Re: "The Holocaust 80 years later — teaching its history”
"This conflation also erases the historical and political context that drives Palestinian protests, namely, Israel's ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories, its apartheid policies, and the catastrophic death toll of the war on Gaza, where over 50,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, have been killed."
Read moreRe: “Woman hidden from Nazis appeals for Palestinian children on Holocaust Remembrance Day”
"While history is important to learn so that we don’t repeat it, one cannot help but think that we haven’t learned from it, especially since the Genocide Convention, the basis for South Africa’s case at the ICJ, was conceived in response to the Holocaust."
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