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.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Holocaust Survivor – Why I Support Palestinian Rights
Saturday, April 10, 2010
The Rocky Mount Telegram
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
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
How Many Americans Does It Take to Slaughter a Third World Child? by Jay Janson
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.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Katie Washington Notre Dames first black valedictorian
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
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Update on serial killings of black women in North Carolina
http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen.html
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Former Cherokee Nation chief Wilma Mankiller dies - Yahoo! News
Rest in peace, Wilma Mankiller.
Heart disease is the #1 killer of black women
http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html
Monday, April 05, 2010
More black on black crime. Young college educated couple gunned down.
http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
High flyer: RNC Chairman Steele suggested buying private jet with GOP funds |
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.