January 27, 2014

What Happens When You Hold Peace Talks in Ramallah?

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / Jeremy Elster

To see what happens when you hold peace talks in Ramallah and to learn more about “normalization”, watch the video below…

<a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/126342/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">What Happens When You Hold Peace Talks in Ramallah?</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div> </div> </div>  </article> <article class="post-126358 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-opinion tag-eurointegration tag-euromaidan tag-kiev tag-maidan tag-protests tag-ukraine ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-126358" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/126358/" rel="bookmark">We care about Ukraine</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/126358/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/commentary/opinion/" rel="category tag">Opinion</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> We Jews cannot forget millennium-long atrocities and persecutions, and we shall never forget about the Holocaust. But we also remember our struggle for freedom and independence. Zionism is a Jewish national movement that proved to be able to revive the Jewish national state on its biblical land. In the time of trials, not many states and politicians favored our national idea. Although almost alone, we fought for our future, our children and our freedom, and we succeeded. Support of a few nations in the War of Independence in 1948 was of utmost importance. The post-Holocaust Jewish nation enduring enormous difficulties prevailed. The State of Israel is an everlasting proof of the implementation of a national idea.</p> <p> Nowadays, Ukraine is in flames. Its capital, Kiev, resembles a war zone. Ukrainian people rose up on Nov. 21, 2013, being deceived by their own government. This government was to sign an Agreement of Association with the European Union. A week before the Euro-integration summit in Vilnius, the government withdrew from the agreement. Political analysts regard this decision to have been a dictate from President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. Instead of Euro-integration, an association with the Russian-led Custom Union came up as an alternative plan. Ukraine is an important factor in Russia’s geopolitical games of reviving the empire. Without Ukraine, Russia, in political terms, is reduced to an Asian power. For Putin, an image of Ukraine as a member of European Union equates with a geostrategic failure of retaining the former Soviet borders intact. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych accepted the Russian monetary credit in the amount of $15 billion that has negated a prospective Euro-integration.</p> <p> A new generation of Ukrainians gathered at the Independence Square in Kiev in peaceful protest against the betrayal of their dreams to become part of Europe and no longer be politically and economically subordinated to the Russian Federation. During the protests, known as Euromaidan, the riot police brutally attacked and dispersed young people, using inadequate force. Many were severely beaten and ended up in hospitals. The violent force by the authorities only caused a rising resistance. </p> <p> Peaceful protesters ultimately lost patience on Jan. 16, when the government enacted laws resembling martial law. These laws were adopted with all possible violations of parliamentary procedures and regulations and by its very nature are unconstitutional. People took the protests to the streets. They began building a barricade in the government quarter and open clashes with riot police and military interior forces commenced. Since then, there have been at least five dead and many wounded on the protesters’ side.</p> <p> Ukrainian people in the regions followed suit and started taking over the governmental administrative building, forcing the governors of the ruling political party (the Party of Regions) to resign. The government answered with unleashing the war-like police and internal military forces.</p> <p> The world must realize that Ukrainian nationalists or Ukrainian radicals initiated the conflict. They are not seeking the power. It is true — they are in the first rows, confronting the riot police and internal military forces. However thousands of ordinary Ukrainians from all over the country are on the front lines as well. They are fighting for a free and democratic country; they are against the corrupt Russian government; they want to build a nation and an independent state. They want a secure future for their children.</p> <p> The time has come to forget the old Soviet propaganda myths about the Ukrainian nationalists and Ukraine in general. Ukrainians, like Jews, want to live in a country of their own where they can freely speak the Ukrainian language, where they can make a European choice and ultimately live in a country no longer under Russian dictate.</p> <p> We, the Jews, care about Ukrainian independence and Ukraine people. We can say, in the time of trials, the Jews are on the side of a free and democratic Ukraine. </p> <hr /> <p> <em>Dr. Vladimir Melamed is Director of Archive, Library and Historical Curatorship at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust</em></p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/126358/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">We care about Ukraine</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div> </div> </div>  </article> <article class="post-126356 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-opinion tag-ben-urwand tag-hollywood tag-hup tag-nazi tag-scandal tag-the-collaboration-hollywoods-pact-with-hitler ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-126356" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/126356/" rel="bookmark">Why Harvard should withdraw ‘The Collaboration’</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/126356/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/commentary/opinion/" rel="category tag">Opinion</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> It is a compelling story. A young Jewish researcher teaches himself German and ultimately spends years combing through Nazi archives in search of evidence to support a heinous claim uttered by an old man. In cold vaults, and often alone, the young man, whose own maternal grandparents narrowly missed becoming victims of the Holocaust, sifts through thousands of documents, and in one particularly tough year, views 400 films.