"The first victory we can claim is that our hearts are free of hatred. Hence we say to those who persecute us and who try to dominate us: ‘You are my brother. I do not hate you, but you are not going to dominate me by fear. I do not wish to impose my truth, nor do I wish you to impose yours on me. We are going to seek the truth together’. THIS IS THE LIBERATION WHICH WE ARE PROCLAIMING."
Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas (2002)
“I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself
that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible.”
- Raoul Wallenberg, Letter and Dispatches 1924 - 1944
"From
mid-May to the beginning of July 1944, some 440,000 Hungarian Jews were
deported to Auschwitz – the fastest, cruelest, and most efficient
killing field in the Holocaust. Wallenberg arrived as a member of the
Swedish Legation in Budapest in mid-July 1944. In a remarkable
demonstration of ingenuity and inspiration, bluff and bravado, he
rescued some 100,000 Jews in the last six months of 1944 and the
beginning of 1945, more than any other single government or
organization."
Nonviolent resistance to the radical evil of the Nazis by courageous Danes and German housewives also worked and saved thousands of Jewish people from the Holocaust.
It should come as no surprise that Wallenberg was abducted by Soviet Communist forces. The Nazis and the Soviets had been partners in the partition and conquest of Poland six years prior, in September 1939.
Let us honor Raoul Wallenberg for all the lives he saved, and let us also continue to demand justice for this good man, who had his life taken by Josef Stalin.
"Out of the Depths: The Anguish of Liberation and Rebirth: Marking 80 Years since the Defeat of Nazi Germany" - Yad Vashem
Never Forget
We
must never forget what happened and remain vigilant now and in the
future to battle against the mass destruction of innocent human beings. Polls in 2020 showed that new generations are ignorant of the
Holocaust are deeply troubling. Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, remembers the six million Jewish people
murdered in the Nazi Holocaust, and continuing forms of antisemitism in
the world today.
Vladimir
Putin would like the world to forget the Soviet Union's historic
collaboration with Nazis in starting WW2, and Moscow's demonizing of the
Jewish people through to the present day, but we owe it to the victims
to remember the full history. Juliana Geran Pilon in her March 11, 2022
OpEd "Putin’s ‘De-Nazification’ Claim Began With Marx and Stalin:
Anti-Semitic myths have long been a staple of communist ideology and
Soviet disinformation" summarized and sourced this history in this
excerpt.
Still, as the historian
Robert S. Wistrich
wrote, “it was only after 1967 that antisemitism and anti-Zionism
would assume a truly systematic and organized character. . . . In place
of the relentless Nazi myth about ‘Jewish Bolshevism,’ the Soviet
Communists began to fabricate the equally mendacious thesis of ‘Jewish
Nazism.’ ”
The idea of a Zionist-imperialist-fascist-American conspiracy
culminated in the infamous “Zionism is racism” resolution, passed in
1975 by a majority of United Nations member states. By the time the
resolution was repealed in 1991, it had done significant damage.
Osama bin Laden
believed the fantasies of the “Protocols,” Mr. Wistrich wrote in
his book “A Lethal Obsession.” The jihadist’s conviction that the world
is run by a capitalist, Jewish cabal explains why the 9/11 suicide
hijackers expected the World Trade Center to be full of Jews.
Placed in its historical context, this myth of antifascism, anti-Nazism and anti-Zionism is far more than rhetoric.
As Santayana observed, those who forget
history are doomed to repeat it. This is why we must remember and say never
again.
“Monsters
exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More
dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to
act without asking questions.”
~ Primo Levi (z’l), Auschwitz survivor.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas, an Iranian proxy, invaded and attacked Israel killing 1,200 and taking 240 hostages.
This strike ignited a Middle East war between Israel and the terrorist
organization Hamas, which has its base of operations in Gaza.
This was the largest mass killing of Jewish people since the Holocaust.
Equally shocking was how this mass slaughter of Jewish people ignited anti-Semites around the World.
El Necio libels Israel calling it a "Zionist colonization" without recognizing the fact tha the Jewish people are indigenous to this their ancestral lands.
