The Palestinians’ Catastrophe Is Our Catastrophe Too
The Palestinians’ Catastrophe Is Our Catastrophe Too
They’ve lost their country. Have we lost ours?
Above is my brand-new interview with Johnny Punish of VT Radio, one of the millions of unregistered Palestinian refugees. Johnny’s family, like Jafar Ramini’s, survived the massacres and expulsions from Palestine 75 years ago.
Below is a sneak preview of my forthcoming American Free Press article, posted here for my paid subscribers. -KB
The Palestinians’ Catastrophe Is Our Catastrophe Too
They’ve lost their country. Have we lost ours?
By Kevin Barrett, for American Free Press
On May 15 the world observed the 75th anniversary of the Nakba—the massacres and expulsions of the Palestinians by Zionist invaders. In his article “The Palestinian Genocide by Israel” international law professor Francis Boyle shows that Israel’s assault on Palestine perfectly fits the legal definition of genocide. Another fitting word is Holocaust, adapted from scripture to describe the attempted destruction of European Jewry during World War II. Hitler’s attempt to efface the Jewish presence in Europe bears comparison to Zionist efforts in Palestine.
One important difference is that the Germans were trying to ethnically cleanse their own land and its environs, whereas the Zionists crossed the seas in an effort to utterly destroy a people living thousands of miles away who had never done them any harm. Another important difference is that exaggerated accounts of the Jewish holocaust have been trumpeted at earsplitting volume all over the globe, fueled by a multi-billion-dollar propaganda industry, whereas the Palestinian Holocaust has been denied and downplayed, its survivors ignored, muzzled, censored, and (if they insist on testifying) persecuted.
One Palestinian Holocaust survivor who will not be silenced in Jafar Ramini, a Palestinian writer and political analyst who recently appeared on my radio show. Ramini was five years old when Zionist militias, following the Dalet Doctrine calling for the elimination of the Palestinians, began massacring civilians: “They demolished over 550 towns and villages. And, of course, the news of these massacres spread through Palestine like wildfire.”
When waves of terrified survivors began washing over Janin reporting that the murderous Zionists were advancing, his family fled: