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.
4 December
EINSTEIN ON ZIONIST PARTIES "AKIN TO NAZIS"
On this day in 1948, Albert Einstein and other prominent US Jews had a letter published in the New York Times denouncing the Herut Party, the predecessor of Netanyau’s Likud, as “closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.” Herut used “gangster methods” and “inaugurated a reign of terror in the Palestine Jewish community” as well as against Palestinians. Herut founder Menachem Begin received the Nobel Peace Prize 30 years later.
"شبه أينشتاين الأحزاب الصهيونية "بالنازية
4 ديسمبر
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 1948 ، نشر ألبرت أينشتاين وغيره من اليهود الأمريكيين البارزين رسالة في صحيفة نيويورك تايمز تدين حزب حيروت ، سلف حزب الليكود برئاسه نتنياهو حاليا، باعتباره "قريبًا جدًا في تنظيمه وأساليبه وفلسفته السياسية وجاذبيته الاجتماعية للأحزاب النازية والفاشية ". استخدم حيروت "أساليب العصابات" و "افتتح عهد الإرهاب ضد الجالية اليهودية في فلسطين " وكذلك ضد الفلسطينيين. حصل مؤسس حيروت مناحيم بيغن على جائزة نوبل للسلام بعد 30 عامًا.
Albert Einstein, along with other Jewish luminaries, including Hannah Arendt, published a letter in the New York Times on December 4, 1948. That was only a few months after Israel had declared its independence and as hundreds of Palestinian villages were being actively demolished after their inhabitants were expelled. The letter denounced Israel’s newly-founded Herut party and its young leader, Menachem Begin.
For a letter of this nature to appear a mere few years after the end of World War II and the devastation of the Holocaust is a profound indication of the clear chasm that existed among Jewish intellectuals at the time: the Zionists who supported Israel and its violent birth, and those who took the high moral ground and objected to it. Sadly, the latter group – although still in existence – had lost the battle.
Herut later merged with other groups to form the Likud Party. Begin received the Nobel Peace Prize and the Likud is now the leading party in Israel’s most right-wing government coalition. The ‘Nazi and Fascist’-like philosophy of Herut have prevailed, and it now engulfs and defines mainstream society in Israel...
In response to ongoing popular protests by besieged Palestinians in Gaza, and in justification of the high number of deaths and injuries inflicted on the unarmed protesters by the Israeli army, Lieberman argued that “there are no innocent people in Gaza.” When the Defense Minister of a country espouses this kind of belief, one can hardly be shocked that Israeli snipers are shooting Palestinian youngsters, while cheering on camera as they hit their target...
Israeli politician, Ayelet Shaked, has often called for genocide against Palestinians. Palestinians “are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads,” she wrote in a Facebook post in 2015. “Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs … They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.”
A few months after the publication of the statement, Netanyahu, in December 2015, appointed her as the country’s Justice Minister."
Israeli Channel 13 news played recordings on air of instructors at a top Israeli religious academy...a seminary instructor explains that Hitler was “most righteous” and Nazi ideology was internally consistent, moral, and a cure for Jews whose disease is that they don’t emigrate to Israel.
4-minute video: Israeli rabbis tell students that “Hitler was correct in every word he said… he was just on the wrong side.”https://youtu.be/3XB72y1Lm90