Quick, hide the truth,
ban that book. All schools
must remain an "Anne Frank Only Zone"
link A children's novel about a Palestinian girl set against the conflict in the Middle East has sparked outrage in Canada's Jewish community — with some school trustees demanding the book be removed from reading lists and libraries.
The Shepherd's Granddaughter, by Canadian author Anne Laurel Carter, tells the story of Amani, a young teenage girl living outside a Palestinian village in the West Bank, who dreams of being a shepherd. The novel — told through Amani's eyes — also depicts her family members' losses and their reactions to encroaching Israeli settlements
The Jewish Tribune recently wrote an article about the novel quoting hurtful comments made toward Jews on Goodreads.com.
"One book by itself is never going to make any child any sort of bigot. Along with other things though, yes, it could. I don't think that's a process that the schools should be helping along," said Brian Henry, a parent in Toronto who writes for the Tribune.
He says schools should be "a politics-free zone."
Except for "The Diary of Anne Frank" which I'm certain is considered "allowable" reading,and I think that book would be considered political. It puts forth the Jewish holocaust, yet with regards to the Palestinian holocaust, that must be ignored, censored or banned. Never mind that the Jewish Holocaust is long over, but the Palestinian holocaust is a long drawn out holocaust, that has gone on for years, where Palestinians are killed slowly over time, 2 or 3 a month, sometimes more like during Cast Lead, when Israel thinks it can get away with it. That must at all costs be censored or banned from being told. There's more::
B'nai Brith Canada has publicly denounced the novel, saying it "demonizes" Israelis and portrays Palestinians as innocent.
"My reading of the book is I walk away feeling hurt and marginalized and offended by the falseness of what's in the book. I don't walk away feeling I've just read a nice little story," said Anita Bromberg, the legal director of B'nai Brith.
Oh look, the truth makes her feel hurt, marginalised and offended. But that's nothing compared to the feeling of being homeless as you watch fat Zionist settlers feathering their newly stolen nests on your former land.
Logging you in...
myakru 1p · 797 weeks ago
I just found your blog. Thought, Id like to comment on this one:
Why do you call it a "holocaust". I mean it comes from the greek "holos" -completely and "kaustos" burnt. So as nearly all European Jews were killed, it fits here.
But it surely doesn't fit for the Palestinians. I mean, the number of Palestinians is growing, isn't it.?! How can "everybody be killed" when the number of people is growing???
I4P 42p · 797 weeks ago
myakru 1p · 797 weeks ago
I have NOT read wiki in this case...- some classes greek ;-)
I did get the part of a holocaust in stages. You dont need to teach a german about Shoa ;-) ! So, I dont think there are similarities between IL and Nazi Germany. Look, you call it serve the "Zionist Führer", well all male germans have the obligation to serve too. As in Germany you can also choose civil service in Israel- for instance you can work in Israeli-Arab youth centres or Neve Schalom and so on and so on...!
So anyway, if you think its a holocaust taking place then everything the Israeli goverments are doing, is done to -lets say- break the Palestinians??
So in your mind is creating new jobs and pushing the Palestinian economy (in Westbank) (as this IL-government has done so far) some kind of a cover for their real motivation?
As are various projects were Jews and Arabs are trying to work together? (Orchestras, football camps, music camps etc...) ?
I mean you need understanding for each other on both sides and these projects as Neve Schalom/Wahat el-Salam do exactly that. Especially for the children as they are the ones who probably may be able to overcome that situation and create lasting peace. So, do you think it helps if the PLO (fatah, however you may call them) forbids Palestinians right that because it may create more normal relationships with the Israelis?!
