The Global Hypocrisy about Israel’s “Occupation” of the West Bank
When was the last time you were urged to boycott Armenia for its occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh?
February 6, 2020
And lessons for the present.
In 1942, a German mining executive got a message to Gerhard Riegner, a lawyer working for the Jewish World Congress in Switzerland, with concrete information about the mass-murder of Jews in Poland. Riegner rushed to the American consulate to convey the information to the U.S. State Department and to American Jewish leaders. But, as Sol Stern writes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s State Department “had been turned into a vipers’ nest regarding the plight of the European Jews,” and its initial reaction was to keep the information secret:
When was the last time you were urged to boycott Armenia for its occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh?
A message to Arab parliamentarians.
And lessons for the present.
Proportionately, Jews are the victims of more hate crimes than blacks or Muslims.
The Vilna Gaon and Poland’s last king.
In 1942, a German mining executive got a message to Gerhard Riegner, a lawyer working for the Jewish World Congress in Switzerland, with concrete information about the mass-murder of Jews in Poland. Riegner rushed to the American consulate to convey the information to the U.S. State Department and to American Jewish leaders. But, as Sol Stern writes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s State Department “had been turned into a vipers’ nest regarding the plight of the European Jews,” and its initial reaction was to keep the information secret:
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