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Showing posts with label Never Again. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Never Again. Show all posts
Friday, January 31, 2025
Anne Frank 1929-1945 + Hind Rajab 2018-2024... NEVER AGAIN MEANS NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Please do not demonize and silence or destroy people who speak out peacefully against corruption, injustice, racism, bigotry, and violence of every type.
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Criticizing Israel is not Anti-Semitic. Semites speak Semitic languages. Palestinians are Semites, but they are erased and excluded from the definition of Anti-Semitism...
Palestinians are also being erased, excluded, and silenced by Israeli efforts to seize Palestinian land, rights, peace, and the story itself.
We know about Anti-Semitism because of the crimes against humanity committed by Nazis who were taught to hate Jewish people and others.
The first prosecution for crimes against humanity took place during the Nuremberg trials (1945-1946) against defeated leaders of Nazi Germany, laying the ground work for modern international law.
Nazis had been brainwashed by toxic propaganda to hate Jewish people. But Nazis were held accountable for their war crimes. Israelis should be too.
Arming Israel and funding Israel's violations of international law and the Palestinians basic human rights is wrong.
“Never Again means Never Again for anybody!” Every year Holocaust survivors and their descendants speak out about Israel’s cruelty towards Palestinian men, women, and children on Holocaust Memorial Day. It is not a huge crowd, but what they say is hugely important. We should listen.
Please do not demonize and silence or destroy people who speak out peacefully against corruption, injustice, racism, bigotry, and violence of every type.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
American homemaker & poet
Notes https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
Jonathan Cook: Thirty years of Middle East lies just keep coming back to haunt us- The West’s ‘war on terror’ was built on a series of deceptions to persuade us that our leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it
No To Hate: United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech
“We must condemn antisemitism wherever and whenever it appears – as we must condemn all forms of racism, prejudice and religious bigotry which we see proliferating today.” @antonioguterres United Nations
Rashida Tlaib: Politicians should not be allowed to profit from war
Tlaib introduced the Stop Politicians Profiting from War Act to ban members of Congress and their families from owning defense stocks.
UNWRA 2025- Palestinian children dream of music and peace....
A family from Bethlehem in 1951
“Never Again means Never Again for anybody” Holocaust Survivors speak about Israel's Genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day -January 2025
UNWRA WORKS: In the first week of the ceasefire, 60% of all the food that entered the Gaza Strip was from UNRWA. If the ban on UNRWA is implemented in the next days, it will severely challenge the already fragile ceasefire including the delivery of lifesaving aid in Gaza #UNWRAworks
"I don’t think that God sent us prophets and books of light to fight each other over them. They actually tell us how to live together. " Yusuf/Cat Stevens
Frankly every Holocaust Museum on earth should have a wing added explaining the very real plight and suffering of the native non-Jewish Palestinians. 75 years and counting...
CIVILIANS & their homes MUST BE PROTECTED
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
America should not help Israel commit crimes against humanity.
Israeli Settlers threw molotov cocktails and rocks, breaking windows and setting several houses and cars on fire in each place they targeted in protest at the release of 90 Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails in exchange for three Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
"Since the war in Gaza began, settler violence has intensified further, displacing entire villages for the first time. On many occasions, the Israeli army has been documented failing to stop settler attacks, or even joining in."
"“We can’t even cross the road to our olive trees now or they’ll shoot at us,” he said of the settlers. “This is our land, and our houses, but they want us to leave for good.”"
‘A constant state of panic’: how war in Gaza triggered new wave of depression and insomnia among Palestinian refugees from 1967 war The stress of seeing the destruction of their homeland sent rates of mental illness soaring in Jordan’s Jerash camp – and the ceasefire has brought scant relie
Poet Mosab Abu Toha's January 22, 2025 Statement on the destruction of the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza
Dear America- letter sent to my elected leaders: Please understand that our friend Israel already is a one state "solution" that has been oppressing and intentionally displacing the native non-Jewish Palestinians for decades now.
Unrwa may be forced to stop saving lives in Gaza. Will the world let that happen? Outrage over Israel’s attempt to dismantle our UN agency has largely petered out. The stakes are very high now Opinion piece by Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General
"Meanwhile,
Hamas accuses Unrwa’s leadership of colluding with the Israeli
occupation and opposes the agency’s efforts to promote human rights and
gender equality. Far from being a party to the conflict, Unrwa is a
casualty of this war." Philippe Lazzarini
CSM ‘Cold is death.’ For Gazans in flimsy tents, a winter of sorrow and loss.