</p> <p> At night, the damning documents he has read during the day slice through his sleep. Between old movies and old memos, he fears his eyes will soon become rectangular.</p> <p> Finally, the stalwart researcher could only come to one horrific conclusion: In the 1930s, Hollywood’s Jewish movie men enthusiastically aided Hitler and his Nazi regime’s global propaganda effort in order to preserve an important foreign market. The old man was right! The young man knows he must be brave, for no one will be happy to read this story. The truth hurts, after all.</p> <p> This is not the plot of an upcoming arthouse film, or even the storyline for a feature documentary. Instead, it is the back story for one of the most intensely discussed new books, “The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler,” published by Harvard University Press (HUP) and authored by Jewish-Australian Ben Urwand, now a junior Harvard fellow based in Cambridge, Mass.</p> <p> Shrewdly anticipating the massive response, HUP took the unusual step of hiring Goldberg McDuffie Communications, a high-profile public relations firm, whose usual clients are established best-selling authors and major corporations. With the book due for release last September, a press release was issued in June pointing to Urwand’s amazing claims, his years of research, learning German, and his Jewish background and grandparents.</p> <p> GMC took the even stranger step of comparing “The Collaboration” to “Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939,” a book released earlier in the year by Thomas Doherty, an esteemed film historian and academic from Brandeis University. The press release inferred Doherty had taken the easy way out using trade papers as sources, whereas the young researcher had slaved away in German and other archives.</p> <p> In late June, staff editor Jennifer Schuessler of The New York Times picked up the story, giving Urwand a dream start. Deborah Lipstadt, a Holocaust historian at Emory University, said the story was “breathtaking” and she was anxious to read it. There were dissenting opinions from Doherty and Steven J. Ross, a longtime film historian and academic from the University of Southern California. But Urwand had the last word, condemning the Jewish studio heads and executives as “collaborating” with Hitler, pointing to this as the very word they used in their correspondence between the studios and the Nazi regime.</p> <p> It’s safe to say the summer of 2013 was Urwand’s. He was feted as courageous, his book as very brave. He was flown around the U.S. and overseas, giving interviews and making dozens of personal appearances, ranging from bookstores to Jewish literary festivals. In some instances, online articles repeating Urwand’s claims were posted to social media sites thousands of times.</p> <p> But it didn’t last. By late August, the rebuttals began to flow from nearly two dozen prominent academics, historians, film journalists, authors and even an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. Their negative reviews and full rebuttals, often many thousands of words long and usually providing history lessons of their own, were carried in major news outlets and prestigious literary journals.</p> <p> There was also a flurry of controversy coverage, including lengthy articles from Jon Wiener in The Nation that brought up issues spanning back to the book’s inception as Urwand’s thesis at Berkeley, and a hilarious article from Tom Carson, writing for The American Prospect that poked fun at Sir Richard Evans, Urwand’s one high profile supporter who, with not a bit of bluster, had called some critics of the book, “Hollywood attack dogs” on Twitter.</p> <p> Even Urwand’s talks came into question, with veteran British film historian Joel W. Finler accusing the author of manipulating his audience during an appearance at the Wiener Library, a Holocaust studies center in London.</p> <p> <a href="http://hollywoodessays.com/2013/09/14/the-dark-side-of-book-publicity-is-revealed-as-negative-reviews-flow-in-for-ben-urwands-the-collaboration-hollywoods-pact-with-hitler/" target="_blank">Links to all rebuttals, negative reviews and controversy coverage here.</a></p> <p> But December would see the most damning rebuttal of all by journalist, editor and author Mark Horowitz writing in Tablet Magazine, the first of the Jewish media to cover the book with a positive review in June by David Mikics.</p> <p> Horowitz clinically eviscerated Urwand’s claims, saying the book had “error or lunacy on every page” and a full fact check would need to be book-length itself. Horowitz called “The Collaboration” dangerous and anti-Semitic (as have others), but said the damage the book had done was so substantial it was simply too late for corrections.</p> <p> A torrid seven months was capped with “The Collaboration” ignominiously included in the Los Angeles Times’ list of the top five literary scandals of 2013.</p> <p> So how did it all go so horribly wrong for Ben Urwand?</p> <p> The problems began with the book’s title. The terms “collaborate” and “pact” have a specific meaning in the context of WWII and Urwand’s book could never prove the Jewish moguls and executives were guilty of these claims.</p> <p> The German equivalent of the word “collaborate” used in the correspondence, <em>zusammenarbeit</em>, is commonly used to refer to normal business activity, and certainly in the key years, no one had any inkling of a murderous regime. “Pact” is a technical term relating to two formal nation-to-nation contracts from the time. The studios did have contracts with the regime, as they did with most foreign entities they dealt with; these stipulated distribution rights, fees, timing and the like.</p> <p> Most commentators were also scathing about the book’s more than 300 endnotes as evaporating like a desert mirage upon close scrutiny. And it is here that the old man and his shocking accusation comes in. Endnote 163, to give one example, is intended to support the claim by producer Budd Schulberg that MGM studio chief, Louis B. Mayer, screened movies for the Nazi consul, George Gyssling.</p> <p> It is this premise that underpins “The Collaboration,” but was also the inspiration for Urwand’s years of research. However, endnote 163 is a transcript of Schulberg telling a writer about hearing the Mayer/Gyssling story from someone else, whom he does not even name. As Schulberg was known to hate Mayer, he is hardly a reliable witness, but in any event, endnote 163 is hearsay.