Thursday, April 07, 2011

When Zionists attempt to erase history

"They called it Lifta. Today, the abandoned village is the last intact pre-1948 Palestinian town in Israel. Hundreds of similar Palestinian communities were razed after residents fled during Israel's 1948 war for independence.  For reasons lost to history, Lifta's homes, cemetery and olive press were left standing, though its farmland was confiscated and is now the site of Israel's Supreme Court; its parliament, the Knesset; and Hebrew University.  After being forgotten for decades, Lifta is now the focus of conflicting visions of its future, and of its past. Israel wants to develop luxury apartments at the old village, while Palestinians hope to turn the ruins into an open-air museum devoted to their mass displacement in 1948, an event Palestinians call the nakba, or catastrophe."  And suddenly, the article says this:  "Many Palestinians still question whether the Holocaust took place, and in the Gaza Strip this month, the Islamist group Hamas moved to prevent U.N. schools there from teaching about the genocide of 6 million European Jews, according to news reports."  What does this have to do with anything?  And also, it is time to say this: to oppose UNRWA plans to forcibly teach the Holocaust is NOT anti-Semitic.  It is nice and good to learn about oppression and genocide and cruelty in history, but for the UNRWA and the White Zionist man behind it, to decide that they won't feed the refugees unless they learn about the Holocaust is not only not anti-Semitic: it is actually outrageous.