"The transcendence of love is not hatred, but silence," Ronald Lauder, president of the planet legislature of Jews said during yesterday's celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, quoting the American judaic author of origin and Nobel Peace Prize winner Eli Wiesel.
Yet, all single individual who spoke in Auschwitz that day chose to stay silent.
We heard about the judaic children murdered by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023 (not a circumstantial number - 36). But not saying that Israel has since murdered at least 47,000 Palestinians and Palestinians, including any 18,000 children. It was about judaic students who were “terrorized at colleges”—and nothing about more than 3 1000 detained for propaganda activities on American campuses or that peaceful demonstrations slapping sticks and teardrop gas (as at the University of Colombia).
“There are protests against Jews worldwide,” Ronald Lauder said. In this narrative, “against the Jews” means everything that suggests that Arabs – or even Palestinian children – have the right to live, and among the anti-Semitic slogans is “free Palestine”.
We have learned that “Jewish lecturers are losing their jobs.” But not that almost all these judaic lecturers are losing their jobs in relation to criticism of Israel (as Prof. Maura Finkelstein of Muhlenberg College, released in January 2025 after the social media entry criticizing Zionism was made available).
When this was said, recalling more than a million executed in Auschwitz from 1940 to 1945, the overwhelming majority of which were Jews, the Israeli Defence Forces intensified military action in the West Bank, dared to support Donald Trump's environment for the annexation of the site. Within 10 days of the announcement of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers murdered 117 people, including 32 children (the agreement gained power on Sunday 19 January – until the end of which they watched for as small ammunition as possible to be wasted).
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"It is crucial to track how the Holocaust happened, how it was organized and how terrible human suffering took place in ghettos, camps and Auschwitz itself," said German ambassador Viktor Elbling. He did not say that as a consequence of the bombings – 30 percent sponsored by his country – which culminated in an business lasting for more than 7 decades, more than 1 million children in Gaza endure from starvation, sleeping in tents or in the open air, as the Israeli army leveled 75 percent of the land, including half of the schools and most hospitals.
“80 years ago, the planet saw the scale of evil that took place behind the gates of Auschwitz. On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember and pay tribute to all victims of this terrible crime and heroes who had the courage to defy evil. Let the memory of this tragedy be a informing to us and a commitment to building a planet based on respect and peace," he wrote on X known for its moral integrity Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish.
Meanwhile, the planet is constantly watching the scale of evil that takes place in Palestine. We followed Israeli crimes almost in real time, day by day for over a year. We saw a man crying holding birth certificates in his hands their daughters who died with their parent in the bombing erstwhile he left to registry them. We saw an older female whose Israeli soldiers gave her boy in a plastic bag after frozen food – although there is no certainty that the mixed fragments of the rotting body belonged to him.
People following profiles of journalists from Gaza – how
(200,000 followers on Instagram) – there are no strangers specified as a father holding a corpse
Who, as a consequence of an detonation in a neighbouring building, became heartless. Or the car from which the bodies sent back by Israel – or alternatively the pieces of bodies – come out, including the girl's pink tight leg, at most teenage.
“We don’t want our past to become the future of our children”, Ronald Lauder again. This definition of "our children" does not include Palestinian children, of which 96% lived a period ago in the belief that Death waits for them around the corner, 92% "did not accept reality" and almost half declared that they would want to die to prevent suffering – which seems understandable, given, for example, the fact that in the last fourteen months they had been carried out in Gaza about a 1000 kid amputations without anesthesia (Israel blocked humanitarian aid, including medical supplies).
Remember how we amazed the Russians not to protest? For the slightest expression of opposition to the war in Ukraine They're facing death in a penal colony.. present we shrug our arms erstwhile commemorating the victims of 1 genocide becomes an excuse to execute another apotheosis erstwhile our government folds red carpet before a man accused by the global Criminal Court of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and Deputy Minister of abroad Affairs says in an interview that “there is no specified thing as Palestine”, causing a consternation at the Embassy of the State of Palestine at 7/9 Idzikowskiego Street in Warsaw (Poland recognized the Palestinian Declaration of independency in 1988 and so far no somewhat crucial politician has proposed to repeal this decision).
Previously Minister Bartoszewski, asked for an entry in which the Ministry of abroad Affairs – referring to arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanjah – confirmed that Poland is obliged to respect the judgments of the ICC, wriggling like a student on a rug in a Catholic gymnasium, swearing that a message of fact did not mean a intention to carry out these obligations. An insult to Israel is an insult to the United States, and we would not want that. In May 2024 Bartoszewski arguedthat "Israel wages war in a very civilized way".
The other of love is not hatred and the planet does not hatred Palestinians. The planet looks at their deaths through millions of smaller and larger screens, indifferently silent.
Who truly opposes anti-Semitism?