Human Rights Watch joins with nearly 90 other organizations in a letter opposing US sanctions against the International Criminal Court. It would be a terrible irony if a tool designed to penalize violators of human rights could instead contribute to their impunity.
"The U.S. provided $17.9 billion in military aid to Israel from October 2023 to October 2024, a substantial increase from the already $3.8 billion in military aid the U.S. gives Israel annually. "
The best idea is to start with full support for fair and just laws based on full respect for basic human rights.
The United Nations & The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Always, no matter what.... Even Wars Have Rules
"If the U.S. had held Israel accountable for the killing of other Americans like Rachel Corrie or Shireen Abu Akleh, perhaps Israeli soldiers would not feel so emboldened to kill Americans, and other civilians, today." Hamad Ali in The Hill 12/14/24
Dear America- Israel and its propagandists claim it is all about self-defense, but Israel is and has been the aggressor and the rule breaker.
Dear Elected Officials- Stop poisoning the land, and undermining international law.
My Letters https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/letters
"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..." https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
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| In the aftermath of the ceasefire in Gaza, 1.9 million displaced people urgently need shelter, aid, and psycho-social support. UNRWA plays a vital role in fostering stability and resilience during this critical time. |
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Monday, May 6, 2024
Americans should not be helping racist Israel maim, wound and kill the children of Palestine.
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| 2024 Student Protests |
America has been unfairly siding with Jews-preferred Israel instead of standing up for the rule of fair and just laws- real security - and true democracy.
Israel aggressively persecutes and impoverishes the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine over and over and over, for almost a century now, pushing Palestinian individuals and families into forced displacement and crowded refugee camps.
Meanwhile, here in America we frown on prayer in our public schools,
while at the same time our taxes, as well as charity donations,
generously fund Israel's religious "scholars" and schemes... American
politicians should not be legislating Israel's official taxpayer funded
religion, nor should our elected officials be helping racist Israel
maim, wound and kill the children of Palestine.
Holocaust
Remembrance & "Never Again" need to be for everyone's sake- a fully
inclusive plea, and a historically accurate call to remember all
who suffered and died in the Nazi Holocaust including blacks, gays,
disabled people, Poles, Roma
"Gypsies", and political prisoners, to name a few.
Furthermore "Never Again" has to be about firmly condemning ongoing crimes against humanity today, not just yesterday.
Israel's monstrous Apartheid Wall needs to fall.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
Biden recently tweeted: "This Holocaust Remembrance Day, we mourn the six million Jews who were killed by the Nazis during one of the darkest chapters in human history. And we recommit to heeding the lessons of the Shoah and realizing the responsibility of “Never Again.” "
"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..." https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
Gaza's Christians face subdued Easter Sunday amid Israel's bombs: With Israel's war continuing to rage in Gaza, Christians in the strip face sombre Easter Sunday ceremonies, with festivities curtailed.
Merry Orthodox Easter to all my friends who celebrate. May you next celebrate your holidays in a Free Palestine.
A Rose Shoulders Up- poem fragment by Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha, gracefully illustrated by Hannah Maguire
Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha: "I miss my books. I miss the sea. I miss Gaza. Ceasefire Now!!"
Hind Rajab was six years old when she was killed in Gaza. So why did a CNN host refer to her as ‘a woman’?... "It’s not just CNN, of course. There is a long history (one that stretches back way before October 7) of mainstream media outlets dehumanizing Palestinians. "
'Our unwavering determination to return one day': Displaced Palestinians keep hold of keys to Gaza homes like their Nakba ancestors: Palestinians displaced by Israel's war on Gaza are holding on to keys from their damaged or destroyed houses as a symbol of one day returning to their homeland.
4 Palestinian female journalists detained in Israel jails
‘World powers allowing Israel to keep killing Gaza journalists to hide war crimes’
At Harvard Yard, students advocating for Palestine installed an artistic display above the statue of George, featuring Mark 84 bombs. These missiles, measuring 13 feet in length and weighing 2,000 pounds, are supplied by the U.S. to Israel.
