"The Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced the government of the Spain’s Catalunya region for canceling its public commemoration of International Holocaust Day on January 27th as a way to protest Israel’s operations in Gaza. An official from the city of Barcelona, where they memorial was to be held, was quoted as saying, "Marking the Jewish Holocaust while a Palestinian holocaust is taking place is not right."
So the Catalunyans decided that Holocaust Memorial Day is a waste of time, as Israel actions in Gaza are not self defense but rather a genocide.
ACT NOW and tell them what you think about it.
Here is the list of The Government Team. Generalitat of Catalonia contact details.
Or you can copy/paste this list of emails to your email client:
atencio_ciutadana.presidencia@gencat.net, consellerbaltasar@gencat.cat, conseller.iue@gencat.cat , conseller.darp@gencat.cat, consellertresserras@gencat.cat, justicia@gencat.cat, conseller.governacio@gencat.cat, consellersaura@gencat.cat, consellera.benestar@gencat.cat, consellera.salut@gencat.cat, conseller.educacio@gencat.cat, conseller.ptop@gencat.cat, consellercastells@gencat.cat
Here the email I wrote them:
Your decision to cancel the Holocaust Memorial Day is a spit to the face of humanity.
This is not only a spit to the face of the millions of people that where executed/choked/starved/walked/labored/gased to death,
you are also spitting in the face of genocides occurring these days around the world and in the future.
Your antisemitism blinds you from seeing that not only Jews were exterminated, but also Communists, Gays, Disabled, Roma etc. etc.
You are blinded by your own so called morality,
Where were you when for 8 years rockets from Gaza fall on Israeli towns/cities on a daily basis ?!
Barcelona is beautiful, your sense of justice is ugly.
SHAME SHAME SHAME
Waiting sencierly to you response,
Con respecto,
Shmuel Ahdut.
Please write them in your own words what do you think.
If you wish to phone them, here is the list of phone number.
ACT NOW.
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3 comments:
I think our sense of justice is also ugly.
I dont think my ancestors died in the holocaust to justify our acts on the palestinians (that are no angels themselves).
I am sure the Catalonians aren't saints either and I have my doubts on their real causes BUT I don't know how I will, myself, accept the coming Israeli official holocaust memorial day with the ignorance to human life that we demonstrate daily.
We have a system so rotten that we prefer to think that the evil is on the other side of the border. We have an incredible increase in brutality among israelis - violence in the streets, schools and families and crime. We have ministers (and prime ministers) that are accused of taking bribe and sick holocaust survivors that get no medical treatment nor efficient pension support.
I would have spent my time thinking about what we did wrong with the memory of the holocaust and the survivors before going, again, to the other side of the border - to the "others".
I would have spent my time, money and resources on helping the holocaust survivors and helping concurrent holocaust survivors - like the poor Africans that are trying to find asylum in Israel and are being shot to death by Egyptian soldiers under the command of the Israeli government.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071203/lynfield
We have long forgotten the message of the holocaust.
That is, my brother, a real shame.
The great thing about this shame, however, is that it is our responsibility to cure it and we can do something about it. We should.
Thanks for your comment Dor.
The connection you make when you say:
"I dont think my ancestors died in the holocaust to justify our acts on the palestinians"
Makes no sense to me.
Its like me saying that I don't see why my grandfather was forced to work almost to death by the Nazis in a Labor Camp justifies rockets to be sent from Gaza into Israeli towns and city.
The reason for that is that THERE IS NO CONNECTION.
Maybe besides the connection Extreme Islam, Ahamadinijad, Catalunya and unfortunately you making as well.
Read what Iranian Govt. spokesman just said an hour ago:
The Holocaust a "big lie" created to place the Islamic republic's arch-foe Israel in the Middle East, the state IRNA news agency reported.
Be careful the connection you make, as the same people that suggested it, sooner than later, claims that the Holocaust didn't happen at all.
I agree with Dor that we have an obligation to help Holocaust survivors and help those in Darfur. We need to do more regarding both (though I think we already do more than the rest of the world who are in a better position to make a difference). But at the same time we should still remember the Holocaust and the horrors it wrought.
As for Gaza, there is absolutely no connection to the Holocaust and even comparing the two is wrong on so many levels, I wouldn't know where to begin.
Even if there was a connection, should we not honor a grandfather because of the actions of his grandson? Whether you agree with those actions is another issue entirely. I think most Holocaust survivors would be happy to know that Jews can finally defend themselves. For without the strength of our brave army, do not have any doubts that Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and the rest of Israel's enemies would be doing everything in their power to send Jews to the ovens once again.
THOSE WHO DON'T LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT!
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