Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
18 January
On 18th January 2009, Michael Warschawski condemned Israeli political figures commemorating Jewish WWII resistance heroes: “Don’t you dare show your faces at any memorial ceremony for the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto, Lublin, Vilna or Kishinev…You are not Anne Frank of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp but Hans Frank, the German general who acted to starve and destroy the Jews of Poland. Today the Warsaw Ghetto is right in front of you, targeted by your own tanks and artillery, and its name is Gaza.”
18 يناير 2021م
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2009 ، أدان مايكل ورشوسكي الشخصيات السياسية الإسرائيلية التي تحيي ذكرى أبطال المقاومة اليهود في الحرب العالمية الثانية: "عليكم ألا تجرؤا على إظهار وجوهكم في أي احتفال تذكاري لأبطال غيتو وارسو أو لوبلين أو فيلنا أو كيشينيف ... أنتم لستم آن فرانك من مراكزالاعتقال الجماعي بيرغن بيلسن بل انتم هانز فرانك ، الجنرال الألماني الذي عمل على تجويع وتدمير يهود بولندا. اليوم ، غيتو وارسو أمامكم مباشرة ، مستهدف بدباباتم ومدفعيتم ، واسمه غزة ".
Israel’s policies in Gaza are genocidal, Haidar Eid in Gaza
The 1948 Genocide Convention clearly states that one instance of genocide is “the deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of a people in whole or in part.” No matter whether this happens at a fast rate, or in “slow motion.” That is what has been done to Gaza since the imposition of the blockade by Israel, and the subsequent massacres which led to the death of more than 4000 Palestinians in three successive genocidal wars.
On 18th January 2009, Michael Warschawski condemned Israeli political figures commemorating Jewish WWII resistance heroes: “Don’t you dare show your faces at any memorial ceremony for the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto, Lublin, Vilna or Kishinev…You are not Anne Frank of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp but Hans Frank, the German general who acted to starve and destroy the Jews of Poland. Today the Warsaw Ghetto is right in front of you, targeted by your own tanks and artillery, and its name is Gaza.”