I4P 42p · 797 weeks ago
myakru
It’s great that you read Wiki, however you need to keep reading in order to understand the word holocaust which encompasses quite a lot. Let’s start here and please note the word “genocide” in the many sections below:
WIKI: Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος [holókaustos]: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt")[2], also known as the Shoah (Hebrew): השואה, Romanized ha'shoah; Yiddish: חורבן, Romanized churben or hurban[3] is the term generally used to describe the *GENOCIDE* of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany
Historical usage of Holocaust
The word holocaust has been used since the 18th century to refer to the * violent deaths of a large number of people.*[13]
For hundreds of years, the word holocaust was used in English to denote massive sacrifices and great *slaughters or massacres.*
I4P 42p · 797 weeks ago
Use of the term Holocaust for Jewish and non-Jewish victims
While the terms "Shoah" and "Final Solution" always refer to the fate of the Jews during the Nazi rule, the term "Holocaust" is sometimes used in a wider sense to describe other *GENOCIDES* of the Nazi and other regimes
Hence, if you read the definition of holocaust, you will note the interchangeable use of the word "holocaust and genocide" (from the root words genos (Greek for family, tribe or race) and -cide (Latin for killing).[1] ), and vice versa. In fact, a Jew named Lemkin who lost 49 relatives in the Holocaust went on to dedicate his life to defining what a genocide is and how one is perpetrated.
Additionally this next section (from wiki) under the heading of “holocaust” is quite important in reference to the Nazi’s killing of Jews and Lemkins work which describes the continuing holocaust of the Palestinian people today, which I will explain:
I4P 42p · 797 weeks ago
1. The persecution and *genocide* were carried out in stages. Legislation to remove the Jews from civil society was enacted years before the outbreak of World War II.
And this:
2. Every arm of Nazi Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics of the mass murder, turning the country into what one Holocaust scholar has called *a genocidal state*
Note that a holocaust can be committed in “stages” (which Lemkin covers in GREAT detail in his work below) and that the “state or government” was involved in all areas. This could be said of Israel today, passing laws to evict Palestinians from their homes and land, the IDF’s policy of shooting children and civilians, using human shields, internment of Palestinians, the ethnic cleansing of areas of the west bank and jerusalem. In fact, the Israeli government funds and supports this, just like the nazi government did in Germany.
I4P 42p · 797 weeks ago
Another similarity is that just like in Nazi Germany, the entire population were meant to serve the Führer and most of the population served in the army, So it is in Israel, where the entire population must serve the Zionist Führer by mandatory joining of the IDF.
Now we turn to Lemkin and his work to hammer home the point regarding the genocide/holocaust. And be sure to note the stages involved without timeframe. The mere fact that in Nazi Germany long ago a holocaust was accomplished in only a few years, in today’s world Israel is committing a holocaust on Palestinians in stages, which, you should be able to clearly recognise in Lemkins work below::
In 1944, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published Lemkin's most important work, entitled Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, in the United States
Lemkin became an advisor to Supreme Court of the United States Justice and Nuremberg Trial chief counsel Robert H. Jackson.
This treaty had confined its consideration solely to physical aspects of genocide which The Convention defines as:
I4P 42p · 797 weeks ago
…any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, such as:
•(a) Killing members of the group;
•(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
•(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
•(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
•(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Lemkin's broader concerns over genocide, as set out in his "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe",[5] also embraced what may be considered as non-physical, namely, psychological acts of genocide which he personally defined as:
I4P 42p · 797 weeks ago
•"Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups. Genocide is directed against the national group as an entity, and the actions involved are directed against individuals, not in their individual capacity, but as members of the national group."
I4P 42p · 797 weeks ago
•"Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor. This imposition, in turn, may be made upon the oppressed population which is allowed to remain or upon the territory alone, after removal of the population and the colonization by the oppressor's own nationals."
He also outlined his various observed "techniques" [6] on achieving genocide which ranged from:
•Political
•Social
•Cultural [7][8]
•Economic
•Biological
•Physical:
•Endangering Health
•Mass Killing
•Religious
•Moral
Hence is is clear to the world that Israel is committing a staged holocaust on Palestinians, and the holocaust will continue until the Zionists are forced by law or threat to return to the human race