6 days before the 2nd anniversary of Israel's killing of correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh: Israel to shut down local offices and broadcasrs of Al Jazeera in Ar & En, seize equipment used for its broadcasts; & limit access to its websites
Razia Iqbal: I teach democracy at Princeton. Student protesters are getting an education like no other- Students across the US are forging bonds in the face of brutal power structures. You might say they’ve already won
Academic freedom and free speech are essential. Universities must protect them. - ACLU's Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests
Which is worse, Israel’s lies about Gaza or its western backers who repeat those lies? ... Useful idiots keep parroting provably false Israeli talking points. Mehdi Hasan in The Guardian
No Freedom Without Free Press #WorldPressFreedomDay - Last week another Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, taking the death toll to 142 media personnel since October 7, 2023
Irish Artists For Palestine- Beautiful Resistance 9th May 2024 Dublin & Shine on Palestine: The Alternative Eurovision May 10th 2024
Our hearts are with the many Palestinian communities who have been forced to flee their homes, traditions, and livelihoods in the rural West Bank due to escalating Israeli settler and military violence.
Teachers for Palestine #LetsTalkAboutPalestine ... 29th April-10th May 2024
Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign IPSC - Flight of Return Kites for Palestine 2024
Hereford Palestine Solidarity Campaign 2024 for Gaza
"The Zionist is not the Jew, The time before Zionism in Palestine, When people lived together in peace and harmony, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, Muslims, Druze, Baha’i, and many others of these spiritual and religious in Palestine, Who lived together for many centuries, before colonialism arrived to our land,, Zionism is not Judaism"
Universal Echo poem by Anne Selden Annab from 2008 "Every time you unlock any door any where any one you are Al-Awda. Any time you fit a key into any ignition of any vehicle you are Al-Awda. Any time you write a poem (or a grocery list)..."
BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
Factsheet on Palestinian Refugees: THE RIGHT TO RETURN, A BASIC RIGHT STILL DENIED*
Historical Maps of PALESTINE (or the) HOLY LAND
GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA #artagainstapartheid Free Palestine!
Part of Israel's nefarious Ethnic Cleansing campaign is stealing the story- pressuring newspapers and politicians worldwide to favor "The Jewish State" above and beyond all else. Israel Uber Alis.
"For the White House to allow pro-Israel “word police” to define what is & isn’t acceptable language is a dangerous abuse of power" James J Zogby ... & Annie's Notes about the real meanings of some very crucial words that are being badly misconstrued by Biden & the Zionist Word Police
Arresting students and banning Tiktok will not stifle the truth about Israeli crimes against humanity.
FYI the Israel/Palestine conflict did not start on Oct 7th 2023. To be fair and honest you must go back to 1917 when the British Empire and Occupation promoted the Balfour Declaration to create a
Israel has failed to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links: report
Israel has dropped almost 75,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 200 days, twenty times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war. It’s not war. It’s genocide.
There are enough weapons of war and destruction already on planet earth.
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?
The UN Mediator for Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, believed that the Palestinians displaced had a right to return to their homes and wrote several UN reports to that effect.
"It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine, and, indeed, at least offer the threat of permanent replacement of the Arab refugees who have been rooted in the land for centuries."
Bernadotte was assassinated on Friday 17 September 1948 by members of the group Lehi, a Zionist terrorist organization, commonly known in the West as the Stern Gang
Friday, April 19, 2024
"I fear we are forgetting lessons from that terrible history" Eva Ladipo... My family’s past, and Germany’s, weighs heavily upon me. And it’s why I feel so strongly about Gaza
"It is as if the war allows a long-suppressed view of the world to resurface in Germany, in which there are superior “western” cultures"
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| Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare/The Guardian |
I don’t usually talk about my great-uncle Walter. Gen Walter Warlimont, as my grandfather’s brother was formally known, was head of the national defence department in the high command of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany. Only two people were between him and the Führer in the chain of command. Walter worked so closely with Hitler that the failed assassination attempt in July 1944 injured his arm. The orders he signed during wartime – about who to shoot to kill, about how to treat prisoners – meant he had hundreds of thousands of lives on his conscience.
