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Pro-Palestinian Dutch activist passes away at 91 on Wafa

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Pro-Palestinian Dutch activist Margriet Teders passed away last Tuesday in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She was 91.
…Teders hung the Palestinian flag on her house walls. She also raised it on her apartment balcony so people passing by would be reminded of the justice of the Palestinian cause, as she used to say. “Sign here to demolish the Israeli wall in the occupied Palestine,” and “The Apartheid state is committing genocide,” were only a few of the slogans Teders used to hold during protests calling for freedom of Palestinians.

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Arab Israeli MK says Israelis remain silent while Palestinians oppressed, just like Germans under Nazis on i24NEWS

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“During Kristallnacht thousands of Jewish businesses and synagogues were burned, while the Germans remained silent. Today, as the homes of Palestinians are burned, as churches and people are burned alive – the majority in Israel remains silent,” she said, drawing a comparison between Nazi Germany and and the current situation in Israel and the West Bank… “The central lesson of the Crystal Night has not been learned,” said Zoabi. Accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” modeled on Nazism, she denounced half a dozen Israeli officials by name for what she referred to as recent efforts to “justify the use of violence toward Palestinians.”

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Human Rights Watch to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: “Show pics of death and destruction in #Gaza”

Executive Director of Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, Sarah Leah Whitson, tweets to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Show pics of death and destruction in #Gaza" (sarahleah1, 2015)
Executive Director of Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, Sarah Leah Whitson, tweets to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: “Show pics of death and destruction in #Gaza”

 

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