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Related: About this forumObama Calls for Worldwide Fight Against Anti-Semitism
LOS ANGELES Recalling the horrors of the Holocaust, President Barack Obama urged nations to fight growing anti-Semitism and threats against Israel.
Speaking Wednesday night to 1,200 supporters of the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, Obama called for confronting a rising tide of anti-Semitism around the world."
We see attacks on Jews in the streets of major Western cities, public places marred by swastikas, he continued. From some foreign governments we hear the worst kind of anti-Semitic scapegoating.
At the same time, its up to us to speak out against rhetoric that threatens the existence of the Jewish homeland and to sustain Americas unshakeable commitment to Israels security, Obama declared to loud applause.
http://www.jewishexponent.com/headlines/2014/05/obama-calls-for-worldwide-fight-against-anti-semitism
King_David
(14,851 posts)R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Also, it is a good thing to stop out all racism everywhere regardless of who the target is. Right?
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)I guess that the foundation also had the surviving members of the Nakba recount their tales of ethnic cleansing at the hands of the founders of Israel.
Right?
Perhaps not. I guess some atrocities have to be buried in order to promote the myths of the homeland.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)The foundation clearly focuses on genocides. Are you seriously going to try and compare events like the rape of Nanking or the pol pot genocide with the Nakba?
The reality is that countless examples of ethnic cleansing followed the global changes following WWII. The Nakba isn't a particularly severe or straightforward example either, compared with the atrocities associated with India's partition or stalin's massive, forced population shifts. All of which qualify as atrocities. The Nakba however is far less cut and dry, to anyone who knows the historical facts of the matter.
Right. Because no ones ever heard of the Nakba. It's a big secret no one knows about. You're probably the only person who knows about it I'd bet.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Why would anybody want to mention the Nakba, or the ethnic cleansing of 720,000 Palestinians...along with mass killings in some of their villages, when it is better off kept an uncomfortable secret in plain sight...especially since the birth of Israel could not have come about without such an expulsion?
Seemingly more than half of Israelis would probably like to forget it ever happened at all.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4516743,00.html
or...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/08/what-passover-teaches-us-about-the-nakba.html#
Like I wrote before. I guess some atrocities have to be buried in order to promote the myths of the homeland.
Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)In your view it's the equivalent of the holocaust or the Armenian genocide?
You do recognize the difference between ethic cleansing and genocide, right?
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)victims of the victims get sidelined.
Viva_Daddy
(785 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)And you probably believe this.
Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)That fact is relevant or meaningful in what way exactly?