He claims that Guevara is the inspiration for the "resistance" i.e.
terrorist barbarism taking place today, and concludes his rant with "Che
Lives."
Regime agents translated their virtual slander into real world action the next day.
On October 8, 2023, one day after the terror attacks in Israel, militant
leftists held a protest in Times Square to celebrate the terrorist
attack as a form of resistance, yelling anti-Semitic slogans
and waving banners and posters. On October 11, 2023, The People’s Forum
(TPF) released a statement justifying their October 8th demonstration
in Times Square and reaffirming their support for the rampage. Manolo De
Los Santos, the group’s co-executive director, is a researcher at the
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, with links to the Cuban dictatorship, and he was “based out of Cuba for many years.”
On January 24, 2024, Manolo De Los Santos said the quiet part out loud at The People’s Forum in New York City: “When
we finally deal that ultimate blow to annihilate Israel. When the state
of Israel is completely abolished and obliterated from history, it will
be the single most powerful blow we can deliver against capitalism.“
I have attended meetings in the United
States were those who identify as progressive would begin the meeting
with a land acknowledgement. The Smithsonian Museum's National Museum of
the American Indian on their website Native Knowledge 360° provides the following description of the practice.
Land acknowledgment is a traditional custom that dates back
centuries in many Native nations and communities. Today, land
acknowledgments are used by Native Peoples and non-Natives to recognize
Indigenous Peoples who are the original stewards of the lands on which
we now live. Before public events and other important gatherings hosted
by the National Museum of the American Indian, a speaker offers this
acknowledgment displayed in the quote container on behalf of everyone
present.
After millennia of Native history, and centuries of
displacement and dispossession, acknowledging original Indigenous
inhabitants is complex. Many places in the Americas have been home to
different Native Nations over time, and many Indigenous people no longer
live on lands to which they have ancestral ties.
The Jewish people are indigenous
to the land they live on today, and lands inhabited by Palestinians,
such as Gaza and the West Bank. Three thousand years ago the state of
Israel was dominated by a Jewish community, until they were taken over
by the Roman Empire in 63 BC and turned into a protectorate to rule over
them, until the Romans crushed them, and drove many of them out of
their homeland for violently resisting imperial rule beginning in 66 AD,
the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple
in 70 AD and Jewish resisters to occupation were scattered across the
Roman Empire in modern day Iraq, Spain, Saudi Arabia, and parts of
Eastern Europe.
Nevertheless throughout all this time there has been a continuous presence in what is today Israel. We should also remember that today, and demonstrate our solidarity with this people who have suffered so much for so long.
“I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself
that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible.”
- Raoul Wallenberg, Letter and Dispatches 1924 - 1944
"From
mid-May to the beginning of July 1944, some 440,000 Hungarian Jews were
deported to Auschwitz – the fastest, cruelest, and most efficient
killing field in the Holocaust. Wallenberg arrived as a member of the
Swedish Legation in Budapest in mid-July 1944. In a remarkable
demonstration of ingenuity and inspiration, bluff and bravado, he
rescued some 100,000 Jews in the last six months of 1944 and the
beginning of 1945, more than any other single government or
organization."
Nonviolent resistance to the radical evil of the Nazis by courageous Danes and German housewives also worked and saved thousands of Jewish people from the Holocaust.
It should come as no surprise that Wallenberg was abducted by Soviet Communist forces. The Nazis and the Soviets had been partners in the partition and conquest of Poland six years prior, in September 1939.
Today, on #RaoulWallenberg Commemorative Day, we honour the enduring legacy of Swedish diplomat and hero of the Holocaust Raoul Wallenberg, a hero who refused to be a bystander. We also mark 80 years since his disappearance into the Soviet Gulag- a profound and ongoing injustice.… pic.twitter.com/54p7TdQRFb
— Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (@TheRWCHR) January 17, 2025
Let us honor Raoul Wallenberg for all the lives he saved, and let us also continue to demand justice for him, who had his life taken by Josef Stalin. The Russians refuse to reveal what they did to Wallenberg, and his family has filed a lawsuit against them. In 2016, Sweden declared him dead.
