“EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ” – Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

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“EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ”

The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez and published in a Spanish newspaper on Jan. 15, 2008.

It doesn’t take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe – and possibly to the rest of the world.

REMEMBER AS YOU READ – THIS WAS IN A SPANISH NEWSPAPER

“ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ” – By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, and talent.

There is no equivalence between “freedom of speech” and Janet Peto’s thesis – by Harry Lieberman

To: “OISE Dean” dean.oise@utoronto.ca

Dear Julia O ‘ Sullivan,

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my letter.

I agree with you, whole heartedly, with the principles of freedom of speech and expression. It was, after all, a Jew, who fought for the legitimacy of making ‘genocide”- (coined by) Raphael Lemkin- a crime after the Holocaust. It was, in fact, a direct result of the lack of “freedom of speech” in Hitler’ s Germany that helped precipitate the Holocaust. Contrary to Janet Peto’s thesis , Europe and the world after the Holocaust was less than kind to Jews , “white” or black and the incidence of anti Semitism is not on a decline in Europe or the world, to the contrary statistics point to a thriving growth in anti Semitism.

It is no coincidence that there were 3.5 million Polish Jews pre-Holocaust and there are less than 1000 Jews left in Poland today or that the entire Jewish population in the Arab Middle East has been effectively cleansed. On a side note , it is Israel that took in “Black Jews” from Ethiopia and it is Israel where Black Muslims find refuge from an ongoing genocide in Darfur.

There is no equivalence between “freedom of speech” and Janet Peto’s thesis. In fact Janet Peto’s thesis is an outright act of discrimination against Jews.

Weekly Parsha and Update – December 19-25, 2010

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Parshah Shemot – Exodus 1:1-6:1
Torah Reading for Week of December 19-25, 2010 – Tevet 12-18 5771

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Eventually a new king came to power over Egypt who had no recollection of Yosef. (Shemos 1:8)

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The Jewish people came down to Egypt in 2238/1523 BCE. Ya’akov Avinu “died” after 17 years of bliss in Goshen, in the year 2255/1506. Yosef died 54 years after that in 2309/1452, and Levi died 23 years later in 2332/1429. He was the last of the Twelve Tribes to die, leaving behind no trace of Yosef’s immediate family. That’s where this week’s story begins, 94 years after the Jewish people had first descended to Egypt.

That’s a long time, isn’t it? The Torah makes it seem like a decade or two, but the math reveals that the Jewish people had been in Egypt for almost a century before conditions began to get worse, and worse, and the worst. However, the conditions didn’t get bad overnight; there must have been signs all along the way, but what difference did it make if no one paid attention to them?

The truth is, even during the golden era when Yosef was securely second-in-command we saw that Egyptians would not break bread with Hebrews. They found that disgusting, revealing that Jews were never fully accepted into Egyptian society. That was an important sign that all the niceties were purely for the sake of making Yosef want to stay around, to help steer the country through the rough times ahead.

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It is important that we as a people understand the trends taking shape now.