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From: "John Reimann" <1999wildcat at gmail.com>
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Subject: [socialistdiscussion] protest in the Warsaw Ghetto


I thought comrades might be interested in this:

Gaza Freedom Graffiti in the Warsaw Ghetto

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Monday 28th 2010

Yesterday, Israeli and Polish activists met in the ruins of Warsaw’s
old Jewish Ghetto.

The activists sprayed ‘Liberate All Ghettos’ in Hebrew, followed by
‘Free Gaza and Palestine’ in English on a wall of an original block in
the ghetto. The block is across the street from the last fragment of
the remaining perimeter wall of the Ghetto. They also hung Palestinian
flags from the wall.

This was first time such an action took place in the ghetto.

Yonatan Shapira former Israeli Air Force captain and now refusnik and
BDS activist said:

‘Most of my family came from Poland and many of my relatives were
killed in the death camps during the Holocaust. When I walk in what
was left from the Warsaw Ghetto I can’t stop thinking about the people
of Gaza who are not only locked in an open air prison but are also
being bombarded by fighter jets, attack helicopters and drones, flown
by people whom I used to serve with before my refusal in 2003.

I am also thinking about the delegations of young Israelis that are
coming to see the history of our people but also are subjected to
militaristic and nationalistic brainwashing on a daily basis. Maybe if
they see what we wrote here today they will remember that oppression
is oppression, occupation is occupation, and crimes against humanity
are crimes against humanity, whether they have been committed here in
Warsaw or in Gaza’.

Ewa Jasiewicz, activist with Kampania Palestyna and one of the
co-ordinators of the Free Gaza Movement who just returned from
participating in the Freedom Flotilla said:

`Yonatan could have been the pilot in the Blackhawk that dropped
commandos onto the Mavi Marmara that killed nine activists from our
flotilla. I could have been one of them. Poland is full of the ruins
of ghettos and death camps and shrines to those who sacrificed their
lives in the defence of not just their communities but in resistance
to fascism.

People here need to wake up and realise that occupations and ghettos
did not end with the end of the second world war. These tactics and
strategies of domination and control of other people and lands are
present in Palestine today and are being perpetrated by the state of
Israel. We have a responsibility to free all ghettos and end all
occupations’.

Poland continues to deepen its’ military and political alliance with
Israel whilst ignoring its obligations under international law to stop
the ghettoization of the West Bank by Israel’s apartheid wall and to
ensure the protection of civilians.

Kampania Palestyna together with the international Boycott, Divestment
and Sanctions movement, calls for an end to Israeli impunity and
degradation of human rights and international law.

Ewa Jasiewicz said, ‘Poland can no longer be a Greenzone for the
normalisation of Israeli apartheid. We all have the responsibility to
end the occupation and ghettoization of the Palestinian people’.

Yonatan Shapira said: ‘I was always taught growing up that the
atrocities that happened to the Jewish people here happened because
the world was silent. And therefore I cannot be silent. The Jewish
people needed to be liberated from the ghettoes, and now Israelis need
to be liberated from the crimes of their own government. Each one of
us can take part in this global struggle for justice, and support the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for the sake of not just
the Palestinian people but for Israelis too’.

www.kampania-palestyna.pl

www.bdsmovement.net

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