Just as I arrived at Noga's house, the siren for Holocaust Remembrance Day began to sound, loud and piercing. Noga was running out of the house and she shouted at me: "Alarm, going down to the shelter!"
"The siren is for Holocaust Remembrance Day," I replied, and in response, Noga said: "We are a people in trauma."
Then she asked: "Shouldn't we stand by the siren?" I replied that this year I wouldn't stand by the siren for Holocaust Remembrance Day.
This year, the symbolism of the siren seems empty to me.
Do we remember, truly and sincerely, the lessons of the Holocaust? Our humanity, our moral duty to support, for example, Holocaust survivors rummaging through trash cans while they are voiceless? Do we remember our moral duty not to stand by?
What do the hollow speeches delivered at ceremonies by the "leaders of the state" tell us, while the kidnapped men and women languish in Hamas tunnels? After all, the ceremonies override the essence, and the voice of the "leaders" to cease the cruelty we show both towards the Palestinians and towards the weak and foreigners among us is not heard at all.
I have immense respect for the memory, the suffering, the history of the Holocaust and its consequences, but the hypocrisy that prevails this year, when we continue to chant "No more," makes me anxious. Therefore, instead of shouting slogans into the world, I chose, precisely out of responsibility and a genuine desire to remember, not to stand when the siren sounds for Holocaust Remembrance Day.
After all, public discourse is no longer a real discussion, but rather replaces compassion with fear and true historical discourse with hatred and meaningless comparisons.
I do not forget. I remember clearly and painfully and see in my mind's eye the penetrating judgmental gazes upon my decision. I also hear in my mind's eye the venomous spell "shame."
The shame is not mine, but rather that we did not learn from the Holocaust that it is forbidden to abandon people, that it is forbidden to remain silent in the face of injustice, and that if the siren is supposed to remind us of the horrors of the past, which we remember, then the abductees should remind us of our responsibility in the present.
I started to identify with you to a certain extent, until you got to the part about our "cruelty" towards the "Palestinians". That's where you lost me. In that case, it's better for you to stand by their sirens and participate in their ceremonies.
I agree with what you said.
Painful is the loss of the deep morality to which we have arrived.
Gentleness of mind, as it were?
Everyone will decide when they like it and when they don't.
There is no problem with your political views.
The problem is that the moment of similarity is not so that you can make comparisons between what was then and what is happening now, but so that you can remember what happened to our people in World War II.
So that you remember what they went through.
You need to remember their stories, the photographs and films from the Holocaust.
You need to be on another planet for a moment and identify with your people.
You have 365 days a year to protest, demand, and condemn, less than a minute.
It's time to cancel Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Most leftists are from there. My right.
You want to abolish Judaism, we want to abolish Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Who do you think you're interested in?
The shame is all yours.
Shame on anyone who seals the
His ears are ringing from listening to her criticism. According to our conduct here, we have lost the meaning of Holocaust remembrance. We have lost the meaning of the destruction of the Second Temple, we have lost the meaning of aspiring to a life of normative peace and tranquility, we have lost compassion for our brothers and sisters who are dying in the Hamas tunnels in Gaza. In short, we have lost it and she wants to wake us up to seek it back! Listen to the main point she is trying to reflect, not just the blandness of her manner of protest! This is such a lack of self-respect!!
A clearly illogical article that involves politics in the Holocaust disaster. We all want the return of the abductees. What is the price, especially for those who lost their loved ones and for the residents of the surrounding area? So, once again, introducing politics only harms unity.
Go to Germany, Eva Shenhar. What you did, a million Palestinians will thank you.
When a serving mayor in Israel accuses IDF soldiers of massacres like the Nazis, and a faculty member at the University of Haifa sympathizes with the "suffering" of the children in Gaza and those poor people who slaughtered, looted, murdered, raped, burned babies in their mothers' wombs, and compares our heroic sons to Nazis, this is another outrageous and outrageous act by someone who has forgotten that being Jewish is a piece of cake, long before the Holocaust, a people who have been through and are going through pogroms and mini-holocausts, but the barn burners and well poisoners in which they never rest and never end. And as a mother of maneuvering warriors for a year and a half, let me tell you: You are not worthy of sacrifice! A people with an incessant suicidal instinct
I'm ashamed that you were the president of the college I studied at.
What does desecrating the memory of 6 million people who were murdered simply because they were Jews or suspected of being Jews have to do with the current situation? You are a disgrace. You should take this turn and apologize.