</p> <p> Another endnote house of cards from “The Collaboration” also centers on Mayer (who Urwand paints as chief Shylock) and relates to what has now become an infamous quote repeated hundreds, maybe thousands of times as a result of this book.</p> <p> In relation to a proposed anti-Nazi film, “Mad Dog of Europe,” Mayer is accused of saying: “We have interests in Germany; I represent the picture industry here in Hollywood; we have exchanges there; we have terrific income in Germany and, as far as I am concerned, this picture will never be made.”</p> <p> However, the quote attributed to Mayer is, in fact, testimony from an independent producer who was suing MGM, another hostile source.</p> <p> Just as damning, but more tragic, is that Urwand has stripped the book of any of the vital context of the time, including pervasive and frightening American anti-Semitism, constrictive regulatory pressures and even the influence of organizations that pressed studio heads to take some actions and not others. But finally, the notion one could tell the story of Jews through the lens of Nazi archival material is at once ridiculous and naive, but ultimately an example of victim blaming.</p> <p> With so many flaws, “The Collaboration” is an academic and publishing scandal. The book can no longer be used as a citable source in academia, and the material within the book that is worthwhile is clouded by everything else that has been called into question. Certainly, Urwand’s own career as an academic and historian is impacted by the controversy.</p> <p> Clearly, HUP should immediately withdraw the book from sale and complete a full, independent fact check. This action is not without precedence. Jon Wiener, in his book “Historians in Trouble,” points to David Abraham’s “Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis,” which was withdrawn by Princeton University in 1984 after the author conceded its footnotes contained significant errors. And when confronted about errors during his talk at the Sydney Jewish Museum in December 2013, Urwand said he would withdraw the book if any could be found.</p> <p> Just as history repeats itself, it appears scandals involving historians do too.</p> <p> In the late 1940s, pugnacious Dutch historian Pieter Geyl initiated a long-running, often bitter debate in print and through radio with English historian Arnold Toynbee, whom he accused of selectively using evidence to support his pre-conceived notions, and handily ignoring that which did not. For Geyl, who spent four years imprisoned by the Nazis including in Buchenwald concentration camp, Toynbee represented a type of historian who dealt in sophistry; whose research and analysis was tainted by a personal agenda that could never result in either the accurate telling of history or even the sound debating of it.</p> <p> Geyl would have had a field day with Urwand, who, for whatever reason, marches his readers to a morally bereft finish line where Jews are as culpable as Nazis for the persecution of their fellow Jews.</p> <p> As a grand-niece of Mayer, I remain proud of my great-uncle’s legacy. He was no angel, none of Hollywood’s founders were. It took blood, sweat, tears and tons of <em>chutzpah</em> to create the motion picture business into one of America’s most successful industries. But collaborators they were not. Nor did they have a pact with Hitler.</p> <p> In fact, research by Ross and Laura Rosenzweig, who teaches American Jewish history at San Francisco State, shows that Mayer and several others, including Irving Thalberg, secretly paid huge sums for spies to infiltrate pro-Nazi groups at their own expense.</p> <p> <a href="http://hollywoodessays.com/2013/09/14/the-dark-side-of-book-publicity-is-revealed-as-negative-reviews-flow-in-for-ben-urwands-the-collaboration-hollywoods-pact-with-hitler/" target="_blank">For a link to Dr. Rosenzweig’s research click here and see #25 on this list of rebuttals, negative reviews and controversy coverage for The Collaboration.</a></p> <p> Perhaps the Jewish moguls and executives did even more. Perhaps they simply didn’t do enough. We may never know.</p> <p> But as Jews in an often hostile environment and paid executives for corporations with shareholders back East, whatever they did, they wouldn’t have shouted it from the rooftops. And perhaps comments and actions were made precisely to pull attention away from covert activities.</p> <p> Along with Ross’ and Rosenzweig’s research and upcoming books, strong evidence of resistance has been pointed to by Doherty and can be found in the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors digital archive (a project of eminent film historian and author Richard J. Maltby of Flinders University in Australia).</p> <p> If there is one silver lining to “The Collaboration,” it is the ongoing debate and new research it will spur in the years to come. But let’s start with sound history telling.</p> <p> Despite certainty from many commentators that “The Collaboration” is discredited, Urwand has been invited to speak at several Holocaust-related organizations, including the Museum of Tolerance in New York City. He continues to be invited to speak at JCC events and other venues around the U.S. and overseas.</p> <p> I call on Urwand and HUP to withdraw “The Collaboration” immediately and address its many fatal flaws identified by so many. This is the only action that can hope to dial back the gross acceptance of the author’s claims and help restore the many fine legacies, such as my great-uncle’s, which his book has wrongly attacked.</p> <p>  </p> <hr /> <p> <em>Alicia Mayer is a book editor and a grandniece of Louis B. Mayer. She writes about early film history on her blog, <a href="http://www.hollywoodessays.com" target="_blank">hollywoodessays.com</a>.</em></p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/126356/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Why Harvard should withdraw ‘The Collaboration’</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div> </div> </div>  </article> <article class="post-126355 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-books category-arts tag-book tag-holocaust tag-jew tag-jewish ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-126355" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/126355/" rel="bookmark">Six million reasons I don’t like the new Holocaust book</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/126355/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/culture/arts/books/" rel="category tag">Books</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/culture/arts/" rel="category tag">Entertainment</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <div itemprop="articleBody"> <p> I admit it. I dropped the ball on the story about the new remember-the-Holocaust-by-printing-the-word-Jew-six-million-times book. I saw it sitting in a veteran Jewish journalist’s office a week ago, but forgot to bring it up to my fellow JTA editors.