Holocaust

The Victims’ Pact: Rawanda and Israel

August 12, 2024 UNAC Editor Civil War, Colonialism, Congo, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Propaganda, Rwanda, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, July 31, 2024 Rwanda weaponizes the Rwandan Genocide to justify its violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), just as Israel weaponizes the Holocaust to justify its violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Rwanda is the Israel of Africa. The two nations reinforce one another in a longstanding victims’[…]

Palestinian President Abbas’ Holocaust Remark and German Hypocrisy

August 20, 2022 UNAC Editor Europe, Germany, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Peter Schwarz, published on World Socialist Website, August 18, 202 A statement by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas comparing Israeli massacres of Palestinians with the Holocaust has provoked from German media outlets and politicians a storm of indignation that would be hard to beat for its mendacity. At a joint press conference with Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday, Abbas[…]

500 Years of Nakbas

May 18, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Racism

by Glen Ford, originally published on Black Agenda Report “The Palestinians face the last bastion of legalized racial rule on the planet.” The great nakba, or “catastrophe,”began in 1492, when Christopher Columbus proclaimed the lands of the “Indies” for Spain. Within half a century of his voyage, 95 percent of the inhabitants of the America’s had been killed by European-borne[…]