Not that Uncle Walter was the only one in the family who facilitated the Third Reich and the Holocaust. My paternal grandparents were very proud to have been among the very earliest members of Hitler’s party. My maternal grandfather – Walter’s brother – was the head of a factory in Vienna that made the guidance systems for the V2 rocket, a factory that was staffed by Russian and Ukrainian slave labourers.
I’ve
never really felt a need to write about my family history before. But
Walter’s life and crimes feel uncomfortably relevant right now. As I
watch how the debate and discussion over the war in Gaza
have played out in Germany, in the months since the horrific attacks of
7 October, I worry that even as we constantly invoke the Nazi past, we
are forgetting some crucial lessons from our history.... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/19/family-past-germany-gaza
Eva Ladipo is a German journalist and novelist based in London
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Sunday, March 31, 2024
A big reason so many of us are speaking up for Palestine is because we recieved Holocaust education not because we lack it: NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE
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"I
grew up learning about the Holocaust. I learned of the horror European
Jews went through, the way most Germans went along with it, the way most
of the world turned a blind eye and wouldn't even let Jews immigrate. I
also learned about courageous people from many backgrounds who saved
Jews and resisted occupation.
From there, I learned about other genocides including of Indigenous peoples in my own country. I learned how to tell the signs of genocide like how people spoke of Jews or Indigenous peoples as dirty, inhuman, or as inherent threats to security.
I can now recognize the signs of genocide against Palestinians thanks to this education. I learned never again for anyone and if it ever happens we need to speak out even if we're called names and threatened.
Never again is now."
#genocide #holocausteducation #jewishartist #neveragain #illustration #art #artforpeace #artforpalestine #art4palestine #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
From there, I learned about other genocides including of Indigenous peoples in my own country. I learned how to tell the signs of genocide like how people spoke of Jews or Indigenous peoples as dirty, inhuman, or as inherent threats to security.
I can now recognize the signs of genocide against Palestinians thanks to this education. I learned never again for anyone and if it ever happens we need to speak out even if we're called names and threatened.
Never again is now."
#genocide #holocausteducation #jewishartist #neveragain #illustration #art #artforpeace #artforpalestine #art4palestine #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
Monday, February 5, 2024
We are witnessing the first televised genocide in Gaza
Published: Feb. 03, 2024
Suhail Shafi, Mechanicsburg, Pa:
For the past four months, the world has been witness to what could well be the world’s first ever televised genocide committed by Israel in Gaza with the Biden administration’s near total complicity and support. Israel’s massacres in Gaza, which have caused tens of thousands of casualties, have involved attacks on civilian targets on a massive scale.
The U.S. funded and armed Israeli military has been responsible for the carpet bombing of entire civilian neighborhoods in Gaza with the indiscriminate destruction of houses, hospitals, schools and places of worship of both Christians and Muslims.
As a child growing up during the 90s, I still remember the horrors of the war crimes the Milosevic dictatorship inflicted on Bosnians and Kosovans. The massacres in Gaza are horrifically reminiscent of the siege of Sarajevo where Serb forces routinely massacred and bombed civilian targets in the city... READ MORE https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2024/02/we-are-witnessing-the-first-televisted-genocide-in-gaza-pennlive-letters.html
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Sorrow and fury: a letter from American rabbis to President Biden... also puplished (as a paid ad) in the New York Times late January 2024
Dear President Biden,
As American rabbis, we write to you with deep sorrow and fury.
Tomorrow is the UN – designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day: a time to honor the memory of the millions of people murdered through the genocide committed by the Nazi regime, including six million of our Jewish ancestors. On this day, we honor the enormity of our losses, the impact of dehumanization and attempted annihilation on those who survived, and the still-reverberating trauma that has shaped so many of our families and communities.
With sorrow, we will also remember this as the time in which Israel was committing a genocide, aided and abetted by the United States.
We are compelled to speak with moral clarity about what is happening to Palestinians at this very moment. We do so not in spite of our histories, but because of them. We know in our bones what it means to hear Israeli officials dehumanize an entire people, to witness the Israeli military mass murder tens of thousands of Palestinians, to watch Israel systematically destroy civilian infrastructure, cultural institutions, universities, and hospitals. To see Israel purposefully deny food, medicine, and shelter to refugees.