</p> <p> And then I look at the front page of the Times on Sunday and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/world/middleeast/holocaust-told-in-one-word-6-million-times.html?_r=0">there it is</a>.</p> <p> The truth is, when I first looked through it, I couldn’t get past wondering about the copy editor. Did he/she have the easiest or hardest job in the world?</p> <p> But thinking about it more later, the project rubbed me the wrong way. And my uneasiness only increased after reading the author — maybe creator is the better word — explain the project to the Times’ Jerusalem bureau chief, Jodi Rudoren.</p> <blockquote> <p data-para-count="386" data-total-count="833" itemprop="articleBody"> “When you look at this at a distance, you can’t tell whether it’s upside down or right side up, you can’t tell what’s here; it looks like a pattern,” said Phil Chernofsky, the author, though that term may be something of a stretch. “That’s how the Nazis viewed their victims: These are not individuals, these are not people, these are just a mass we have to exterminate.</p> <p data-para-count="386" data-total-count="833" itemprop="articleBody"> “Now get closer, put on your reading glasses, and pick a ‘Jew,’ ” Mr. Chernofsky continued. “That Jew could be you. Next to him is your brother. Oh, look, your uncles and aunts and cousins and your whole extended family. A row, a line, those are your classmates. Now you get lost in a kind of meditative state where you look at one word, ‘Jew,’ you look at one Jew, you focus on it and then your mind starts to go because who is he, where did he live, what did he want to do when he grew up?”</p> </blockquote> <p data-para-count="386" data-total-count="833" itemprop="articleBody"> I have no major quibble with seeing this book as a testament to how Nazis looked at the Jews. But for the same reason that it might work on that level, it strikes me as a terrible form of memorialization, especially since most of Hitler’s Jewish victims are not nameless.</p> <p data-para-count="386" data-total-count="833" itemprop="articleBody"> Rudoren’s story went right to my next thought — <a href="http://db.yadvashem.org/names/search.html?language=en">Yad Vashem and it database of victims</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p data-para-count="469" data-total-count="2369" itemprop="articleBody"> While many Jewish leaders in the United States have embraced the book, some Holocaust educators consider it a gimmick. It takes the opposite tack of a <a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/remembrance/names/">multimillion-dollar effort</a> over many years by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial and museum here, that has so far documented the identities of 4.3 million Jewish victims. These fill the monumental “<a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/pavilion_auschwitz/design.asp">Book of Names</a>,” 6 1/2 feet tall and 46 feet in circumference, which was unveiled last summer at Auschwitz-Birkenau.</p> <p data-para-count="359" data-total-count="2728" itemprop="articleBody"> “We have no doubt that this is the right way to deal with the issue,” said Avner Shalev, Yad Vashem’s director. “We understand that human life, human beings, individuals are at the center of our research and education. This is the reason we are investing so much in trying to retrieve every single human being, his name, and details about his life.”</p> </blockquote> <p data-para-count="386" data-total-count="833" itemprop="articleBody"> Clearly this project works for some folks. According to the Times, the ADL’s Abe Foxman lined up a few donors to buy 3,000 copies to send around.</p> <p data-para-count="386" data-total-count="833" itemprop="articleBody"> “When he brought me this book I said, ‘Wow, wow, it makes it so real,’” Foxman reportedly said. “It’s haunting.” (OK, I’m a little hurt about not being on Abe’s comp list, but I promise that has nothing to do with this post.)</p> <p> But still, I just don’t see it. The Nazis may have indeed murdered our people en masse, but that’s no reason for us to play along. We have 4.3 million actual names. I’d rather see them put in a book and have people ruminate on that.</p> </div> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/126355/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Six million reasons I don’t like the new Holocaust book</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div> </div> </div>  </article> <article class="post-126354 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-opinion tag-israel tag-two-state-solution tag-west-bank ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-126354" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/126354/" rel="bookmark">A weekend in the West Bank</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/126354/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/commentary/opinion/" rel="category tag">Opinion</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> This past weekend I visited the West Bank (or if you prefer, Judea and Samaria) through my participation in Masa Israel’s Israel Government Fellows program run by the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. For two days the Israel Government Fellows enjoyed informative meetings with Palestinian Arabs and Jewish settlers. We visited Hebron, Efrat, Shilo, and Eli. To add some perspective, few believe that Efrat wouldn’t be annexed to Israel in a two-state solution. Eli, in contrast, is a very controversial settlement. While I learned much, this sojourn reminded me how easy it can be to make assumptions when looking at the Arab-Israeli conflict as an outsider.</p> <p> One Palestinian we met in the West Bank works as a Field Agent for B'tselem – the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. He was born in a refugee camp and has spent time in Israeli prison. Nevertheless, he confided in us that he was terrified of what form a Palestinian State in the West Bank might take. He implored us to look around at the rest of the Arab World.