BBC “Forgets” Holocaust Memorial Day
January 27, 2013 14:36 by Simon Plosker
In its coverage of Holocaust Memorial Day, the BBC reports:
The millions of Jews and others killed during the Holocaust are to be remembered in services across the UK, as part of Holocaust Memorial Day.
Guess which story the “Unnamed page” on the BBC News site’s most shared section goes to. What an unfortunate error to say the least.
Joan
6:15 pm
Jan 27, 2013
Those that hate the Jew will be themselves hated ,you have been warned.
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watchtowerman
8:14 pm
Jan 27, 2013
Bulgaria has not forgotten. On 9 March 2013 the Bulgarians and Jews will celebrate 70 years of the rescue of Bulgarian Jews – 48 000
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Sid
9:54 pm
Jan 27, 2013
Well, well what does the JLC, BOD and the Office of UK Chief Rabbi Sacks do about it. Always afraid of being pro active they are left to act in a retroactive capacity.
It is time to call a halt to this madness and demand a full open UK Government enquiry as to how the BBC has got away with it so often!
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steven L
2:05 am
Jan 28, 2013
Poor BBC!
They must have had a lobotomy.
They know no shame.
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rosenberg
3:46 am
Jan 28, 2013
RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG
Sent: Sun, Jan 27, 2013 2:02 pm
Subject: UN Remembers Holocaust Victims – 2013
Our, the Jews, message to the world: The hands of time trends to cloud the world’ memory. It is our responsibility to rescue the history and lessons of the Holocaust just as the men and women that we honor on this Holocaust Memorial Day rescued the victims.
UN Remembers Holocaust Victims
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQc3NYBSlN4&feature=player_embedded
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Brent Pudsey
5:34 am
Jan 28, 2013
I think this is an example of forgetting history and the lessons we need to learn from our past. It is important to realize that the killing of racial , ethnic and national groups is still happening today.
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Rotem
12:23 pm
Jan 28, 2013
The British people has short term memory. They also forgot their random killings in the streets of Israel, before 1948.
I will NEVER put my feet, in the UK!!
Such a disgusting country!!!
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Marilyn
6:54 pm
Jan 30, 2013
Please, please do not tar us all with the same brush – there are very many of us in the UK who have been horrified by DVDs from the Hatikva Film Trust and have shed many tears for the evil that was done in the name of the British people, without their consent. So many of us Stand With Israel and the Jewish people at any and every opportunity. We love you – please don’t hate all of us!
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rosenberg
12:24 pm
Jan 28, 2013
. I have bowed out of the local interfaith Holocaust service, because it was a custom to include Hatikvah at the end, but now some Christian groups object as they support the Palestinians and the Muslim Imams would either sit or leave during the Hatikvah. Perhaps interfaith Holocaust programs no longer make sense, at least to me. I do not need the stress of seeing disrespect being afforded to Israel and nor do I wish to compromise by leaving Hatikvah out. This is a personal choice and I DO NOT ADVOCATE ANYONE NOT PARTICIPATING IN ANY INTERFAITH HOLOCAUST SERVICE. I INTRODUCED INTERFAITH HOLOCAUST SERVICES IN 1974 AND WAS ONE OF THE FIRST IF NOT THE FIRST TO DO SO. This was a difficult decision for me based on personal principle. The interfaith Holocaust memorials started as well intentioned way for the Jewish people and other groups to pause and reflect on man’s capacity to perpetuate unbelievable cruelty against his fellow and to commiserate as a group and others, with the Jews and hopefully prevent this nightmare from reoccurring. Over the years it was understandably modified to include other victims of genocidal mass killings, though these mass killings were not really analogous, as the Nazis were obsessed at not just killing Jews as a competing group, but Hitler desired to eliminate our creed and it’s pervasive influence on humanity, particularly Christian doxy. As a result of Muslim participation and twisted liberalism, this is morphing into a twisted canard where Israel is being blamed for perpetuating ethnic killings against the Palestinians as the Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis. One can understand the Islamo-Nazis belief system with a quote from the Talmud. We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are. RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG, CHILD OF Holocaust survivors and a refugee born in a D.P. camp.
Subject: Cementing Hate on Holocaust Memorial Day – Britain the thirsty for Jewish blood
Cementing Hate on Holocaust Memorial Day
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Jackie
1:05 pm
Jan 28, 2013
I agree with you totally. I have many friends who are in your position and I too lost family in the Holocaust. The rationale, these nations say, for omitting Hatikvah is that other peoples aside from Jews werre killed during the hoah. They ignore the fact that it was Jews who were targetted for elimination and that two-thirds of Europe;s Jews were killed. They also ignore the fact that, had Britain lived up to her obligations when given control of the Mandate, many of Europe’s Jews could have been saved. Instead, she blocked entrance to the Mandate. Many western nations, including the US, refused to accept Jews fleeing Hitler.
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Robert Shore
7:07 pm
Jan 28, 2013
It simply easier to lower the profile of the Holocost when it dosent fit their politics of the day. WE wouldnt want to offend the Arab participants. Let us not forget that prior to SETTELMENTS durring WW11 the palastinians (who were not referred to as Palastian) fought with Hittler agaist the west and got Hitlers promise to help elliminate the Jews of Palastine, but why bring up true history the new one works so well for the Arabs.
