine? The law proposes punishment of up to three years in prison.
HM: It is so racist, so dreadful. I am at a loss for words. It is an expression of what we already know. [The Israeli Nakba commemoration organization] Zochrot was founded to counteract Israeli efforts to wipe out the marks that are a reminder of Palestinian life. To forbid Palestinians to publicly commemorate the Nakba. … they cannot act in a more Nazi-like, fascist way. Maybe it will help to awaken the world.

Show some respect you idiot.

Bert Assirati wrote:Show some respect you idiot.

as is shown day after day the anti semites and #usefulidiots still abound in this world.

I never saw that cartoon you drew Scrat, can you show me or was it vile hate speech?

Bert Assirati wrote:I never saw that cartoon you drew Scrat, can you show me or was it vile hate speech?

I thought you lot were now worshipping the left wing Charlie Hebdo, I suggest that the cartoon must be bang on the money!

ALLAKAKA wrote:

Hi pakistanley, first post WOW,,,,,it didn't take you long to introduce your sick child rape fantasies into a thread about Auschwitz, I guess that's par for the course with terrorist nazis such as yourself.

scrat wrote:
Hi pakistanley, first post WOW,,,,,it didn't take you long to introduce your sick child rape fantasies into a thread about Auschwitz, I guess that's par for the course with terrorist nazis such as yourself.

I watched a programme last night some survivors and their families. Very moving and enlightening to see the camp through their eyes of particular people and the flukes and twists of fate that helped them survive.