</p> <p> In terms of government, how would sovereignty impact the West Bank’s current reasonably transparent democratic elections? Is it so hard to believe that a truly autonomous government in the West Bank won’t quickly turn autocratic? Few in Gaza can safely and publicly decry Hamas and even under occupation, one could plausibly argue that West Bank Palestinians currently enjoy greater access to protest than say, Arabs living in the newly formed regimes of <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/20/restricting-speech-restricts-arab-freedom" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Egypt or Tunisia</span></a>.</p> <p> Compared to their counterparts in the rest of the Arab World, Palestinian women are among the best educated. Though women may not be able to drive in Saudi Arabia, Palestinian women are making a splash in headlines as the first Arab women in the World <a href="http://www.cnn.co.il/2013/01/24/world/meast/speed-sisters-palestinian-motor-racing/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">to race on the international motorsport circuit</span></a>. While Palestinian women are leagues ahead of their counterparts from other Arab countries in terms of gender equality, it’s anybody’s guess what turn this trend would take in a future Palestinian State.</p> <p> Economically, the picture is also uncertain. Consider that in recent years, despite the intense monitoring by the NGO’s and governments which pump foreign aid into the West Bank, most Palestinians are very pessimistic about the corruption and nepotism which permeates the PLO and <a href="http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/8E6430AAFAAFC2418525789A004D12D3" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">it’s management of the economy</span></a>. Interestingly, according to a 2011 World Bank report, Palestinians actually perceive greater levels of corruption than actually exist. The question is once a truly independent state emerges in the West Bank, will this acute perception of corruption become more or less justified?</p> <p> I am certainly not arguing that Israel does a better job governing Palestinians than the Palestinians could do themselves. All peoples have a right to self-determination. I only wish to share my realization that not all Palestinians would be equally thrilled if Israel withdrew from the West Bank tomorrow, or even in the conclusion of a successful peace agreement.  I don’t doubt that Palestinians find Israel’s presence in the West Bank brutal or repressive, but they also have no illusions about the shortcomings of their own leadership.   </p> <p> <img decoding="async" alt="" src="{assets_39222:{filedir_3}hebron-children.jpeg}" style="width: 100%;" /></p> <p> <span style="font-size:10px;">Children in the old city of Hebron. Credit: Israel Government Fellows</span></p> <p> I am not writing this to push a political agenda. In fact, I believe a two-state solution is in Israel’s best interest. My point is that before my foray into the West Bank, I had been under the assumption that all Palestinians were ubiquitously hoping to have a state of their own as soon as possible. Most Western news outlets certainly make it seem that way.</p> <p> When Jewish settlers in the West Bank told me that Palestinians don’t really want their own state, I balked. Who wouldn’t?  But hearing the same story from a Palestinian claiming to speak for many of his Arab peers who (for the time being) are content with the status quo was powerful stuff. I am still unsure of what to make of the whole experience but I am reminded that when it comes to the Middle East, assumptions, particularly from Westerners, have no constructive role in conflict resolution.</p> <p> If a majority of both Palestinians and Israelis are more or less content with things as they are now, finding a solution to this conflict seems an unlikely prospect as ever. To make real progress, the world will need some of its most brilliant minds put to the task and I encourage anybody reading this to ask the difficult questions and get involved.  However, I would advise you to leave your assumptions at the door and be prepared to have your point of view shaped not by mainstream media, but the people who live and breathe the conflict daily. Don’t hear. Listen. You, like me, might just be surprised by what you learn.</p> <p> <em>Seth Clare, of Los Angeles, CA, is currently interning at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs through Masa Israel's Israel Government Fellows program.</em></p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/126354/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">A weekend in the West Bank</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div> </div> </div>  </article> <article class="post-126353 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-live_from_the_arab_spring category-mobile_20111212 category-news category-worldwide tag-auschwitz tag-holocaust-remembrance-day tag-jewish tag-nazi tag-poland ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-126353" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/126353/" rel="bookmark">Israeli parliament to convene in Poland</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/126353/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/worldwide/live_from_the_arab_spring/" rel="category tag">Live from the Arab Spring</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/mobile_20111212/" rel="category tag">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/worldwide/" rel="category tag">Worldwide</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> <strong><em>This story originally appeared on <a href="http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=39293" target="_blank">themedialine.org</a>.</em></strong></p> <p> Moved by concern that few eyewitnesses to the Holocaust remain and determined to ensure that memory of the atrocities of that era pass to the next generation, a majority of Israel's parliamentarians will fly to Poland for a single day to convene a rare out-of-country session of the Knesset and march into the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps arm-in-arm with survivors.</p> <p> At 3 a.m. on Monday, 64 members of the Knesset (parliament) including one of its 12 Arab members, its Speaker, the Chief Rabbi, and other senior officials along with 30 Holocaust survivors will board planes at Ben Gurion International Airport for the flight to Krakow. During their 16-hours on the ground, the entourage will be joined by Polish officials and join local clergy for an interfaith service commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day before entering the death camps.