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The Shoa is over, the Nakba still continues … by Michael R. Burch


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Hi all,

all Humans have the right to live.
Nobody whenever, whereever, and however has no right to steal my life, and my dignity as part of the family of HUMANITY.

We are all humanity.
So no violation against human dignity, no racial discrimination, no genocide!!

I would like to give the word to Michael R. Burch to make you understand how important it is to support Palestine today…
We have to avoid the perpetuation of this genocide against Palestinian people.

Because, as the American poet affirms:
The Shoa is over, the Nakba still continues.

Thank you for commenting his speech.

Dr. phil. Milena Rampoldi
Editorial Team of ProMosaik e.V. 

What was the genesis
of the Holocaust? The Holocaust became possible when Nazi Germany denied Jews,
Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals and other human beings the protection of fair laws
and courts. All too often the victims were completely innocent women and
children, even babies. If German courts had upheld the rights of these people,
the Holocaust could never have taken place. So the way to keep such things from
ever happening again is simple (which is not the same thing as
“easy”): the world needs to require every nation to establish equal rights, fair
laws and fair courts for all human beings, without
exception
. 

 

Allowing exceptions to this simple rule invariably leads to terrible misery,
suffering and premature deaths. White settlers once stripped Native Americans
of their human rights and dignity, and soon innocent women and children were
walking the Trail of Tears. 

White slaveowners once stripped African Americans
of their human rights and dignity, and not only did black slaves suffer
abomination upon abomination, but it took a terrible Civil War followed by a
century of Jim Crow laws, kangaroo courts and public lynchings before the
United States finally began to embrace its avowed creed of all men being
created equal. 

Very similar things happened to Australian aborigines 

and South
African blacks, among others.



These problems are only corrected when nations finally abandon racism (I call
it the “chosen few sin-drome”) and establish equal rights, fair laws
and fair courts for everyone
Unfortunately,
this is a lesson Israel needs to learn and take to heart today, because
Israel’s racist laws and courts have led to escalating violence on both sides
of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

A Palestinian baby should notmust notbe born with inferior
rights to a Jewish baby. 

When black babies were born with inferior rights to
white babies in the United States, the country was ripped apart, as multitudes
of white Americans could not bear to see the misery and suffering of so many
black children. Today there are many Jewish humanitarian organizations and
Jewish individuals who feel the same way about the Palestinians. The existence
of more than 200 Jewish organizations that oppose the abuse of Palestinians is
proof positive that a terrible problem exists. Why are Jews, Americans and
Internationals using their bodies as human shields, to protect Palestinian
women, children and farmers in Gaza and the West Bank? The “proof is in
the pudding,” as the saying goes. If the children of one race need human
shields to protect them from the adults of another race, and those adults are
wearing military uniforms, then something is clearly wrong. Things only
improved in the United States when employees of the government stopped
persecuting minorities and started protecting them. 

It’s time for all Jews of good conscience, all Americans of good conscience,
and all the people of the world to confront the simple facts:
government-sanctioned racism, unjust laws and unjust courts will always lead to
racial violence. Since 1776 human beings have been rightly unwilling to be
stripped of their self-evident human rights, and the Palestinians have every
reason to demand equal rights for themselves. I am an editor and publisher of
Holocaust poetry, not an anti-Semite. I believe in protecting all women and children, and not harming
any of them unjustly. I have studied History and listened to the Witnesses who
endured the horrors of the Holocaust, and they tell me that every human being must be protected by fair
laws and courts. If it was wrong for the Nazis to strip Jews of their human
rights during the Shoah (Hebrew for “Catastrophe”) then it is wrong
for Israel to strip Palestinians of their human rights during the Nakba (Arabic
for “Catastrophe”). The Shoah
is fortunately over; the Nakba unfortunately continues. We should say
“Never again!” to all such atrocities, and never allow a child to be
born bereft of equal rights and the protections of fair laws and courts.
  





















mething is clearly wrong. Things only
improved in the United States when employees of the government stopped
persecuting minorities and started protecting them. 

It’s time for all Jews of good conscience, all
Americans of good conscience, and all the people of the world to confront the
simple facts: government-sanctioned racism, unjust laws and unjust courts will
always lead to racial violence. Since 1776 human beings have been rightly
unwilling to be stripped of their self-evident human rights, and the
Palestinians have every reason to demand equal rights for themselves. I am an
editor and publisher of Holocaust poetry, not an anti-Semite. I believe in
protecting 
all women and children, and not harming any of them
unjustly. I have studied History and listened to the Witnesses who endured the
horrors of the Holocaust, and they tell me that 
every human
being must be protected by fair laws and courts. If it was wrong for the Nazis
to strip Jews of their human rights during the Shoah (Hebrew for
“Catastrophe”) then it is wrong for Israel to strip Palestinians of
their human rights during the Nakba (Arabic for “Catastrophe”). The Shoah is fortunately over; the Nakba
unfortunately continues. We should say “Never again!” to all such
atrocities, and never allow a child to be born bereft of equal rights and the
protections of fair laws and courts.








Mike Burch