“I have such contempt for these individuals. They are justifying genocide!”
Holocaust survivor denounces Zionist slander of protests against genocide in Gaza
An upcoming rally in Michigan against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, organized by Holocaust survivor Rene Lichtman, has been slandered as “antisemitic” by prominent Zionists on X/Twitter.
The rally is scheduled to take place in front of the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, on Sunday, July 14. It will be the latest in a series of weekly rallies being held to demand the museum recognize the Nakba of 1948 in its educational programs about the founding of Israel, and to demand that the museum call for a ceasefire in Gaza now.
Lichtman, age 86, is a “hidden child” Holocaust survivor whose Polish-Jewish family was largely murdered by Hitler’s Nazis during World War Two. He has spent his life fighting to uncover and preserve the history of the Holocaust.
He explained to this reporter the conception behind Sunday’s protest: “Museums like this are part of the right-wing, pro-Zionist structure. They indoctrinate the public that shows up, especially the students, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who come through each day, busloads of students. They tell the story of the Holocaust and the Jewish victims and at the end they say the war was over and the survivors created this wonderful state of Israel, with beautiful trees and so on. And that’s the ending! The lesson is tolerance, and we should love each other and so on. But they never mention Palestinians or the Nakba.
“We are demanding that the museum change the ending, that they include the Nakba. And, that they demand a ceasefire in Gaza, now.”
“It’s not only the Holocaust Center, in Farmington Hills, that erases Palestinians from history”, Lichtman explained. “I’ve been to most of the Holocaust museums—in Berlin, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Prague—because of my work with the child survivors’ organization. And they’re all the same. At the end they paint this rosy picture which does not include Palestinians.”
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