</p> <p> The plans for the historic trek are not without obstacles. Right-wing Polish groups have been protesting the Knesset session claiming it infringes upon Polish sovereignty.</p> <p> The historic event was the brainchild of 28-year old British-Israeli Jonny Daniels, executive director of From the Depths, a non-profit organization that works to keep memory of the tragic era alive as fewer and fewer survivors remain.</p> <p> “My wife’s grandfather was married at that time and had two daughters age 4 and 10 months, roughly the age of my own daughters today, but they were murdered in Birkenau,” Daniels told The Media Line.</p> <p> The trip is being underwritten largely by billionaire philanthropist Stewart Rahr.</p> <p> For survivor David Frankel, 77, a retired Jerusalem District Court judge originally from Hungary, the trip will be deeply personal.</p> <p> “If you want to visit your relatives, you go to Tel Aviv or New York,” he told The Media Line. “The only place I can visit is Auschwitz. I am going to unite with the memories of my relatives. They have no grave. I will say <em>kaddish</em> (the Jewish prayer of mourning) for them there.”</p> <p> It will be Frankel’s fifth trip to Auschwitz but the first time he will be traveling with so many members of Israel’s parliament. He said that even after all of these years he finds it hard to grasp that half a million Hungarian Jews were murdered in just five weeks in 1944.</p> <p> “The trip is a message to the world of 'never again,'” Frankel said. “We can never forget what happened there.”</p> <div style="float:right;padding-left:15px;padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;"> <div style="border: 1px solid black;padding:7px;" ><a href="http://www.themedialine.org" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="http://www.jewishjournal.com/images/themedialine-160-7-11.jpg" /></a></div> </div> <p> Even after all of these years, survivor Gita Kofman, 75, gets emotional when she speaks about the Holocaust.</p> <p> “This is not an easy trip to make at my age,” she told The Media Line. “But I do it in memory of my mother and all of my other relatives who died there. It is a great privilege to go as part of a delegation from the state of Israel. If Israel had existed at the time of the Holocaust, I am convinced it never would have happened.”</p> <p> In deference to the advanced ages of participating survivors, three doctors and a nurse will travel with the group.</p> <p> MK Issawi Frej, an Israeli Arab who is a member of a left-wing Jewish party said he tried to convince the other 11 Arab members to join the trip, but to no avail. “I think they are making a mistake,” he said. “This is not a Jewish issue. It is a human issue and affects all of us.”</p> <p> “It doesn’t matter if the victims were Jews or Arabs – the Holocaust was a crime against humanity,” Frej, told The Media Line. “Every person must visit himself to see what evil humanity is capable of and to learn from it so we won’t repeat it.”</p> <p> MK Aliza Lavie told The Media Line that for the one-minute speaking time allotted to each Knesset member at Auschwitz, she will use hers to recall Toby Trackeltaub, who amazingly created a Passover Haggadah (prayer book that contains the order for the Seder meal) written on toilet paper and handed to a friend before Toby expired during the infamous January 1945 death march.  Trackeltaub became famous after Lavie included her six-sentences in a book she published called, “Jewish Women's Prayer Book.”</p> <p> Referring to the religious admonition to Jews to retell the story of the Exodus from Egypt in each generation, Lavie explains that, “in each generation the story must be retold in the language and imagery of that generation. Toby’s vision of freedom and declaration of faith ring out in defiance of the wretchedness of her imprisonment and seeming abandonment by God.”</p> <p> In a stark illustration of the decline of the Holocaust generation, Daniels told The Media Line that only recently he had lunch with an 87-year old survivor who was excited to hear about plans for the Poland trip. But Daniels said, “His daughter just called to tell me he had a stroke and was in the hospital. It stressed to me why [this trip] had to happen now.”</p> <p> Veteran Israeli journalist Yaakov Ahimeir, who will be covering the trip, said, “It’s another dimension of the closeness of the state of Israel with the events of the Holocaust. I hope this very public visit will not replace personal thoughts but it is still very important.”</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/126353/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Israeli parliament to convene in Poland</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div> </div> </div>  </article> <article class="post-126351 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-live_from_the_arab_spring tag-assyrian tag-bashar-assad tag-christian tag-middle-east tag-orthodox tag-syria ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-126351" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/live_from_the_arab_spring/126351/" rel="bookmark">Syria’s Assyrian Christians find refuge with Turkish neighbors</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/live_from_the_arab_spring/126351/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/worldwide/live_from_the_arab_spring/" rel="category tag">Live from the Arab Spring</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> <strong><em>This story originally appeared on <a href="http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=39329" target="_blank">themedialine.org</a>.</em></strong></p> <p> Miydat's Assyrian Orthodox community is still encumbered with festive cookies and candied nuts from their Christmas festivities. In every home, tables groan with remnants from the recent celebrations, which for many of Midyat's residents found themseslves in situations far safer than the previous holiday spent in Syria.</p> <p> Often reported to be sympathetic to the regime of Syrian president Bashar Assad, although all the Christians in Midyat are quick to assert their neutrality, Syria's christian and Assyrian communities have come under an increased threat from more extreme Sunni rebel groups, like Jabhat Al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS); and many have sought refuge across the border in Turkey's south-eastern provinces.