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...

 

                                                                           1/28/205

The White House

Dear President Trump,

I agree that it is very important to stop racism, and hopefully part of that is in remembering the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust.

BUT I do not agree with your statement on the National Day of Remembrance ofthe 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, 2025 that "To this day, the Jewish people proudly represent the peak of human tenacity and the pinnacle of human triumph."  Nor do I agree with your misguided support of Israel which claims to be The Jewish State. 

I firmly believe religion should be a personal, private choice, not a state funded project. 

Israel's discriminatory laws and refusal to fully respect the Palestinians' basic human rights, including but not limited to every refugee’s inalienable right to return to original homes and lands has created Apartheid in the Holy Land, and a HUGE refugee crisis.  There is nothing to admire about that, and there is no triumph in the IDF terrorizing and killing Palestinian women and children.

Our mainstream media acts more like a propaganda arm of the Israeli government than a free press or a Fourth Estate, and I am starting to suspect that every politician has his Zionist keepers that keep him in line with Zionist spin. 

True democracy with real freedom and justice depends on true equality. America is still working towards that, but at least we are trying. Israel is not.  Yes, there are some very admirable Jewish individuals, but most of them live in the West, not in Israel.  

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...

NEVER AGAIN has to be inclusive, or else it is totally meaningless.

International law is worth keeping, and so is UNWRA as long as the Palestinian refugees need it. 

 America's veto should be used for the universal good, not to pardon a foreign country's crimes against humanity.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

American homemaker & poet

Notes  https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes

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

 

If you've ever wondered what you'd do during slavery, the holocaust, or the civil rights movement- you're doing it right now

 

Criticism of Israeli State Policies Is NOT ANTISEMITISM

 "Globally, scholars who criticize Israel are facing an increasingly uphill battle to protect their academic freedom.

Redefining antisemitism

At the heart of the issue rests the new definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Proponents of the IHRA definition are part of what some are calling a new antisemitism movement that seeks to label criticism of Israel as antisemitic.

While challenging antisemitism is vital, Canadian critics of the IHRA definition argue that the new language could “chill political expressions of criticism of Israel as well as support for Palestinian rights.”

The IHRA definition is vague. It fails to connect antisemitism to other forms of racism. It also appears more intent on silencing critics of Israel than halting antisemitic threats from far-right white supremacists.

A series of open letters by scholars have warned against adopting this definition, including in Canada, the United Kingdom and Israel.

The main issue with the IHRA’s definition of antisemitism is not its short 38 word definition, but the 11 illustrative examples of anti-Semitism. Seven of these examples equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Two of them reference Israel without mentioning Jewish people.

Israel should be subject to the same critiques as other nations.

One of the original draftees of the IHRA definition, Kenneth Stern, now says that the new language “weaponizes” the definition of antisemitism." ... READ MORE

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic — it’s academic freedom

Published: November 15, 2020 9.03am EST Updated: April 19, 2021

https://theconversation.com/criticizing-israel-is-not-antisemitic-its-academic-freedom-148864

[AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES IN FULL: HELP SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and conversations) THAT EMPOWER DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE & PEACE... and hopefully Palestine]  

Israel’s Bent Neck...by Joharah Baker for MIFTAH

Israel’s Bent Neck

Date posted: 28/03/2011

By: Joharah Baker for MIFTAH

In Arabic, we have a very expressive saying that goes like this: “The camel never sees the bend of his own neck.” We use it when referring to someone who points out the faults of others when they have the very own fault. As one could imagine, this saying is used in abundance and not only in reference to individuals but to whole states.

While we have all been guilty of this shortcoming at some time or another, in this instance the “camel” is Israel. Last week, Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, passed the “Nakba Law” which ultimately punishes anyone in Israel who holds events on the country’s “Independence Day” as a day of catastrophe (Nakba) or mourning. Anyone who holds these types of events – in this case, Palestinians living inside Israel, can be made to pay exorbitant fines. The law also applies to any activity that “denies that Israel is a Jewish state as well as the country’s democratic character” or which supports armed struggle against Israel.

Just as a reminder, the Nakba is how Palestinians refer to the period in which Israel was created. While Israeli Jews celebrate the birth of their new homeland, the Palestinians mourn the loss of their loved ones, their homes, their land and their flight into exile. Tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and over 800,000 Palestinians fled the fighting and massacres perpetrated by Jewish gangs in the months leading up to May 15, 1948, never to return. Over 400 Palestinian villages were razed to the ground to make way for the newly arrived Jewish immigrants from Europe. Palestinians who left their homes, thinking it was a temporary alternative to being slain in their own beds, would end up in squalid refugee camps in neighboring Arab countries and in the West Bank and Gaza, never to return. Sixty-plus years later, refugees, their descendants and Palestinians still living in Israel whose original villages and homes were destroyed or usurped still commemorate that day by remembering the ongoing injustice that history has never rectified.