We hold the traumatic history of our people with care and sensitivity — and know how painful it is for Jews to grasp that a Jewish state could possibly commit a genocide. Nevertheless, we must agree with increasing numbers of scholars and international rights experts who have determined that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute, in the words of Prof. Raz Segal, “a textbook case of genocide.”
We support and uplift South Africa’s recent application to the International Court of Justice claiming Israel is in breach of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. And now, Palestinian human rights organizations, together with Palestinians in the US and Gaza, are bringing a case against your administration for failure to prevent, and complicity in, the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide against them, their families, and the 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza. We stand in support of their action as well.
According to a core teaching of Jewish spiritual tradition, humanity was created in the image of God. That means that each and every human being is of infinite value. The UN 1948 Convention on Genocide was created to uphold this very idea. The Torah also teaches that there will always be moments when we must make a critical moral choice. As Deuteronomy 30:19 says, “I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life.” President Biden, you have chosen death. Instead of using your considerable power to prevent or end this genocide, you have directly abetted it with weapons, funds and diplomatic cover.
On this day of remembrance in 2021, you noted that, “The Holocaust was no accident of history.” As you stated, “It occurred because too many governments cold-bloodedly adopted and implemented hate-fueled laws, policies, and practices to vilify and dehumanize entire groups of people, and too many individuals stood by silently. Silence is complicity.”
President Biden, what is happening right now in Gaza is no accident of history — and your complicity has been anything but silent. We call upon you to be true to your word and end U.S. complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.
If the words “Never Again” have any meaning at all, they must mean “Never Again for Anyone.” We fervently ask of you: please honor the word and spirit of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day by using your office to bring a ceasefire to this tragic violence — and to stop blocking efforts toward building a truly just peace for all who live between the river and the sea.
With urgency,
Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/01/26/rabbiletter/
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Ibtisam Barakat: A Palestinian Whose Childhood Was Destroyed by War Pleads for Peace- Never letting children endure war again is the “never again” that might actually heal our wounded humanity.
World / January 3, 2024
A Palestinian Whose Childhood Was Destroyed by War Pleads for Peace
Never letting children endure war again is the “never again” that might actually heal our wounded humanity.
The violence in Gaza may have started on October 7, 2023 for Israel and for the world. But for Palestinians it started 75 years ago, and never stopped.
My Palestinian mother is 79 years old. She grew up in Jerusalem. Seventy-five years ago, she was 4 years old, and Israel drove her, her family, and all of her village out of their homes, which they would never see again. They became part of the Palestinian diaspora.
During the attack on Kharrouba, my mother’s village, she was asleep and when everyone fled, she was left behind. My grandfather walked for 16 hours, risking his life, to find her. That trauma still marks every day of my mother’s life.
Kharruba, her town of origin, was one of more than 400 Palestinian towns and villages that were either depopulated violently or destroyed after Palestine was torn up and Israel came into being on May 14, 1948.... READ MORE https://www.thenation.com/article/world/palestine-gaza-children-peace/
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Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
From Ellis Island to Gaza, NEVER AGAIN means never again — for anyone.
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| 500 Jews and allies took over the Statue of Liberty, disrupting business as usual to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. |
NOT IN OUR NAME
Thursday, October 12, 2023
STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE... & State Sponsored Terrorism
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” ―
Thursday, June 8, 2023
"Never Again" ??? !!
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"This
meme is the rallying cry of Zionists "Never Again" which would be fine
if they were fighting Nazis, but as a Palestinian I look at it
differently. I see the barbed wire imprisoning the #Palestinians, who had absolutely nothing to do with the #Holocaust,
and evolving into the US supplied Israeli jets that slaughter them
behind the barb wire that was installed by those same hypocrites that
shout "never again"...BTW the only escape these #Zionists made was from Brooklyn" Mike Hanini Odetalla& making matters worse are headlines that dismiss and ignore the very real plight and suffering of the native non-Jewish men, women, & children of historic Palestine...  "Mohammed Tamimi loved nature. He may have become an archaeologist or an engineer. Maybe he would one day have built a nice home in the hills of his beautiful village of Nabi Saleh." Husam Zomlot of Palestine (Ambassador, Head of Palestinian Mission to the UK, former Head of PLO Mission to the US, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President of Palestine) |
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