It's 2025 and this is where we are...

#Israel forces the cancellation of a speech by Prof. Omri Boehm at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of #Buchenwald, because they say that "Boehm 'dilutes the memory of the Holocaust with his discourse on universal human values.''

Boehm is the grandson of a #Holocaust survivor and speaks of the relationship of the Nakba to the Holocaust.

#Germany
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-04-04/ty-article/.premium/israeli-german-philosophers-part-in-buchenwald-ceremony-cancelled-under-israeli-pressure/00000196-00f1-d101-a7bf-81fbee660000

Intervention #Israel​s verhindert Rede

»Prof. Dr. #OmriBoehm ist ein international anerkannter deutsch-israelischer Philosoph & Enkel einer #Holocaust -Überlebenden.

[Leider] bahnte sich wegen seiner Einladung ein Konflikt mit Vertretern der israelischen Regierung an […] Schlimmer noch: Die vielfach seelisch verletzten Überlebenden drohten instrumentalisiert & in diesen Konflikt hineingezogen zu werden.«

Interview:
https://www.radiodrei.de/programm/schema/sendungen/radio3_am_nachmittag/archiv/20250403_1600/radio3_aktuell_1610.html

Stellungnahme #Buchenwald:
https://www.buchenwald.de/newsroom/Statement-

#brd #israel #palästina : #geschichtspolitik / #gedenken / #holocaust / #diplomatie / #einflussnahme / #protest

„Auf Druck Israels: Philosoph Omri Boehm bei Buchenwald-Gedenkveranstaltung unerwünscht.“

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/497374.staatsr%C3%A4son-kritiker-ausgeladen.html

Siehe auch:

„Gedenkstätten-Leiter Wagner ist empört über israelische Regierung“
https://www.evangelisch.de/inhalte/241413/04-04-2025/gedenkstaetten-leiter-wagner-ist-empoert-ueber-israelische-regierung

Today In Labor History April 3, 1950: Composer Kurt Weill died. Weill’s most famous song was Mack the Knife ("Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"), which became a schlock classic after Bobby Darin’s rendition. However, Weill wrote the song as part of Bertolt Brecht’s “Three Penny Opera,” which was a socialist critique of the capitalist world. Weill was persecuted by the Nazis for his political views and his Jewish heritage. He fled to America, with his wife, singer Lotte Lenya. Some of Weill’s other well-known songs include: Alabama Song (covered by the Doors), Pirate Jenny (covered by Nina Simone), Mack the Knife (also covered by Louis Armstrong), Der Kleine des Lieben Gottes (covered by John Zorn).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orDcL0zt34

Mar 27, 1914: Budd Schulberg was born on this date. During WW2 Schulberg was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services working with John Ford’s documentary unit.

Schulberg was among the 1st Americans to witness the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps and he pursued evidence for the war crimes trials.

He was also on the team that arrested Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.

#WW2 #OSS #Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Schulberg#World_War_II

#brd #israel #palästina : #krieg / #gaza / #neofaschismus / #antisemitismus / #islamophobie / #holocaust / #genozid

„Der israelische Holocaust-Forscher Amos Goldberg über Israels Beziehungen zu Ultrarechten aus aller Welt und warum er Genozid-Vorwürfe für stichhaltig hält, auch wenn Gaza nicht Auschwitz ist.“

https://www.fr.de/kultur/gesellschaft/israelischer-holocaust-forscher-amos-goldberg-ueber-israels-beziehung-zu-ultrarechten-das-ist-kein-flirt-das-ist-eine-liebesaffaere-93647338.html

Today in Labor History March 22, 1943: The Nazi-affiliated Schutzmannschaft Battalion burnt alive everyone from the village of Khatyn, Belarus, near Minsk. They did it in retaliation for an attack on German troops by Soviet partisans. Himmler created Schutzmannschaft police units in 1941. By 1942, they had over 300,000 members. They slaughtered Jews throughout the Baltics, Ukraine and Belarus. They also served as guards at forced labor camps. In total, Nazis and Nazi collaborators slaughtered over 2 million people just in Belarus during the three years of Nazi occupation. This was nearly 25% of the entire population. Of these, 800,000 were Jews, or about 90% of the Jewish population.

“Perhaps in the entire history of civilization, the Holocaust was the most important object lesson in man’s inhumanity to man.”

Kitty Dukakis, at the National Governors Association in 1983.

#Starmer targeting Jewish people in war on #FreeSpeech, #protest rights about #Palestine, #Israel

Protesters cheered & embraced 87yo #Jewish #Holocaust #survivor Stephen #Kapos arriving at #police station

Police summoned him for questioning over a #peaceful #anti-genocide march

Police falsely claim forced its way through police lines. But video evidence shows he was invited through

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/22/video-holocaust-survivor-stephen-kapos-cheered-as-arrives-for-police-interview-over-anti-genocide-protest/

"One of many #Holocaust remembrance articles taken down as part of the Hegseth’s effort to rid Pentagon platforms of anything related to DEI. . . . Also removed was an article on Bea Arthur, the Jewish “Golden Girls” star who served in the Marines during World War II."

May the ghost of #BettyWhite haunt you fascists every day & night.
These are the people, I mean #Nazis, who say they want to protect Jews from #antisemitism? Give me an effin' break.

https://www.jta.org/2025/03/20/politics/holocaust-remembrance-pages-removed-in-pentagons-dei-purge

"One of many #Holocaust remembrance articles taken down as part of the Hegseth’s effort to rid Pentagon platforms of anything related to DEI. . . . Also removed was an article on Bea Arthur, the Jewish “Golden Girls” star who served in the Marines during World War II."

May the ghost of #BettyWhite haunt you fascists every day & night.
These are the people, I mean #Nazis, who say they want to protect Jews from #antisemitism? Give me an effin' break.

https://www.jta.org/2025/03/20/politics/holocaust-remembrance-pages-removed-in-pentagons-dei-purge

A #Holocaust denier who was arrested in #Scotland has been jailed after being extradited to #France
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd65exzqyn3o

Today in Labor History March 19, 1933: Nazis arrested Jewish antifascist photographer Gerda Taro and interrogated her about a supposed communist plot to overthrow Hitler. She had previously been arrested for distributing anti-fascist literature. The Nazis eventually let her go and she fled to France, and then Yugoslavia. She died at the age of 26, photo-documenting the Spanish Republican war against Franco and the fascists. Some said that she was responsible, along with Robert Capa, of inventing the genre of war photography. Capa was actually the nom de guerre of Taro’s lover, Endre Friedmann, a Hungarian Jew who taught her the art of photography and who later went on to found Magnum Photos, along with French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. “Capa” was Friedmann’s street name, back in Hungary. It meant “shark.”