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rosenberg
4:50 am
Jan 31, 2013
I AM CALLING FOR A NATIONAL BOYCOTT BY JEWS OF ANY INTERFAITH HOLOCAUST PROGRAM WHERE HATIKAVAH IS INTENTIONALLY EXLUDED DUE TO MUSLIM PRESSURE OR CLERGY WHO SUPPORT THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE. PLEASE GET THE WORD OUT. RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG
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rosenberg
6:17 pm
Feb 09, 2013
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Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg says omitting the Israeli anthem from the Holocaust commemoration would be “giving in to the current atmosphere of anti-Semitism.”
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Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg says omitting the Israeli anthem from the Holocaust commemoration would be “giving in to the current atmosphere of anti-Semitism.”
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rosenberg
2:25 am
Feb 10, 2013
RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG will not attend and boycott if Imam sits during hatikvah.
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Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg says omitting the Israeli anthem from the Holocaust commemoration would be “giving in to the current atmosphere of anti-Semitism.”
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Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg says omitting the Israeli anthem from the Holocaust commemoration would be “giving in to the current atmosphere of anti-Semitism.”
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rosenberg
11:55 am
Feb 13, 2013
I have come to the conclusion that people like Rabbi Rosenberg threaten others because of the passion he brings to his message. My fantasy is that others would realize that his personal history is unique and while he functions as a rabbi in Edison, he also has worked for many years with the second generation community in the area, for no money, for no press, but because he identifed a need.
No one who was directly affected by the Holocaust and has spent years coping with that legacy, for many of us are in our forties, fifties and sixties now, want to take away anything from the mainstream Jewish community in this area, whose parents are not survivors of the death camps, etc. We accept that for the most part people, Jews, really don’t care to hear our stories and the incredible insight that our parents’ experiences have had on shedding light on our own lives, to permit us to push through challenges that others might find too daunting.
I think many of us 2-Gers watched our parents get up every day and function, and for me anyway, watching my mother walking to the farmers market with her basket every Saturday and then meeting me for lunch and filling my head with so many amazing stories, to take the bus home together, getting sick and laughing as we cosumed 2 pounds of beautiful sour cherries like there was no tomorrow. Those memories, just simple everyday connections where my mother was happy and engaged in life, Auschwitz number and all, filled me with a sense of awe and motivated me to go out in the world to try to make it a better place. And so many second generation individuals are just like me.
We know on a spritual level that Hatikvah and our survivor parents and Israel go hand in hand. We feel it everyday it is part of our DNA in a way that relates to my mother’s entire nuclear and most of her extended family being brutally murdered just because they were Jewish and that is the state of affairs for the Israelis at this very moment. They know that they could be hit by a rocket or have their children bombed into littele pieces coming home from school and this is not a movie, this is how it is for the Jewish people who live in Israel every day. My mother would not let me go to Israel during high school. She beleived that I would fall in love with the country and maybe with a person and decide to make aliyah. She said she lost too many people and that she needed me to live here.
The survivors and Israel and Hatikvah go together. That is a core belief in all of our families. The vast majority of the survivors went to Palestine and were there when Israel was made a state. My mother is one with Israel. Her only family to survive went to Palestine and Australia. And to this day, my mother says that there must be a G-d because after the Holocaust he gave me Israel. My mother and the other survivors need Israel, they needed Israel since the end of the Holocaust and the fact that they received in 1948 was the lifeblood that kept many survivors from committing suicide. When my mother attends Holocaust Memorial services with me and she hears Hatikvah she smiles, she cries very much with tears of joy, she looks proud, and she looks happy, and that makes me happy. So hopefully we can put Hatikvah back into all the Yom Hashoah services in the area. Because it is not about politics, these services are about the Holocaust which sadly is become lost withing the American Jewish community in its deep desire to fit in and not cause waves. Mirah
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rosenberg
1:11 am
Feb 14, 2013
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rosenberg
1:57 pm
Feb 20, 2013
HATIKVAH WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAM.
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ROSENBERG
10:40 am
Feb 24, 2013
HATIKVAH WILL BE SUNG AT THE HOLOCAUST SERVICE. I refused to compromise. Rabbi Rosenberg
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ROSENBERG
11:01 am
Mar 07, 2013
HATIKVAH has been included in every service since I created interfaith holocaust services in 1974 with no objection. N0 ONE HAS EVER WALKED out, sat down OR OBJECTED until recently. With Israel and Jews being attacked throughout the world, I PERSONALLY will and have fought to keep it in. We are living in a world where anti-SEMITISM is rampant especially in Europe where JEWS ARE FLEEING IN MASS to Israel and other countries. Everyone is entitled to their OWN opinion , I stand by mine. Another Holocaust is on the horizon. A nuclear extremist muslim regime would like nothing better than the complete destruction of Israel and if you listen to Morsi all Jews should perish.
I will be the keynote speaker at another Holocaust event that evening. I refuse to compromise my beliefs or allow the Hatikvah to be disgraced. I am taking my highway to what I believe in. Rabbi DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG
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ROSENBERG
5:32 pm
Mar 08, 2013
http://www.aish.com/j/as/The_History_of_Hatikvah.html
As it states,
• The British Mandate government briefly banned its performance in 1919 due to Arab anti-Zionist political activity.
• In 1944, Czech Jews spontaneously sang it at the entry to the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chamber and, as reported by a member of the Sonderkommando, were beaten by SS guards.
The link is clear, the Arabs were against Hatikvah before there was Israel or even before the myth of Palestinian people. Furthermore, Jews sang it while being led to their death. How dare anyone allow individuals to leave in protest during Hatikvah with the canard they are commemorating the Holocaust but against the State of Israel. Just keep quoting Dr Martin Luther King, Jr “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism.”
RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG
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