Thursday, January 28, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Robin Shepherd: British Parliament hosts anti-Zionist Auschwitz survivor for Holocaust memorial day - 'Yesterday, I attended the Holocaust memorial event at Auschwitz in Poland. Little did I know that back in my home country anti-Israeli activists had co-opted two Labour MPs to host a Holocaust survivor in Parliament… to lambast the State of Israel and to accuse Zionists of abusing the Holocaust for political aims. This gross perversion of the true meaning and significance of the day on which the civilised world was marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz was recounted first hand by Jonathan Hoffman, co-vice chair of the UK’s Zionist Federation and one of Britain’s leading pro-Israel activists. Hoffman attended the event and gives his account in the link below...'
