Chris Hedges Report: The Shared Mythology of Israel & the US
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/02/chris-hedges-report-the-shared-mythology-of-israel-the-us/
In the face of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, Prof. Joan Scott discusses the relevance of the late Amy Kaplan’s Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The narratives surrounding Israel and their genocidal campaign…
#Politics #Books #Commentary #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Media #Palestine #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Amalekites #AmyKaplan #AntiDefamationLeague(adl) #AntonioGramsci #C.l.r.James #ChristianZionism #DavidShipler #EdwardSaid #ElieWiesel #FredaKirchwey #Haganah #Hamas #HannahArendt #Holocaust #I.f.Stone #JimmySwaggart #JoanPeters #JoanScott #JohnChancellor #LeonUris #MarekEdelman #MartinBuber #MenachemBegin #NormanFinkelstein #PaulNewman #PeterNovick #Puritans #RabbiDavidHartman #RashidKhalidi #RichardSlotkin #SabraMassacre #ShatilaMassacre #TheChrisHedgesReport #TheIrgun #TheNation #TheNewYorkTimes #ThomasFriedman #WarsawGhetto #YeshayahuLeibowitz

In Episode 61, Bill closes with a quote from the legendary Elie Wiesel about the obligation to protest.

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GREAT words of wisdom from a Nazi Holocaust survivor

#ElieWiesel, écrivain et #survivant de la #Shoah, #prix #Nobel de la #paix 1986 :

" J'ai juré de #ne #jamais #me #taire quand des êtres humains endurent la #souffrance et l'#humiliation, où que ce soit .
Nous devons toujours prendre parti.
La #neutralité aide toujours l' #oppresseur , jamais la #victime .
Le #silence encourage le #persécuteur jamais le #persécuté"

Re-reading Night, completely unrelated to anything that may be going on, I'm sure. I'm going through the Preface to the New Translation (2006) and it's haunting. There is a line that is now burned into my brain:

"Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow."

In practice, the ethical stance often depends on the context & the stakes involved. Remaining neutral or silent in the face of injustice allows oppressive systems to persist. Injustice thrives on inaction. Silence signals complicity.

But you can also argue that there are situations where neutrality might be necessary or strategic, such as voiding escalation & preserving peace.
In certain situations it may enable mediation or diplomacy.

Useless quote for 5 Nov:

"Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal?

How can a human being be illegal?"

~ Elie Wiesel, "The Refugee" in "CrossCurrents" Vol. 34, No. 4 (Winter 1984-5), pp. 385-390

Apropos the #PressIsComplicit fracas over the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post suddenly deciding that endorsing candidates goes beyond the purview of EDITORIAL BOARDS (whose entire schtick is to have oppinions), we should all perhaps rememeber:

"To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you." — Elie Wiesel — — — #ElieWiesel #quote #quotes #learn #ancestors #legacy #education #past #books #experiences#

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."

Elie Wiesel

Fijne #bevrijdingsdag allemaal #ElieWiesel

Wiesel spent last week listening to #Uyghur Muslim survivors of Chinese repression and was horrified by the stories. From forced sterilization to physical intimidation to murder, Wiesel says the Chinese government is responsible for these horrific acts, and the #ElieWiesel Foundation wants to get these stories out. He said the move is similar to the works of his father, who often tried to draw attention to genocide and repression in #Rwanda and the former Soviet Union.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/22/uyghur-persecution-holocaust-elie-wiesel-son

#ElieWiesel says he doesn't approve of Palestine's methods cos violence is never the answer. Israel will cooperate, his words. How he'd be surprised to learn of Israel today, of the way it behaves, less than one century later, in a similar fashion as Nazi Germany? I didn't like his book. Its bite sized bits of text annoy me. His prose is horrendous, his testimony nothing I haven't read before, his faith in god irritating. But it's about the #Holocaust, you have to like it! Why? #night #books

... hängt schon seit Jahren in meiner Küche und gewinnt erneut an Bedeutung...

#eliewiesel
#niewiederistjetzt
#holocaustmemorialgarden
#ausschwitz

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. - (Elie Wiesel)

Are we defined by our attitude toward gratitude? Elie Wiesel believed so. Share a moment when gratitude made a difference in your life.

El intelectual judío que lo perdió todo por criticar a #Israel. #Finkelstein

#industriaDelHolocausto #ElieWiesel #BernardLewis #AlanDershowitz #LigaAntidifamación #CongresoMundialJudío #dePaulUniversity #gazaGenocide #GenocidioEnGaza

https://www.elperiodico.com/es/internacional/20180603/norman-finkelstein-el-intelectual-judio-que-lo-perdio-todo-por-criticar-a-israel-6834345

According to #ElieWiesel the #opposite of #love is not #hate but rather #indifference or #apathy

Literarischer #30September

„Von einem Menschen, der so ist wie ich, kann ich nichts lernen.“

#ElieWiesel Geburt 1928

Quote from his Nobel Peace Prize 1986 Acceptance Speech. #quote #eliewiesel #nobelpeaceprize