</p> <p> “The Islamists were kidnapping us. It's another kind of terrorism,” said Kalill, a former resident of Al-Qamishli, now living as a refugee in Midyat with the help of the local Assyrian community. A journalist by trade, Kalill had been critical of the <em>Jihadists </em>in the north of Syria near his home. “I didn't know which day the Islamist groups would come into my home. I had been writing against them, so I was threatened,” he told The Media Line.</p> <p> Turkey is home to nearly 600,000 registered Syrian refugees with hundreds of thousands more living in the country without registering with the authorities. The presence of refugees from minority groups within Turkey is a 'see it to believe it' phenomenon, with most Turks and Syrian's refusing to believe they exist. Abuna Ishok Ergun, a Syriac-Orthodox priest in Midyat, says many of the Christians who end up in Midyat do so because, “In Istanbul they won't accept them as refugees because they say there is no problem.”</p> <p> But the refugee population of Turkey is not a homogenous group. While the country geographically and politically lends itself to the arrival of large numbers of mainly Sunni Muslim refugees from Syria's north, amongst them live Kurds, Alawites and Christians.</p> <p> Each group is assisted by their closest Turkish relatives, be that literal – as is the case with many of the Kurdish refugees who arrive in the country and stay with family; or figurative – like the Alevi mosques in Istanbul who aid their Alawite neighbours.</p> <p> The Assyrian community in Midyat, close-knit and supportive, is initially suspicious of a stranger but they soon open up and welcome the chance to tell their stories.</p> <p> Sahaleb Mouza, who left Syria seven months ago, says he likes Midyat and has been welcomed by the local Assyrian networks, but he misses home. “It's not like Syria. It's not like my own country,” Saheleb told The Media Line. He said he took his children and left because, “We were in Qamishli; there's no electricity for eight hours a day and no schools for the children. There is no future.”</p> <p> The Raber family now shares a small apartment in Midyat. Their boys, aged 22, 20 and 19, fled Al-Hasakah with their mother after their father was killed by <em>Jihadist</em> groups who later attempted to kill one of the brothers. They receive help “sometimes from the church and sometimes from family.” Eziky, the eldest son, said, “We are safer here but we don't have the best life. We were studying before and now we don't do anything.”</p> <div style="float:right;padding-left:15px;padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;"> <div style="border: 1px solid black;padding:7px;" ><a href="http://www.themedialine.org" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="http://www.jewishjournal.com/images/themedialine-160-7-11.jpg" /></a></div> </div> <p> Around 1 million Assyrians were living in Syria before the conflict. They form a sub-section of the Christian community (although there is very small minority of Muslim Assyrians) of Syria, who number around 2.5 million or 10% of the population.</p> <p> The Assyrian Christians live mainly across the north east of the country, around Qamishli and Al-Hasakah, towns just over the border from Turkey which are now controlled by the Kurdish military in a place commonly referred to as 'Rojova'. Pockets of Christians also lived in Mal'oula and Saidnaya as well as in the larger cities of Aleppo, Latakia, Damascus and Homs.</p> <p> In Mal'oula, 11 Christian nuns were kidnapped in early December when the city was overrun by rebel forces. Despite the outcry from the international community and parties within Syria, the nuns remain missing. The incident is cited by all the families in Midyat as evidence of the rising sectarian violence in Syria.</p> <p> “Every ethnic group has lost everything. It's Sunni vs Shia; all the other ethnic groups have been affected,” said Kalill. “In Qamishli, before the crisis, we were living with our neighbors with no problem.”</p> <p> For now, the Kurdish military wing called the People's Protection Units (YPG), which is the predominant fighting force in the Rojova area in Syria's north east, works alongside the Christian and Assyrian communities and protects them. Their common enemy, the <em>Jihadist</em> rebel groups of Jabhat Al-Nusra and others, create a reason for their marriage of convenience. But the Christian community is not wholly convinced its interests will be protected by the Kurds who seek autonomy and their own state. “We are worried about <em>President</em> Barzani, that he won't respect our rights,” Kalill says about the President of Kurdish Iraq who is seeking a united Kurdistan: “I expect in the Rojova area it will be a sectarian war in the countryside.”</p> <p> Father Abuna Ishok Ergun, explains that there were around 130 Assyrian Orthodox living in Midyat before the crisis. Over the last twenty months another 300 individuals have arrived and are cared for in 13 villages in the area. Twenty more had arrived just two days before. The war has been hard on them, according to Father Ergun. “They have different problems like insomnia and depression.”</p> <p> The response of the church is thorough. Father Ergun says they discussed the likely influx of refugees back in 2012 with the local Archbishop and made a home for the Assyrian Orthodox in a local monastery when they began coming in numbers later that year.</p> <p> A Turkish refugee camp was built in the region and was to have a sector for the Christian community. After much controversy about whether it was the correct response for the refugees in question, just three Christian families moved into the camp, with the rest choosing to stay within the Midyat community and in the surrounding villages. Many of the families move onto Europe or elsewhere, using the region as staging post.</p> <p> The act of leaving Syria is, in many cases, sudden and unplanned, Father Ergun told The Media Line. “The <em>Jihadists</em> enter their homes and say you can't take the money or your phone, and if they argue they kill them. They leave so they will not be killed, so they won't kidnap their children and destroy their shops and houses.”</p> <p> Part of the problem, according to Father Ergun, is that, “The Christians in Syria don't have an organization that is defending them.”  This is a sentiment echoed by all the refugees in Midyat. Their sense of being in it alone is palpable; they feel Syria has now become sectarian with other groups supported by external governments and organizations. Even the Kurds have a strong political and military presence both in Syria and in Turkey.