This is in Terezin, a Czech town where the Nazis ran a fortress and ghetto for Jews (Thereisenstadt).
I had become friendly with two lovely people called Julie and Gidon, who was a survivor…
His name is Gidon Lev. Here we are at the fortress, which is a prison complete with torture chamber.
This is him explaining the Nazi sign at the entrance “Abreit macht frei” (work will set you free)…
This is the size of the small cells where Jews were kept. About 60 people were held in a tiny cell and slept standing up.
They had no heating and temperatures reached about -15. The window was sealed shut so no air.
They weren’t really fed and had to walk 6km everyday to work.
For Jews it was a death sentence. By contrast, non-Jewish prisoners had much better conditions, with some heating, food, table, beds etc
This demonstrates why denying the Jewish specificity of the Holocaust is so wrong…
Meanwhile the Nazi guards enjoyed a lifestyle where they had a cinema and swimming pool etc…
Onto the Ghetto, where there was about 1.65 metres of space per person…
Artists continued making their art to leave a trace on the world, like a handprint in a cave.
Some of it is dreamlike, and some of it is nightmarish, reflecting their reality…
Meanwhile the crematorium had on average 150-180 bodies everyday and worked around the clock…
Terezin is also known for the Nazi propaganda film the Nazis made to try and convince the world that life was great in the camps.
It took about 8 months to setup, including fake shops and so on.
The people forced to create the film were killed afterwards in death camps…
While I was there a remembrance ceremony was held and a march of the living. The Rabbi did a beautiful job.
It was my honour to be part of the British delegation laying a wreath…
Gidon spoke and it was touching.
About 15,000 children perished in the ghetto and only a handful survived. Gidon is one and he is full of joy and life. But returning cannot be easy…
He was carrying his mother’s yellow star with him. I held it in the palm of my hand for what seemed like minutes. It felt like I was holding a piece of his soul
The one pictured here belonged to the aunt of another delegate, who was also held in the same ghetto….
Freezing cold, we returned to the warm bus. I doubt I would have lasted long in that place with the conditions Gidon has lived under.
A letter with made-up figures is being spread by clout chasers, Hamas fans and the susceptible. It was published by @TheLancet who have form on this disinformation.
Even an author of the letter admits it’s nonsense. Fantasising about Palestinians being killed is very disturbing.
The doctor with terrorist links given a university position and that lunatic from the UN are using it, even though the author himself is replying that her claim is wrong.
The authors and the Lancet are now fuelling the most powerful global misinformation network ever known
Martin has created a snowball he is unable to stop.
All it takes is sending a fantasy about Jews to a medical journal, and off it goes. A well oiled industry of hate springs into action
When his past was discovered he acted the victim, calling it “a smear”. 🤔
The Soviet-Arab strategy failed to expel Israel from the UN and replace it with Palestine. So the “Zionism is racism” resolution was sponsored by them in response, as part of an ongoing campaign...
Whereas Nazis demonised Zionism as socialist, the Soviet antisemitic campaigns in the 1960’s demonised Zionism as the opposite.
They created “Zionism-equals-racism” to build relations with Arab nations, after it became clear Israel wouldn’t become a Soviet outpost…p
On June 11 a report in The Times asked: ‘Israel says Hamas weaponised rape. Does the evidence add up?’
People said they were misquoted. Their complaint & letters from the public weren’t printed...
So on their behalf and for the victims of sexual assault at the hands of Hamas, here are 10 points that refute the report in The Times:
1) 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌: ‘The political establishment has opened a fresh battle with the UN over what the Patten report didn’t say: that sexual violence was beyond reasonable doubt, systematic, widespread and ordered and perpetrated by Hamas.’
𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐓𝐇: The Patten report was narrow in scope and the investigation only lasted two weeks but the Israeli political establishment, which has good reason to not trust any UN body, was in general pleased with the report for saying there had been systematic and widespread sexual violence. Point 12 of the report’s executive summary says: ‘Based on the information gathered by the mission team from multiple and independent sources, there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred during the 7 October attacks in multiple locations across Gaza periphery including rape and gang rape in at least three locations.’
2) 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌: ‘The idea of the Arab male as an explicit sexual threat to Jewish women developed in tandem with the movement of Israeli politics to the right.’
𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐓𝐇: While there was a far right move to see rape as ‘sexual terrorism’ if perpetrated by an Arab man against a Jewish woman that does not mean that people were looking for rape on October 7. Rape has not, in general, played a part in the Arab-Israeli war since 1948 and it was partly because first responders were not expecting to find rape that more care was not taken to examine whether bodies had been subject to sexual assault and rape when their bodies were collected.
🧵1/5 This graphic has been doing the rounds. It illustrates the irrational anti-Zionist worldview, which sees Israel as representing all evil in the world.
The group producing this material were exposed by @LabourAgainstAS last year….
2/5 You might recall Brixton Palestine Solidarity Campaign posted a flyer that cause an outcry. It was produced by the same group
The flyer called on British people to campaign for their “Zionist” colleagues to be fired…
3/5 Key48, the group responsible have previously praised terrorists and posted lurid claims about Israel’s alleged involvement in a “global paedophile network”.
They were founded by the Palestine Society at the University of Westminster…. @JewishChronthejc.com/news/inside-th…