Categorie: XENOFOBIE EN RACISME

Speech by Haneen Zoabi, at the occasion the the Crystal Night commemoration of the Platform Stop Racism and Exclusion in Amsterdam, 8 Novemher 2015. (Ms Zoabi is a member of the Israeli parliament for the Joint List of Arabic parties, She belongs to the party Tajammu al-Watani al-Dimoqrati, the National Democratic Alliance). I wish to thank you for inviting me to this special ceremony, in this special location. I’m honored to speak in the memory of the victims of crystal night, and in the name of all victims of racism and prejudice and persecution. I’m honored to speak in the name of the Jewish resistance and in the name of all those who resist oppression, during their life time.During crystal night, thousands of businesses and hundreds of synagogues were ruined and burned downby German brown shirts. Perhaps the majority of Germans did not approve, but they kept quiet. When in Israel two churches and tens of mosques are burned, and hundreds of Israeli supporters of Beitar, shout “death to the Arabs” after each football match, when a family is burned to death, when a 15 years old boy is burned to death, the majority keeps (Lees verder bij de bron van dit artikel)