How Nazism and Zionism killed my mother.

When she was two, the Nazi's arrested her father. Two days later her little brother was born. When she was three, she witnessed the Gestapo coming to arrest her mother, a memory she kept until the very last day, as vivid as if it happened only yesterday.
When she was four, she learned about her fathers death. He didn't survive Dachau. He died on the 30th of January 1945. He was 31 years old.
She watched how her mother wasn't able to cope with being widowed at 24 with two very small children. My grandmother never really could start grieving, because her husbands body was never found, she never stopped grieving until the day she died, worn out by grief.
Until this day, most Nazi's never repented, never said they where wrong, never apologised. On the contrary, given half a chance they will start it all over again.

Why I blame Zionism.

At 59, her brother still spends every night in a concentration camp, or to be more precise, in an extermination camp because Zionist propaganda mingled both types of camps, thus emphasising the horrors that happened during WWII. With no consideration whatsoever for the feelings of the secondary victims, Jewish or not.
Due to Zionism there is a total disregard in society for the 5 million other victims in Europe, or the 20 million victims in Russia. Zionist propaganda tries to lead us to believe that the only victims of Nazism where the 6 million Jewish victims. With not the least bit of regard for the frustration that causes to the loved ones of those other victims.

Most of those other victims where killed because they stood up against the injustice of a system that divides people in "inferior" and "superior" races. They stood up against the occupation of their country. They resisted against the requisition of their homes and belongings by an occupying force. They where outraged by random arrests. They where angry for the restrictions that stopped them from leading normal lives. Those people where called partisans, good patriots, the resistance. But not by the Nazi's, they called them terrorists.

By all means Zionist propaganda tries to stop us from drawing the parallels with what is going on in Palestine today.

My mother wasn't duped. She felt a very strong link between her own suffering and that of the Palestinian people.

That is why we should stop the expansion of Zionist propaganda. That is why we cannot allow Nazi's to abuse the Palestinian cause in order to get their disgusting anti-Semitic plan executed. That is why we don't have to explain time after time that being anti-Zionist is not being anti –Semitic or anti- Jewish.
That is why I will be going to the protest in support of the Palestinian resistance next Sunday, to honour my grandfather and his Brothers, here in the 1940's and in Palestine today and to commemorate my mother, who was to weak to take part in the protests of the last few months.
It ‘s the best send-off I can offer her.

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