Everyone thinks they have a taboo about everything. Ashamed Ashamed Ashamed
It seems to me that those holding the hostages are the Palestinian Nazis in Gaza. They are the Nazis of today. The followers of Hitler and Hajj Amin al-Husseini and Qawkji. The members of the Hamas movement, who engraved on their flag and wrote in their charter that Israel (and the Jews in general) must be destroyed…
It is debatable whether the current elected government, headed by Pipiahu, is indeed willing to do whatever it takes to return the hostages. The government and some of its supporters claim that the condition set by the Palestinian Nazis is not only the release of thousands of murderers of Jews from prison, but they also demand that we stop the war against them altogether and that we give them international guarantees that we will not renew the war against them – and that they be allowed to continue to rule Gaza and recover and grow stronger until they themselves initiate the next murderous attack and slaughter of the Jews (I think it is possible to deceive them and agree to the conditions and return the hostages and then violate the agreement and attack them again, but the elected prime minister claims not to be)…
In any case, this is a complicated and not simplistic political issue, and you should not assume that you are necessarily on the right side of it, and that there is some justification for your step (during the Oslo days, for example, when the disastrous Oslo government brought Arafat and his gang of Palestinian murderers here, and gave them the opportunity to control cities and villages and turn them into safe havens for terrorism from which hundreds of Palestinian terrorists emerged and murdered many hundreds of Jewish civilians [including Holocaust survivors], I don't remember any Jew saying that he would no longer stand by the siren because the elected government was not acting as he would have expected it to, and was abandoning Jews)...
right.
Excellent !!!
Well done, cheers.
May your strength be with you, Prof. Shenhar. I hope that this protest of yours will shake more hearts. I hope that civilized women will awaken and truly work to change the opacity that is taking place in every corner to hunger, to others, to the isolation of the thirsty. For compassion, to relief, to tolerance, to embrace, to the love of a true woman. A human being, free from symbols, full of actions.
Is there a Hebrew translation?
"Standing to remember".. Ok. You remembered, you remembered… Now what? Will there be any action as a result of this? Or just to feel good? Don't f**** your mind with your "feelings" and "memories". I don't care what's going through your head. I care what you actually do.
I haven't stood by the siren for years. As a third generation, since the army (more than 30 years) I keep hearing Jews say it's a shame they didn't exterminate us all. The siren is like Yom Kippur, you can do whatever you want all year long and on Yom Kippur you get forgiveness. The fact is that we are divided. We have failed as a nation to understand that we have no other place. That we are brothers. It turns out that we are the brothers Cain and Abel. In the last two years, there have been people who have been going through the Holocaust in the tunnels and that's okay for some people here. Absurd
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At the University of Haifa, a lecturer said that the Jews were guilty of the Holocaust during the Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony, and relied on a text that did not understand the Binding of Isaac. The short siren is a remembrance of the Holocaust and those who perished in it, without offending anyone. No one cares what you do with the siren. What is sad is that none of my young son's friends agreed to enroll at the University of Haifa, and its leaders are causing this, with their own hands.
One thing that was in national agreement - will we destroy that too? No one will understand why they are not standing. They will understand that they do not need to. And another sacred cow has been slaughtered. With all the pain, this demonstration will not achieve its goal.
They set Holocaust Remembrance Day on the wrong date. We're not sad in the month of Nissan. That's why I didn't stand either. They could have set a different date, but everything here revolves around Independence Day. The more depressed we are before it, the more we will supposedly celebrate this day. This is manipulation, the use of the Holocaust remembrance for nationalistic purposes. I hope people will sober up.
What you are saying is not honest and it is not really related to the excuse you wrote about the month of Nissan but rather to what you wrote afterwards. It is related to your heresy in what the State of Israel represents because the truth is that Nablus is Yom HaShoah, it was in the month of Iyar during the days of the counting of the Omer, you and the public you are educating were not standing on the horn, so please be honest before the Creator and do not use excuses.
Holocaust Remembrance Day and Heroism is not a day of mourning. And even without an order! They preach red wine, and specifically red, on the glass to remember, among other things, the Holocaust of the Jews of Egypt.
And speaking of the State of Israel and Holocaust Remembrance Day, this is a country that, out of respect for the Sabbath, brought forward the date of Remembrance Day a few days in order not to harm the sanctity of the Sabbath.
