Saturday, January 26, 2008
'Confronting Our Past' Ignores Destruction of Palestine
This is a comment I left on a Guardian story about Holocaust Remembrance Day, 'Confronting Our Past':
The following is a link to 'Remembrance and Arabs,' a very moving reflection about what Holocaust Remembrance Day means to Arabs, in particular, Palestinians:
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/raa.htm
And the following is from Sonia Karkar's 'The Ghosts of Deir Yassin':
" . . . the Israeli museum commemorating the Jewish holocaust, Yad Vashem sits on top of a hill overlooking the graveyard of Deir Yassin, while the limestone buildings of the former Palestinian village are used as an Israeli mental institution."
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12530
The following is a link to 'Remembrance and Arabs,' a very moving reflection about what Holocaust Remembrance Day means to Arabs, in particular, Palestinians:
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/raa.htm
And the following is from Sonia Karkar's 'The Ghosts of Deir Yassin':
" . . . the Israeli museum commemorating the Jewish holocaust, Yad Vashem sits on top of a hill overlooking the graveyard of Deir Yassin, while the limestone buildings of the former Palestinian village are used as an Israeli mental institution."
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12530
