Warsaw Ghetto Fighter To Israeli Youth: Rise Up Against The Occupation

[Purveyor]

Statements challenging the national narrative aren’t exactly common in Israel on Holocaust Remembrance Day. So it was particularly refreshing to read on the Walla news portal about a different sort of speech delivered in honor of the day. According to the site [Hebrew], Havka Folman-Raban, who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, said the following words in a ceremony attended by Israeli youth at the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum in northern Israel:

Continue the uprising, but a different uprising, a modern one, against all evil. Rise up against racism, violence and hatred of the other, and the inequality. Rise up against the occupation, we mustn’t rule and humiliate another people. It is important to achieve peace and an end to the cycle of bloodshed.

http://972mag.com/nstt_feeditem/warsaw-ghetto-fighter-to-israeli-youth-rise-up-against-the-occupation/

[tavalon]

1. Wow, that's great!

[King_David]

2. Warsaw ghetto fighters,

True Heros of the Jewish Nation .

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. That's very impressive that you can simultaneously thump your chest

while ignoring the content of the OP.

I for one applaud that Havka Folman-Raban has the brass balls to not only fight the Nazis, but also speak truth to power about what his own country is doing to a different group of marginalized people.

It's too bad that there are few of his caliber that can actually tell it like it is.