</p> <p> Once they flee Syria to predominantly Sunni Muslim Turkey, the situation again leaves them with little support outside of the church. Yet, despite the difficulties they face in Turkey, Sahaleb Mouza says they would rather be here than elsewhere. “It's better than Lebanon or Jordan. It's bad for Assyrians in Lebanon.”</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/live_from_the_arab_spring/126351/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Syria’s Assyrian Christians find refuge with Turkish neighbors</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div> </div> </div>  </article> <article class="post-126348 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-is_featured_20110628 category-israel category-lead_story category-mobile_20111212 category-mobile_homepage category-news tag-auschwitz tag-germany tag-isaac-herzog tag-jewish tag-knesset tag-nazi tag-poland ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-126348" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/126348/" rel="bookmark">Israeli lawmakers, Holocaust survivors tour Auschwitz</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/126348/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/is_featured_20110628/" rel="category tag">Is Featured?</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/israel/" rel="category tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/lead_story/" rel="category tag">Lead Story</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/mobile_20111212/" rel="category tag">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/mobile_homepage/" rel="category tag">Mobile-Homepage</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> More than 50 members of the Israeli parliament toured the prisoner blocks at Auschwitz on Monday to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.</p> <p> The delegation was the biggest ever from the Knesset, the 120-seat Israeli parliament, to come to the camp in southern Poland where the Nazis killed some 1.5 million people between 1940 and 1945, most of them Jews.</p> <p> The Knesset members were joined by Holocaust survivors, Israeli government ministers, Polish officials and representatives from dozens of other countries to mark the date, which is also International Holocaust Remembrance Day.</p> <p> “Today, 69 years after we left this hell called Auschwitz, we are here again as proud people, as proud citizens of the new Jewish state that rose out of the ruins of European Jewry,” Israeli Auschwitz survivor Noah Klieger, 87, told a memorial ceremony.</p> <p> Labour Party leader Isaac Herzog, head of the Israeli delegation, said Jews must work to create for future generations “a different world, a hopeful future, a world without fear where a Jew will be safe in any and every place.</p> <p> “If we lose the hope to build a new world, then we give in to Auschwitz,” he said.</p> <p> Earlier, the Israeli delegates walked beneath a metal sign with the German words “Arbeit Macht Frei,” or “Work Makes You Free” — the same sight that greeted inmates arriving at the camp. All but a few survivors died in the gas chambers, in medical experiments, or from disease and malnutrition.</p> <p> Monday's tour of the site included a stop at the prisoner blocks where piles of human hair and children's clothes have been preserved as evidence of the mass killings.</p> <p> The Israeli visitors later marched to the nearby site of the Birkenau concentration camp for the memorial ceremony. They were scheduled afterwards to recite prayers and light candles for the victims.</p> <p> Later on Monday, the Knesset delegation was due to visit the city of Krakow, where they will join Polish parliamentarians in a joint session dedicated to remembering the Holocaust.</p> <p> <em>Additional reporting by Jeffrey Heller and Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem; Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Tom Heneghan</em></p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/126348/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Israeli lawmakers, Holocaust survivors tour Auschwitz</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div> </div> </div>  </article> </div> </main> <div class='ast-pagination'> <nav class="navigation pagination" aria-label="Post pagination"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Post pagination</span> <div class="nav-links"><a class="prev page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2014/01/27/"><span class="ast-left-arrow">←</span> Previous</a> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2014/01/27/">1</a> <span aria-current="page" class="page-numbers current">2</span> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2014/01/27/page/3/">3</a> <a class="next page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2014/01/27/page/3/">Next <span class="ast-right-arrow">→</span></a></div> </nav></div> </div> </div>  </div> <footer data-elementor-type="footer" data-elementor-id="354962" class="elementor elementor-354962 elementor-location-footer" data-elementor-post-type="elementor_library"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-16ff2513 elementor-section-full_width printhide elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="16ff2513" data-element_type="section" data-e-type="section" data-settings="{"background_background":"classic"}"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-306cf8ff" data-id="306cf8ff" data-element_type="column" data-e-type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-73c841ca elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="73c841ca" data-element_type="section" data-e-type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-41944ee6" data-id="41944ee6" data-element_type="column" data-e-type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-58f0ac64 rm20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-site-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="58f0ac64" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-site-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h2 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com">Jewish Journal</a></h2> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-29de7e30 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-id="29de7e30" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> Connect. 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