The Holocaust and Defence of the Palestinians

Suzanne Weiss was born to a Jewish family in France during the Second World War. The French government was then rounding up the Jews, solely because of their religious and ethnic background, and deporting them to Hitler’s death camps.

Her parents belonged to a Jewish resistance organization. It was united with other immigrant groups and with French working people – Jewish, Christian, and Muslim together – in the battle against the Nazis. She writes that the same forces that were responsible for the slaughter of the Jews then are now oppressing the Palestinian people.

“Because the German Nazis killed six million Jews, the U.S., Canada, and Israel insist that Palestinians must pay the price today”, says Weiss…. and,  “Today we must join in a similar broad alliance, this time to defend the Palestinians and to oppose Zionism.”

THE HOLOCAUST AND DEFENCE OF THE PALESTINIANS

Forces responsible for slaughter of Jews
now oppress the Palestinian people

By Suzanne Weiss

This article is based on a talk given to a meeting of Muslim Unity of Toronto on December 23, 2006.

Sixty years ago, a mass slaughter – a holocaust – was carried out against European Jews. Today its memory is being misused to build support for Zionism and to oppress and murder the Palestinians.

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