Marking the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 80th Anniversary
On April 19, 1943 Nazi forces entered the Warsaw Ghetto with the stated objective of rounding up and deporting all Jews there to death camps but were attacked by organized Zionist fighters.
Moshe Phillips is national director of Herut North America’s U.S. division. Herut is an international movement for Zionist pride and education and its U.S. website is https://herutna.org/
On April 19, 1943 Nazi forces entered the Warsaw Ghetto with the stated objective of rounding up and deporting all Jews there to death camps but were attacked by organized Zionist fighters.
Holocaust survivor Dr. David Wdowinski published his eyewitness account of the Holocaust in Poland in 1963 with the title “And We Are Not Saved.”
In a time when offensive jokes or comments made even decades ago can cause someone to lose their job, it shouldn’t be surprising that a comment with blatant antisemitic overtones caused such an uproar.
Yoni Netanyahu played a key role in many other crucial Israeli security operations, exhibiting courage and valor in the most dangerous of circumstances.
This is Zionism. This is Judaism. This is the love of a brother being responsible for a brother. This is beautiful and it is eternal. Let us be worthy of listening for today’s calls and step forward.
In the event, Ajlouny began by accusing Israel of being “created on a false premise of a land without people, through ethnic cleansing, massacres, and forcing over 700,000 Palestinian to flee.”
These threats to boycott the JNF are deeply troubling on many levels. But they also present a welcome opportunity for some serious clarification of the broader Jewish debate on these issues.
Where is the spirit of “inquiry” in hosting a program where only one side of a controversy is aired?
Over the years, the Zionist narrative became simplified and little room was left to recall those who came before Herzl.