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   Below is a letter signed by ten Holocaust survivors condemning the   
   genocide in Gaza and the misuse of antisemitism accusations by   
   politicians.   
      
      
   The co-founder of Human Rights Watch, Aryeh Neier, has recently said   
   that Israel is engaged in genocide in Gaza. He’s also said that using   
   accusations of antisemitism to attack Israel’s critics “debases the   
   whole concept of antisemitism.” As Holocaust survivors, we are writing   
   to agree wholeheartedly with Professor Neier — who himself only   
   survived the Holocaust by escaping Nazi Germany as a child in 1939.   
      
   At a recent Holocaust memorial, Netanyahu declared: “We’ll defeat our   
   genocidal enemies. Never again is now!”   
      
   Meanwhile, at another memorial, Biden warned of a “ferocious surge of   
   antisemitism” on college campuses.   
      
   In our opinion, to use the memory of the Holocaust like this to   
   justify either genocide in Gaza or repression on college campuses is a   
   complete insult to the memory of the Holocaust.   
      
   The dehumanization of Palestinians, describing them as “human   
   animals,” the killing of tens of thousands of civilians,   
   indiscriminate bombing, the destruction of universities and hospitals,   
   and the use of mass starvation — these are clearly stages of ethnic   
   cleansing and genocide. They cannot be defended any more than sending   
   weapons to commit this genocide or refusing funding to UNRWA. With no   
   better arguments, our politicians have resorted to misusing the memory   
   of the Holocaust while claiming that protesting against Israeli   
   genocide is somehow antisemitic.   
      
   As Holocaust survivors, we have no special authority on the Middle   
   East but we do know about antisemitism. It’s simply wrong to claim   
   that it’s antisemitic to oppose Israeli genocide. It’s also wrong to   
   claim that calling for equal rights for Jews and Arabs “from the river   
   to the sea” is antisemitic.   
      
   As Holocaust survivors, we are just a few individuals but we want to   
   add our voices to the growing global movement to demand a permanent   
   ceasefire, an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and for the West to stop   
   arming and supporting genocide.   
      
   Signatories   
      
   Jacques Bude (Brussels Belgium), survived in hiding in Belgium,   
   parents killed in Auschwitz.   
      
   Marione Ingram (Washington DC), survived in hiding in Nazi Germany.   
      
   Stephen Kapos (London UK), survived the Budapest ghetto.   
      
   H. Richard Leuchtag (Houston TX), escaped Germany in 1938.   
      
   Rene Lichtman (Southfield MI), survived in hiding in France.   
      
   Adam Policzer (Vancouver BC), survived in hiding in Hungary.   
      
   Lillian Rosengarten (Cold Spring NY), escaped Germany in 1936.   
      
   Suzanne Ross (New York), escaped Nazi-occupied Belgium   
      
   Suzanne Berliner Weiss (Toronto Ont.), survived in hiding in France,   
   mother killed in Auschwitz.   
      
   Ervin Somogyi (Oakland, CA), survivor from Hungary.   
      
   https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/ten-holocaust-survivors-condemn-i   
   raels-gaza-genocide/   
      
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