Auschwitz Museum
Updated 2024-01-15
2023-12-30 ‘Doctors Against Genocide’ Scraps Event At Holocaust Museum, Apologizes After Uproar: ‘Misunderstanding’ A group of doctors, “Doctors Against Genocide,” planned an event at the U.S. Holocaust Museum to raise awareness about the violence in Gaza. However, the announcement sparked backlash, leading to the event’s cancellation. The group clarified that the intention was to express empathy for Holocaust victims and learn from the museum’s genocide education initiatives. They emphasized their stance against all forms of hate, including antisemitism.
“As Doctors Against Genocide we wish to address misconceptions surrounding our Holocaust Museum event which has been misrepresented as an anti-Semetic gathering,” the group wrote. “We had recently announced a planned visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum as a way to educate and engage the medical community.” “We wanted to learn from the Museum’s initiatives in genocide education and prevention to inform our own efforts as an organization dedicated to preventing war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide around the world,” the group said. “It was not our aim to protest inside or outside the museum, nor is it our intent to minimize the important work done by the Holocaust Memorial Museum. We are deeply affected by the horrors of the Holocaust and are moved to prevent similar atrocities.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/doctors-against-genocide-scraps-event-at-holocaust-museum-apologizes-after-uproar-misunderstanding/ar-AA1mdFHq
2023-12-19 Israeli Official: Gaza Should Be FLATTENED “Like Auschwitz Today” Local Israeli politician David Azoulai of Metula said Gaza should be “flattened completely, just like Auschwitz today.” Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. “A local Israeli council head suggested in a radio interview that Gaza should be “flattened completely, just like Auschwitz today,” the latest Israeli official to publicly call for the annihilation of the besieged Palestinian enclave. David Azoulai, a political leader for the northern Israeli town of Metula, made the remark Sunday in an interview with Tel Aviv’s Radio 103FM. He went further, suggesting that Palestinians in Gaza be forcibly sent to refugee camps in Lebanon. Metula sits near the Israel-Lebanon border.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zlPUPqxLNQ
2023-12-18 Auschwitz Museum Decries Israeli Mayor’s ‘Sick’ Call to ‘Empty’ Gaza The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland on Sunday decried what critics called genocidal remarks by the mayor of an Israeli town who said all of Gaza should be ethnically cleansed of Palestinians and turned into a museum like the notorious Nazi death camp.
“The whole Gaza Strip needs to be empty. Flattened. Just like in Auschwitz,” Metula Mayor David Azoulai said in a radio interview on Sunday, according toThe Times of Israel. “Let it be a museum for all the world to see what Israel can do. Let no one reside in the Gaza Strip for all the world to see, because October 7 was in a way a second Holocaust.”
In response, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, southern Poland wrote on social media that “David Azoulai appears to wish to use the symbol of the largest cemetery in the world as some sort of a sick, hateful, pseudo-artistic, symbolic expression.” “Calling for acts that seem to transgress any civil, wartime, moral, and human laws, that may sound as a call for murder of the scale akin to Auschwitz, puts the whole honest world face-to-face with a madness that must be confronted and firmly rejected,” the museum added. “We do hope that Israeli authorities will react to such shameful abuse, as terrorism can never be a response to terrorism.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-genocidal-statements
2023-11-30 Why is the Auschwitz museum justifying Israel’s genocide? Israel has been sending its teenagers to visit the Auschwitz death camp in Poland for years, trips that by some accounts have made them more xenophobic and nationalistic, rather than instilling universal lessons from the Holocaust.
The international council of the Auschwitz museum earlier this month issued a statement supporting Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip under the banner of “self-defense.” This grotesque move by an institution whose alleged mission is “to warn against indifference” to the kinds of atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis at the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, came on 18 November. This was after weeks of merciless Israeli bombing which had by that time killed more than 13,000 Palestinians, including 5,500 children.
To find a historical comparison for so many large bombs in such a small area, we may “have to go back to Vietnam or the Second World War,” Marc Garlasco, a military adviser for the Dutch organization PAX and a former senior intelligence analyst at the Pentagon, told the Times. And yet the official guardians of the memory of the estimated 1.1 million people murdered at Auschwitz are not flinching. “Threatened in its existence, the State of Israel has the right to self-defense in accordance with international law and the principles of humanitarianism,” the Auschwitz council said. “The existence of a free, sovereign and democratic Jewish state is one of the pillars of world peace,” it asserted, dropping any pretense of political neutrality. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-auschwitz-museum-justifying-israels-genocide
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