For Israel, the wounds of the Holocaust remain fresh
(01-25) 11:29 PST JERUSALEM (AP) — Though it ended six decades ago, the Holocaust remains a fresh trauma here, a tragedy that darkens Israeli society and forms an integral part of the national identity.
Continue readingBank Leumi won’t pay Holocaust victims’ heirs
Bank Leumi, which holds most of the accounts of Jews who perished in the Holocaust, does not intend to pay the money it owes the survivors and victims’ heirs at this stage. The bank made this clear despite the publication of the parliamentary inquiry commission on this matter last week.
Continue readingGov’t decision strips Palestinians of their East J’lem property
The Sharon government implemented the Absentee Property Law in East Jerusalem last July, contrary to Israeli government policy, since Israeli law was extended to East Jerusalem after the Six Day War.
Continue readingIn the summer of 2003, the Knesset promulgated a disgraceful law. The amendment to the Citizenship Law applied a sweeping prevention of unification of families and marriages between Israeli Arabs and Arabs from the region. Since the law was passed by the votes of 53 MKs — including Shinui — there has been a total halt to any requests by Israeli Arab citizens, including those who were already married and had children, to enable them to live in Israel with their relatives.
Continue readingAuschwitz survivors recall the horror 60 years on
Continue readingContinue reading“Auschwitz is unique,” explains series producer and writer Lawrence Rees. “It has a physical beginning in May 1940 and physical ending in January 1945, and is the site of the single largest mass murder in the history of humanity.”
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Continue readingStop ‘teaching’ the Holocaust
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Type out the word “Holocaust” on Google and you’ll get about seven million hits. So don’t tell me we’ve failed to raise the Holocaust in the consciousness of mankind.
Continue readingOur overuse of the term ‘holocaust’ belittles the true horror of Nazism
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Indeed, the farther into history the Second World War retreats, the more obsessed with Nazis the news seems to become. […]
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