Holocaust Survivor – Why I Support Palestinian Rights

Weiss: Holocaust Survivor – Why I Support Palestinian Rights

In Canada, Holocaust Memorial Day has been established by Heritage Canada to be on April 11. It is a good opportunity to review what we learn from the Holocaust experience and how we apply these lessons to the troubled situation in the Middle East.

This year, students in more than 60 cities took part in educational meetings on conditions in Palestine as part of Israeli Apartheid Week, held March 1–7. It is a controversial event, not popular in Canadian government circles. It is criticized for supposedly dishonouring the victims of Hitler’s holocaust.

I am a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust, the Nazis’ mass murder of Europe’s Jews. The tragic experience of my family and community under Hitler makes me alert to the suffering of other peoples denied their human rights today – including the Palestinians.

True, Hitler’s Holocaust was unique. The Palestinians are victims of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Hitler started with that, but went on to extermination. In my family’s city in Poland, Piotrkow, 99% of the Jews perished.

Yet for me, the Israeli government’s actions toward the Palestinians awaken horrific memories of my family’s experiences under Hitlerism: the inhuman walls, the check points, the daily humiliations, killings, diseases, the systematic deprivation. There’s no escaping the fact that Israel has occupied the entire country of Palestine, and taken most of the land, while the Palestinians have been expelled, walled off, and deprived of human rights and human dignity.

The Rocky Mount Telegram

The Rocky Mount Telegram: "Antwan Maurice Pittman was born on July 15, 1978. He was raised in Rocky Mount by his single, teen mother and described by those who knew him as a normal child.
Three decades later, he is at the center of an investigation into one of the more heinous crimes in Rocky Mount history."

The Rocky Mount Telegram

The Rocky Mount Telegram: "It could take a week or longer for forensic pathologists at East Carolina University to identify the latest set of human remains found in rural Edgecombe County.
A man riding a four-wheeler discovered the body Saturday afternoon while traveling through a wooded area along Seven Bridges Road, a few miles northeast of Rocky Mount."

Rocky Mount mother of three remembered :: WRAL.com

Rocky Mount mother of three remembered :: WRAL.com: "Rocky Mount, N.C. — The mother of a Rocky Mount mother of three, whose remains were found in Edgecombe County nearly two weeks ago, said Friday that she tried to find her daughter"

How Many Americans Does It Take to Slaughter a Third World Child? by Jay Janson

http://www.uruknet.de/index.php?p=m64966&hd=&size=1&l=e

Disturbing eye-rebounding videos and on-the-scene, cringing to watch or read, graphic reports of civilians dying at the hands of U.S. military in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan — resurfacing again on network and radio newscasts, in some newspapers and of course, as always, on the Internet.

As in the past, they bring a certain amount of world reaction in concern and condemnation with the more intense pain and outrage reserved for the children’s lives taken. The president of Afghanistan, elected under US military occupation, after years complaining and protesting uselessly, warns of his own possible defection over the "indiscriminate killing by foreign armed forces" among other issues.

How many Americans have been involved in the collateral slaying of children in America’s wars and bombings within defenseless populations of the so called underdeveloped world since the end of World War Two?

How much effort, by how many Americans, has gone into producing each child’s violent death during undeclared wars in Third World nations? Some innocent child made poor and disadvantaged for its country’s history of brutal colonial occupation and plunder by industrial powers that continue to exploit through neocolonialist financial oppression, killed by foreign invaders of American nationality.

Katie Washington Notre Dames first black valedictorian

Katie Washington, first black valedictorian at Notre Dame.

In the 161 years Notre Dame has been awarding degrees, never had there been an African-American as valedictorian. Until this year.She’s Katie Washington.

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Update on serial killings of black women in North Carolina

In Rocky Mount North Carolina 8 bodies of 10 missing African American women have been found. All 8 are believed to have been killed by Antwan Maurice Pittman who is currently in the Edgecomb County Jail. The governor of North Carolina has sent in the National Gaurd to find the bodies of the last two remaining women, Joyce Renee Durham & Yolanda Lancaster. Watch video on this story below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen.html

Former Cherokee Nation chief Wilma Mankiller dies - Yahoo! News

Former Cherokee Nation chief Wilma Mankiller dies - Yahoo! News: "OKLAHOMA CITY – Former Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller, one of the nation's most visible American Indian leaders and one of the few women to lead a major tribe, died Tuesday after suffering from cancer and other health problems. She was 64."

Rest in peace, Wilma Mankiller.

Heart disease is the #1 killer of black women

Heart disease is the #1 killer of black women. Heart disease takes the lives of thousands of minority women every year. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, black women are 35 percent more likely than white. Read more here:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

More black on black crime. Young college educated couple gunned down.

Black on black crime. In a very sad story a young college educated couple were gunned down. Michael Muchioki and Nia Haqq a college educated couple with a bright future were gunned down hours after their engagement party in an apparent car jacking.

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

High flyer: RNC Chairman Steele suggested buying private jet with GOP funds |

The Daily Caller :According to two knowledgeable sources, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele once raised the possibility of using party money to buy a private jet for his travel. “I know that … regular ongoing use of planes was something that was looked at,” says one person with direct knowledge. “I can’t speak to how serious those inquiries were.” Both sources say Steele considered purchasing a plane outright, or buying fractional ownership in one, through a company such as NetJets. Steele’s spokesman, Doug Heye, did not deny that such discussions took place, responding that the RNC never had a “plan” to buy a plane. “I don’t know what somebody might have discussed or might not have discussed.”

Sofia Madonaldo's Controversial Mural at Times Square

This mural has been the subject of heated debates and controversy because it depicted Black and Afro-Latina women as being "immoral" and "loose".  Black and Latina organizations had already protested against this mural, for they said it's disrepectful to women of Color in NYC.  What say you?  I'd like to hear from you.