This seems reasonable within the freedoms provided by a “democratic state”. It also seems reasonable in light of Israel’s rampant attacks against anyone who questions the plight of Jews throughout history, namely those it likes to call “Holocaust deniers”. Surely, Israel would not want to be viewed in a light similar to those it so ardently criticizes?

Still, here we are. Israel has just passed a law that denies an entire people’s history. The Nakba has been stricken from textbooks offered to Palestinians inside Israel because, according to one Israeli official, “No state could be expected to portray its own foundation as a catastrophe.”

It is ridiculous to deny that horrible things happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany. There are hard facts that prove these atrocities really occurred. Besides, if it were not for the recognition of the Holocaust, there would be no compensation or justice for its victims.

The same should be applied to Palestinians. A great injustice was done to them in 1948, one which has never been recognized by Israel or rectified in any way. Remembering the disaster of 1948, the suffering it caused and the ongoing pain it still inflicts on all Palestinians in varying degrees is a way of honoring those who lost their lives and their homes. It is also a way of reminding the world that there is a gaping hole in the so-called democracy of Israel; that this country would love to erase the Palestinian narrative of 1948 and replace it with the sole Israeli Zionist narrative of Israel’s creation.

Israel should have learned by now how wrong it is to deny a people’s history. It is no more right to deny the Palestinians’ narrative of what happened in 1948 than it is to deny that millions of Jews perished in WWII. There is ample evidence that the Holocaust occurred. Let us not allow Israel to deny a catastrophe it created with its own hands. The evidence is right under our noses.

Joharah Baker is Director of the Media and Information Department at the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH). She can be contacted at mid@miftah.org.

The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy

VISION

An independent, democratic and sovereign Palestinian state, which grants Palestinians their basic rights, preserves their dignity, and enjoys international recognition and respect.

Survivors of the Holocaust have warned of neo-fascism in Israel following the emergence of a campaign to cleanse Arabs from parts of Israel/Palestine

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8233929/Holocaust-survivors-warn-of-stirrings-of-neo-fascism.htmlbar refeali Photo: REX FEATURES

Survivors of the Holocaust have warned of the first stirrings of neo-fascism in Israel following the emergence of a Right-wing campaign to cleanse Arabs from predominantly Jewish parts of the country.

By Adrian Blomfield, Jerusalem 9:00PM GMT 31 Dec 2010

Until this month, the shadowy Lehava organisation was best known for issuing an eccentric demand in March urging Bar Refaeli, an Israeli model, not to marry Leonardo DiCaprio, the American actor, because he is a gentile.

But in recent weeks it has taken on a more sinister hue by spearheading a series of actions that included a rally in the coastal city of Bat Yam to denounce Jews who rent their homes to Arabs.

In the broader political spectrum, Lehava may represent a tiny minority of malcontents but there is growing unease in Israel after the message about renting homes was effectively endorsed by 300 rabbis.

The rabbis, some of them of senior rank, signed up to an edict issued last month that declared: "It is forbidden in the Torah to sell a house or a field in the land of Israel to a foreigner."

With its undertones reminiscent of 1930s Berlin, where Jews were relegated to second-class status and denied the right to rent German-owned properties, the pronouncement has appalled Holocaust survivors.

"As someone who suffered as a Jew and underwent the Holocaust, I remember the Nazis throwing Jews out of their apartments and city centres in order to create ghettos," said Noah Flug, the chairman of the International Association of Holocaust Survivors.

"I remember how they wrote on benches that no Jews were allowed, and of course it was prohibited to sell or rent to Jews. We thought that in our country this wouldn't happen."

As part of a campaign to "purify" the land of Israel, Lehava has also invited informants to denounce Jewish neighbours who have Arab tenants by telephoning a hotline. This week it distributed a letter from a group of rabbis' wives calling on Jewish girls not to go out with Arabs, work with them or perform national service in places where Arabs are employed...READ MORE

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PEACE NOW:
Report: In 6 weeks the settlers almost made up for the 10 months
Settlement Freeze
http://www.peacenow.org.il/site/en/peace.asp?pi=61&docid=4818

LOS ANGELES TIMES:
Israeli actions jeopardize two-state solution (By Dr. Hanan Ashrawi)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ashrawi-mideast-20101115,0,6866472.story

THE INDEPENDENT (UK):
The Holocaust survivor whose life is in danger again
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-holocaust-survivor-whose-life-is-in-danger-again-2134223.html

SALON.COM:
Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/11/13/israel

HUFFINGTON POST:
Netanyahu's Defiance and U.S. Timidity Makes Mockery of Peace Drive
(By James Zogby)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/netanyahus-defiance-and-u_b_783111.html

HAARETZ:
Jerusalem must be divided (By Akiva Eldar)
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/jerusalem-must-be-divided-1.324728

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