In God's name, I also did not mourn for a different reason. Holocaust Remembrance Day is set for the month of Nissan, when we do not lose our minds and do not say the Tachanun prayer. We are not supposed to be sad during this month. You have a place to mourn on another date, on the 10th of Tevet, for example, the day of general Kaddish.
This can explain today's attitude towards the generalities, but it is not an excuse to stand and do nothing for a minute, something that you and every person in any case do about a thousand things that they experience even in the month of Nissan as a human being.
It's unfortunate that you didn't understand the attitude of the nations towards the Jewish people.
You don't need the Holocaust to understand the destiny of the people of Israel.
"That's the problem with "never again" - it's something on the fringes."
Even now, after the baptism of the dead, there are confused people who helped the enemy because he is also a "human being." They are ready to continue doing so.
You can't distinguish between friend and foe.
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"Anyone who shows mercy to the cruel ends up being cruel to the righteous."
The reason for everything
Something went wrong with him, he was unable to analyze the situation with the simplest logic.
The progress is distorted, confusing.
The Land of Israel for the people of Israel with the Torah of Israel.
We did not deprive any "natives"
I understand all the considerations and feelings you presented in great detail. The "other side" is missing. And in this case, it is crucial. This is one of the problems of public and governmental discourse. Each side digs into its arguments, instead of preparing a simple table of the pros and cons, and only then reaching a conclusion.
Apparently she is a conditionally Jewish and a conditionally Zionist, and probably also a conditionally "democratic" one... The condition is that the people elect a Knesset and a government that they agree with (or, more accurately, that the heads of "her" flock run) and that does only what they "think is right to do." If, God forbid, a government that is not, is elected, then they immediately break the rules and don't play, and she is no longer Jewish or Zionist and doesn't care about nonsense like "democracy" - because this people is just an ignorant mob that elected people who are "fools!" and generally do bad things...
Just be ashamed of yourself.
Disrespecting/disrespecting Holocaust Remembrance Day
From a principle, how much further
We will arrive.
Their old age puts their youth to shame.
The sentence was written about the entire faculty of the University of Haifa in the extreme left that caused it to become Bir Zeit 2. Not a word of regret from them about this –!!
Shame on you, you are as worthless as 🤮 🤮 You humiliate and harm the survivors of the Holocaust. I pity the cruel Nazi enemy who raped, murdered, massacred, and burned like they did in the Holocaust.
The left is a barrier to racism from the right
Holocaust survivors had and still have more reasons in their gut against the state and against Israeli society, and they did not use such symbols and state affairs as a shovel to dig into according to what they felt like that year.
The above things are inappropriate and reflect poorly on the writer.
Why did you stand by the example of the years when Israelis were in captivity and why did you stand by the fact that Mapai and the Labor Party and Shinui gave less to Holocaust victims than they do today? Who believes you?
I never thought that sirens were being blared on Holocaust Remembrance Day for representatives of the public, the government, or even for the state.
I thought (and I still think) that we stand at the siren to unite with the memory of the victims. You refuse and don't you think it's appropriate to make the painful connection between yourself in the present and a significant historical event full of tragedy and suffering that you have a connection to? Please, do what you think is right.
But writing about it in a local newspaper as if it's some kind of statement beyond ego and narrow-mindedness? You've gone too far.
An empty article.
This is a poor woman belonging to Netori Kaplan.
What won't she do to get 'fasting' from the media.
You are a typical scoundrel. Who are you to define 'poor' and what is the nonsense about 'Netori Kaplan'?
Better than the crazy right wing
AI image, one of the most embarrassing you've posted.
Even to denigrate Holocaust Remembrance Day with a bad computer illustration?!
embarrassing!!!
Words of wisdom. Thought-provoking material.
I understand that your country was stolen.
What to do when there are elections in a democracy!
The Torah's ugly soul. Terrorists are not human beings. Neither are "unfortunate" Gazan children.
Hitler was also once a child.
Dear Aliza, your feelings are not a voice crying in the wilderness, they are present, engraved in the hearts of many, and I am with them, who experience with shock and pain the closing of the eyes and hearts of today's leaders in the face of the unspeakable suffering of our sons and daughters who are languishing in hell and there is no savior.
And next week, torches will be lit: "For the glory of the State of Israel"
And the Holocaust cries out with us even after 80 years, because it is here, in the eyes of the brides of the kidnapped, of the families of the anxious and painful people.
You're not that special or smart.
Find another arena to express your opinion on this or that behavior.
Holocaust Remembrance Day is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Honor it and keep your learned opinions to yourself, not to the people.