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg.
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg displayed outstanding civil courage and bravery when he saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.
“I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself
that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible.”
- Raoul Wallenberg, Letter and Dispatches 1924 - 1944
Raoul Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 - disappeared January 17, 1945)
Today is Raoul Wallenberg Day in Canada in honor of his couragous example. Irwin Cotler, a Canadian member of parliament, in an OpEd last year in Haaretz, described the last and most dramatic rescue carried out by Wallenberg:
"As the
Nazis advanced on Budapest and threatened to blow up the city’s ghetto
and liquidate the remaining Jews, [Wallenberg] put the Nazi generals on notice
that they would be held accountable and brought to justice, if not
executed, for their war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Nazi
generals desisted. Some 70,000 more Jews were saved, thanks to the
indomitable courage of one person prepared to confront radical evil."
Nonviolent resistance to the radical evil of the Nazis by courageous Danes and German housewives also worked and saved thousands of Jewish people from the Holocaust.
— Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (@TheRWCHR) January 16, 2023
Let us honor Raoul Wallenberg for all the lives he saved, and let us also continue to demand justice for him, who had his life taken by Josef Stalin. The Russians refuse to reveal what they did to Wallenberg, and his family has filed a lawsuit against them. In 2016, Sweden declared him dead.
Each year, on 17 January, we honour the memory of Raoul Wallenberg. The Swedish diplomat saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.
Join us in lighting a candle today for Raoul, his humanitarian deeds and human solidarity! pic.twitter.com/sTyxeGHUu0
— Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (@SweMFA) January 17, 2023
“I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself
that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible.”
- Raoul Wallenberg, Letter and Dispatches 1924 - 1944
Raoul Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 - disappeared January 17, 1945)
Today is Raoul Wallenberg Day in Canada in honor of his couragous example. Irwin Cotler, a Canadian member of parliament, in an OpEd today in Haaretz, described the last and most dramatic rescue carried out by Wallenberg:
"As the
Nazis advanced on Budapest and threatened to blow up the city’s ghetto
and liquidate the remaining Jews, [Wallenberg] put the Nazi generals on notice
that they would be held accountable and brought to justice, if not
executed, for their war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Nazi
generals desisted. Some 70,000 more Jews were saved, thanks to the
indomitable courage of one person prepared to confront radical evil."
Nonviolent resistance to the radical evil of the Nazis by courageous Danes and German housewives also worked and saved thousands of Jewish people from the Holocaust.
Let us honor Raoul Wallenberg for all the lives he saved, and let us also continue to demand justice for him, who had his life taken by Josef Stalin. The Russians refuse to reveal what they did to him, and Wallenberg's family has sued the Russians. Sweden declared him dead in 2016.
When the Jews of Budapest were set to be deported in 1944, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg led an operation to save them. He paid a heavy price for his bravery: Wallenberg was detained, 75 years ago today, and was not seen from again. #WeRemember@UNESCO@AuschwitzMuseumpic.twitter.com/iS6VxCeKJ8
July 18, 2014 marked 20 years since the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentina's history. A siren sounded at the precise time the bomb exploded on July 18, 1994 at 9:53am (1253 GMT) and reduced the seven-story Jewish-Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA) community centre in Buenos Aires to rubble reported the BBC. 85 people were murdered
ranging in age from 5 years old to 67 years old and more than 300
hundred
wounded. 20 years later those responsible for this act of terrorism
remain at large. A movement to pay homage to the victims of this crime
continues to remember and demand justice two decades later that continues to elude the families of the victims.
State prosecutor Alberto Nisman, the lead investigator into the 1994 car bomb attack that killed 85 people at
a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, was found dead in his
apartment late on Sunday, hours before he was scheduled to present his
case to Congress.
A
22-caliber pistol was found at his side and Nisman appears to have
committed suicide, but many of the details of the case are unclear and
allegations of foul play have surged. He died just a few days after
accusing President Cristina Fernandez of trying to hamper his probe.
This case needs to be monitored closely as does the investigation into the worse single attack on Jews since World War 2 that has been linked to Iran.
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