However, this silence is increasingly interrupted, besides by any mainstream media. The war in Gaza, possibly thanks to these ongoing relations, is 1 of the fewer cases in which society effectively resists the message of political elites. The crimes in Gaza are actively and consistently opposed by 2 tiny forces in the Polish parliament – Left and Confederate – but the government's decision to warrant Netanyahu a safe stay in Poland has criticised even the majority of voters of the Civic Coalition, who would have preferred that all war criminal be treated by our country on the same terms and regardless of any organization interests and origin of the victims. It was not very convincing to ex-polak Roman Giertych that “it was for our safety”; people immediately reviewed the plan to appease Donald Trump and his flock of technoligarchs so that they would show mercy to you about the possible impact on the result of the Polish presidential election.
I have no illusions about the motivation behind any people, including the Confederacy policies, erstwhile they express solidarity with the Palestinians. From comments on the web, specified as “but Hitler was right” (written not only by swast on the neck, but by sympathetic-looking people with children in profile photos), after extinguishing of Khanu candles, anti-Semitism is on a rising wave.
But the real fight against him is not those who are silent about the crime, erstwhile their perpetrator is the Israeli state and its western associates, and surely not those who applaud these crimes. Jews and Jews who say: not on our behalf are the main resistance. These voices in the planet and in Israel alone are not missing – but they were not peculiarly needed: during the celebrations commemorating mass crimes committed by those who in judaic people saw what the Israeli authorities present – and to a large degree besides the Israeli society – see Palestinians.
But even innocent appeals – like this o equal standards in the application of global law, addressed to the Polish government, the Ministry of abroad Affairs and the Ministry of Justice, under which my signature is besides placed – they meet with accusations of anti-Semitism. "Basing the provisions of an organization, which should be the oracle of planet civilization, on the fabricated evidence, the propaganda of terrorists and anti-Semitic schemes is simply a measurement of the moral collapse of this alleged institution" – wrote the judaic Municipality in Warsaw in response. The message stresses that "the imposition of excessive ethical requirements only and only 1 side of the conflict—Israel—is, according to the internationally recognised definition of IHRA anti-Semitism", and someway "forgotten" that the same allegations by the global Criminal Court placed Mohammed Deif, 1 of the Hamas leaders, in connection with the events of October 7, 2023.
Tusk, you don't have to!
Tusk did not gotta respond to the attack of Andrzej Duda, who, along with the Law and Justice, had long since started a race for Trump's heart and he knows that this requires gaining the heart of the government in Israel. If Netanjah had indeed been going to the celebration in Oświęcim, we would have been in a truly politically and morally hard situation. The arrest of the Prime Minister of Israel would endanger with very harsh sanctions from the US. However, specified an initiative was never undertaken by the Israeli side, Netanyahu did not intend to appear in Poland – it is not amazing that the journey would require respective another countries to enter the air zone, which could want to execute an ICC order.
The Polish government could afford decency. Like Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Lithuania, Slovenia and Spain, which declared their willingness to detain Benjamin Netanyahu on their territory (and the United States have not declared war on them for this reason). We do not know whether these countries have yet taken this step if they have a real choice, but their motion is simply a moral minimum, which is truly not worth going down below. Even if it pays off.
All the more reason for the decency of those who spoke in Auschwitz on Monday. They did not do this – out of conviction, out of opportunism, out of specified cowardice – although the only thing that threatened them was to accuse them of anti-Semitism. It would be adequate to criticize Israeli politicians who are straight talking about the necessity to carry out an extermination in Gaza, specified as the national heritage minister Amichay Eliyahu, who suggested that a atomic bomb be dropped there, or vice chief Kneset Nissim Vaturi of the ruling Likud party, who wrote on X that the Israelis have 1 common intent and that it is “the erasure of the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.” It would already be risky for the Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich words about itthat "the starving of 2 million Palestinians could be justified, but the planet will not let it".
The last fourteen months showed that the story, which is part of the Auschwitz extermination camp, taught us much little than anyone could have imagined. The celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp are the most blatant example.
Israel has a immense global propaganda apparatus and powerful lobbyist organizations. He has an infinitely devoted and generous ally in the form of the United States and influences that with Donald Trump's next triumph only strengthened (you knew that Netanjah Named in his honor illegal settlements formed on occupied Palestinian lands?). He besides has the world's 4th largest army.
Gaza only has us. And the real test is just ahead. Palestinians live among the debris that could take up to 15 years, according to a UN study of more than six months ago. Nearly 70% of residents lost their homes, almost everyone lost 1 close person. The blockade spreads disease, hospitals are missing, let alone intellectual support. Peace is uncertain and depends on force from the US and the European Union.
May during the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we “remember” sound like a moral commitment, alternatively than an elaborate slogan that closes the mouth of the oppressed and their allies.
