As a holocaust Survivor my message to the brave student protesters
in America is just keep doing it
don't give up we are doing exactly the same
and in the long term we're going to Prevail.
I'm out from the beginning at every march
a small group of survivors and descendants of survivors
demonstrate disagreement with the use of the Holocaust experience
as a cover by the Zionists and the state of Israel.
What's happening in America's college campuses is horrific
this is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s.
The way that the Israeli government is using the memory of the Holocaust
in order to justify what they're doing to the Gazan's
is a complete insult to the memory of the Holocaust.
And we stand repeatedly in the last few demos carrying placards
hanging from the neck saying:
This Survivor of the Holocaust is against the genocide in Gaza.
And we also demonstrate against the conflating of Jewishness
with Zionism which is what the Israeli state is trying to do
which does nothing else but increases anti-Semitism.
So we are trying to counter that by demonstrating that Jews
and Holocaust Survivors are against that.
We have tremendously warm reception and appreciation
from the typical members of the march we got handshakes,
and hugs and some people stand and some women cry
seeing the placards it's a great and warm experience.
When the rightwing section of the present government
is trying to press for the banning of these marches
on the ground that they create no areas for Jews
and they are anti-semitic we know that this is complete rubbish
and the Very opposite is true.
Today's marches are having a very hopeful aspect
that it is so large so persistent so global that eventually
the Western leadership which are trying to deny
what is actually going on will be forced to face up to it
and I think we are not far from that.
I think there was no parallel to that in the Jewish Holocaust experience
in fact there was great abandonment certainly from the leadership
of the country there were some very few very brave people
who risk everything to be on the right side of history
and to rescue as many as possible but the majority of people
were too afraid and looked the other way.
There is a question of historic responsibility towards Injustice,
genocide and fascism if you are just indifferent if you do not take a stand
you acquire a degree of guilt without any doubt
and I think it is imperative to assert opposition
and even at some degree of disadvantage and risk
if you want to be guilt free
when history judges What's happening.
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