Humanist and Christian leaders have come together to urge as many people as possible to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The move, by the UK’s humanist movement and by Churches Together in England the Scottish Church Leaders Forum on behalf of their around 60 member churches, is being made now that everyone over 40 has been […]
‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” runs a Palestinian slogan. Originally a call for a secular state in historic Palestine between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean, it soon became a sectarian slogan, deeply inflected by antisemitism. In the hands of Hamas, it is a call for the driving out of all Jews from the region; at best, a demand for ethnic cleansing, at worst for genocide. The founding charter of Likud, Israel’s.
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May. 10, 2021
As Israel s national Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, bears witness, Denmark plays a special role in Jewish history, thanks to the Danish resistance s successful evacuation of most of the country s Jewish population to Sweden in 1943, during the German occupation.
But there is also a shameful side to the same story. That s because of how Danish officials, both before and during the Nazi occupation, collaborated in returning Jewish refugees back to Germany, and to their deaths.
As the Danish minister of justice, Karl Kristian Steincke, stated in 1937: We will not be inhuman, but we dare not be human, because of the consequences. In this case, it was fear of Denmark’s powerful neighbor to the south.