When people upset about Israel's crimes wrote
about the suffering of occupied Palestinians as reply
to Auschwitz Museum's post showing faces
of the murdered, asking the Museum to comment,
to take a stand, to condemn, I often replied saying,
it was not the place to ask, or the Museum's
to condemn. Pleading to people to keep
the Holocaust and Israel's crimes separate
And now, when Israel is committing a genocide
in Palestine and massacring Lebanon, when people
talking about the slaughter bring up the Holocaust
up, historical trauma, against which I didn't spoke
before, because I thought it did play a role, I will
reply, "Please, not now. This is not the time
or place to bring up the long dead to excuse
the murder of being killed now. Have even
a little decency, and be silent."
24.10.2024
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