Human Rights

BY BRUCE NEUBURGER Interior view of the destroyed Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, Berlin, burned on Kristallnacht. Photograph Source: Center for Jewish History, NYC – Public Domain. Germany, November 1938 On November 7, 1938, a 17-year-old German Jewish student walked into the German consulate in Paris and asked to speak to the German consular. When he was told he was unavailable the young man, Herschel Grynspan agreed to speak to a lower-level official, Ernst Vom Rath. When the official appeared Grynspan pulled a pistol and shot him in the abdomen. Vom Rath died of his injury two days later. Word of Vom Rath’s death reached Germany at a moment when the Nazi Party leadership was in Munich celebrating the anniversary of the 1923 Beerhall Putsch. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi min...

Posted by: John Phoenix Day 272 Day 272 of the ongoing Nazi Holocaust of the Palestinians in the besieged, destroyed, and starved Gaza Strip, the Nazi army continued the bombing of various parts of the coastal enclave, killing and wounding dozens, including women and children. The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that the army killed 45 Palestinians, and injured 125, including many women and children, in several parts of the coastal enclave. Thousands of Palestinians continued to flee the heavily bombarded eastern areas of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, heading towards the western area of the city, after the Nazi army ordered their evacuation. https://twitter.com/i/status/1808787281404219772 Palestinian armed resistance grou...

Posted by: John Phoenix Day 271 Day 271 of the ongoing Nazi Holocaust of the Palestinian people in the destroyed and besieged Gaza Strip, the Nazi army continued the bombing of various parts of the coastal region, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, while the Gaza European Hospital had to shut down after being constantly attacked, and running out of medical supplies. Medical sources at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, said five Palestinians were killed and many were injured, all from the same family, after the army fired a missile at their home in the center of the city. The sources said Kamal Awad Banat was killed along with his son Abdul-Salam, and his daughters, Raghad, Hidaya, and Rama, and added that his fourth daughter, Raw’a, remains under th...

Posted by: John Phoenix The power is off, communication is cut. Horea and her family - and 2 million others - are isolated and in the dark. (photo)  When bombs are dropping all around you, do you embrace your wretched life, or pray for death? From Gaza, Horea shared her heart. by Kathryn Shihadah, reposted from Patheos, Grace Colored Glasses, October 9, 2023 Horea Americans, we can not hide our heads in the sand any longer. Today we learn from an expert what it’s like to sit through Israeli airstrikes. Below is part of a conversation I had with my dear niece Horea, and a message she wanted me to pass on to you. Horea lives in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. She is 26 and lives with her parents and eight younger siblings. She and I have been commun...