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| April 6, 2013
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Palestinians admit, No comparison between an ‘occupation’ & the Holocaust


Anti-Israel propagandists seek comparison of ‘apartheid’ or the so-called ‘Israeli occupation’ with the Holocaust to draw moral equivalency, but Palestinians brave enough to visit Yad Vashem now admit there is no comparison.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Palestinian Arabs visiting Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum as part of a program called “Combatants for Peace” said it was a gross error to compare the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict with what the Nazis did to the Jews.

Palestinians: No comparison between Holocaust an 'occupation'

Placing a wreath at Yad Veshem in Memory of the 6 Million Jews killed during the Holocaust – Israel Today

 

Many Palestinian propagandists and their apologists abroad like to claim that Israel’s so-called “occupation” of Judea and Samaria is a new holocaust, and that the Jews, of all people, should refrain from such behavior. Continue Reading »

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| April 4, 2013
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Palestinian Arab at Yad Vashem: ‘A tragedy beyond words’

Bassam Aramin, whose 10 yr-old daughter was killed by an IDF rubber bullet, visiting Yad Vashem, said ‘I surely can identify with feeling like a refugee, humiliated, weak, lost… but the tragedy of the Holocaust is very different’.

Noam (Dabul) Dvir

Ahmed al-Jaafari, a 43-year-old Deheishe refugee camp resident, stands opposite the list of Jews who were sent to the Sobibor death camp. At a certain point, he turns to the guide, Roee Hanani, and asks “why did they keep such an organized list if they planned on killing them all along?”

Hanani replied him in Arabic “the Nazis were very organized. Continue Reading »

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| March 22, 2013
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President Obama: Israel’s existence prevents a second Holocaust

“The State of Israel does not exist because of the Holocaust.  But with the survival of a strong Jewish State of Israel, such a Holocaust will never happen again.” – Barack Obama

By JTA

 

JERUSALEM – Israel does not owe its existence to the Holocaust but its existence prevents another one from happening, U.S. President Obama said on the third and final day of his first presidential visit to Israel.

U.S. President Barack Obama takes a moment for reflection while visiting Yad Vashem. – Photo: Emil Salman

“Here we hope,” Obama said on Friday at Yad Vashem’s Hall of the Children after touring the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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| February 13, 2013
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Pat Boone sells Galilee land to American Evangelicals

At a ceremony at Yad Vashem, the 1950’s American singer/songwriter presented the original lyrics to “This Land Is Mine” made famous by ‘Exodus’ film. (Clip included)

 

American singer, actor and evangelical Christian Pat Boone is in Israel to present Yad Vashem with the Christmas card on which he scribbled the lyrics to “This Land Is Mine” – the popular song that he wrote to accompany a tune from the movie Exodus.
PAT BOONE holds up the framed Christmas card on which he wrote the lyrics to his song.

PAT BOONE holds up the framed Christmas card on which he wrote the lyrics to his song. – Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The J’lem Post

One of the biggest chart-toppers of the late 1950s, Boone – who recently announced a new venture to sell small plots of land in the Galilee to Christian Zionists in the United States – is here as part of a delegation led by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.

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| June 26, 2012
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3 haredim suspected of vandalizing Yad Vashem

Police arrest three residents of Jerusalem, Bnei Brak in connection to defacement of Holocaust Museum

Itamar Fleishman

 

 

The police have arrested three suspects in the vandalism of Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum earlier in June.

Some of the graffiti Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg

Some of the graffiti - Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg

The three, 18, 26 and 27, are ultra-Orthodox residents of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak.

The Jerusalem district Police said Tuesday that the suspects have also been linked to other vandalism cases of monuments in the greater Jerusalem area.

According to police sources, a search of the suspects’ apartments yielded anti-Israel and anti-Zionists material, spray cans and PLO flags. Continue Reading »

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| June 11, 2012
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Hate Vandals Deface Yad VaShem Holocaust Museum

Yad VaShem Holocaust Museum officials were shocked Monday morning to discover anti-Zionist hate slogans and graffiti praising Hitler.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

“Hitler, thanks for the Holocaust” and “If Hitler didn’t exist the Zionists would have had to invent him” were among the graffiti scrawled on the walls of the plaza. Another hate message stated, “Jews wake up – the Zionist regime is dangerous,” and the vandalism was signed by “The global Zionist mafia.”

Yad VaShem director Avner Shalev said, “I am shocked and horrified by this blatant act of burning hatred against the country and against Zionism. It has crossed the red line and is very worrisome.” Continue Reading »

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