Holocaust survivor: Palestinians subjected to the longest ethnic cleansing of the 20th and 21st centuries

Published December 04,2023

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Gabor Mate, a famend Jewish physician and author who survived the Holocaust, just lately acknowledged in a TV broadcast relating to the occasions in Gaza, “What’s happening in Palestine is the longest ethnic cleansing operation of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is still ongoing.”

Mate expressed that what’s at present occurring to Palestinians by Israel is akin to the genocide inflicted upon his personal individuals up to now. The Jewish physician, who survived the Holocaust, remarked that visiting the locations the place Palestinians dwell brings tears to his eyes each day.

Here are the key notes from the televised speech of Dr. Mate:

“I’m a Jew who survived the Holocaust. My grandparents, my friends have been killed in Auschwitz. Most of my household was killed. That’s my historical past.

I grew up ashamed of being Jewish. After the warfare in Hungary, I used to be nonetheless being bullied for being Jewish. I bear in mind a good friend coming to my rescue, saying, ‘Leave him alone. It’s not his fault he is Jewish; it is his father’s fault.

In my youth in Canada, I turned a Zionist. The barbed wire of Auschwitz was changed by borders and a strong military for the Jewish state.

I discovered this liberating. Believing on this dream was thrilling. Then I discovered that it was by no means like that. To notice the Jewish dream, you needed to make hell for the native individuals. Israeli, Jewish Israeli historians have proven us definitely. The expulsion of Palestinians was ruthless and brutal. And it was intentional. That’s why they name it Nakba, ‘The Great Catastrophe‘ in Arabic. Now in Canada, there is a regulation; you can’t deny the Holocaust. I do not consider in such legal guidelines, by the best way. But in Israel, you can’t discuss Nakba.

Even although it is on the core of the nation… I visited the occupied territories through the first Intifada… I cried each day for 2 weeks due to what I noticed. The brutality of the occupation, the harassment. Or the chopping down of Palestinian olive timber. Withholding water, humiliations…

It continued to worsen… It was the longest ethnic cleaning operation of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. And it is nonetheless happening…

As a Jew, I can fly to Tel Aviv tomorrow and declare citizenship below the ‘Right of Return’ regulation. But my Palestinian good friend Hanna Kawas in Vancouver; regardless of being born in Jerusalem, she will be able to’t even go to there.”