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Thanks God For Holocaust Memorial Day

Can we transform the Holocaust into a universal message against racism, oppression and discrimination?

(LONDON) - So the Goyim can learn first hand about the vile impact of Jewish Power.

So the Goyim grasp once and for all that their democratically elected politicians better keep their thoughts to themselves.

80,000 to President Obama-Hold Israel Accountable

US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and Jewish Voice

(WASHINGTON DC) - The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and Jewish Voice for Peace announced that they are running a full-page ad in today's special presidential inauguration edition of the influential Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call.

This is distributed to nearly 20,000 Capitol Hill staffers and elected officials.

LIVE RADIO INTERVIEW: Frank Romano, Love & Terror in the Middle East, 4 pm Mon

Monday, Jan. 28, 4 pm, EST, 1250 AM, WHNZ, Go to WWW.WHNZ.COM and click on LISTEN LIVE

(NEW YORK) - “LOVE AND TERROR in the MIDDLE EAST” dramatically captures the author’s efforts to promote understanding and cooperation in the region between Jews, Muslims and Christians.

It details Romano’s arduous journeys between Israel and the West Bank, discussing issues and organizing activities among religious and national groups.

ACJ at 70, Keeping Prophetic Jewish Tradition Alive

Prior to the mid-20th century, the majority of all Jews rejected Zionism, or Jewish nationalism.

(WASHINGTON DC) - For more than seventy years, the American Council for Judaism has advanced the philosophy of Judaism as a religion of universal values, not a nationality.

It maintains that Americans of Jewish faith are American by nationality and Jews by religion.

UK Liberal Democrats in a Funk Over Free Speech (again)

Is there ever an ‘acceptable’ moment for mentioning Israel's atrocious conduct?

(LONDON) - A Liberal Democrat MP in the UK, David Ward, is in hot water for his "use of language" in condemning Israelis for atrocities against the Palestinians while the horrors of their own suffering at the hands of the Nazis were still fresh in their memory.

He wrote on his website a few days before Holocaust Memorial Day: "Having visited Auschwitz twice - once with my family and once with local schools - I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians..."

You Must Not Tell the Truth! And Chutzpah Defined

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation
- Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel

(LONDON) - Some of us do not believe what our politicians say especially when the subject is Israel’s behaviour - its ongoing colonization of the occupied West Bank for the purpose of making peace impossible except, perhaps, on terms which require the Palestinians to surrender to Zionism’s will.

The responses of some Jewish supporters of Israel right or wrong to one British MP who did dare to tell the truth illustrate why most politicians throughout the Western world won’t.

Lib Dem MP David Ward Told the Truth

Time is ripe for our liberation..
Time is ripe for us to say what we see, think and feel.

(LONDON) - Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, Liberal Democrats David Ward, MP for Bradford East made a comparison on his website.

He equated the Shoa with the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Buried Two Young

The simmering anger will only grow as Israeli society seems oblivious to the suffering of Palestinians.

(BETHLEHEM) - In Bethlehem there were two young people buried Wednesday, both executed by occupation forces in the prime of life and both not discussed in mainstream western media.

We buried a 15 year old child, Saleh Ahmed Alamarin. The funeral march moved from Al-Azza refugee camp to Aida Refugee camp cemetery.

Ex-pats Launch Israeli Opposition Network, Call for Regime Change in Israel

“We believe the entire regime in Israel has to change” - Yael Berda

(NEW YORK) - For Yael Berda, the unexpectedly strong showing of Yair Lapid and his Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party in Israel’s recent national elections is no reason for centrists or liberals to celebrate.

Lapid’s party labels itself centrist, she says, but its domestic and security policies are so similar to the right wing parties’ that it will only serve to bolster their agenda.

Are Liberal American Zionists `Delusional`?

The Israeli government remains committed to the status quo of apartheid.

(CHICAGO) - Shortly after the polls closed in Israel’s Knesset election Tuesday, two American Liberal Zionist groups, J Street and Americans for Peace Now (APN), were out with triumphant emails to their peace-oriented members:

Israel voters have chosen a new government that will “revive the peace process with the Palestinians and make vital moves to “save” Israel”.