by Pier Marton | Jan 19, 2011 | Antisemitism, Art, Galleries, History, Ideas, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Objects, Politics, Shoah, Spectacle, Time, Wars
Experience the Warsaw Ghetto (at Yad Vashem) in Haaretz They once asked Yitzhak Zuckerman, one of the commanders of the uprising, what the IDF can learn from the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. He replied that the IDF doesn’t have to learn anything from the Warsaw...
by Pier Marton | Jan 12, 2011 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars
From the founder of Esperanto, an ophthalmologist of great vision: “I am profoundly convinced that every nationalism offers humanity only the greatest unhappiness… It is true that the nationalism of oppressed peoples — as a natural self-defensive...
by Pier Marton | Jan 12, 2011 | Death, Human Rights, Media, Politics, Spectacle, Wars, Women
From a Canadian friend: about “Hate Crimes.” From the NYTimes’ Bob Herbert: “I remember having lunch with Marian Wright Edelman, the president of the Children’s Defense Fund, a few days after the Virginia Tech tragedy. She shook her head at the...
by Pier Marton | Jan 6, 2011 | Death, Health, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Politics, Wars
Menachem Froman and Ibrahim Abulhawa at Froman’s daughter’s wedding. From Richard Silverstein’s Tikkun Olam website. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Jan 4, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Books, Care, Death, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Media, Politics, Spectacle, Wars
War is lie, the book/website. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Dec 29, 2010 | Antisemitism, Death, Doc, Ego, Film, France, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Juif, KeyFilm, Politics, Racism, Review, Shoah, Time, Travel, Wars, Women
Did you read this article in the NYTimes about the Nazis’ “Safe Haven” in the U.S.? Then you may want to read/see this below. My short review: One of the greatest films on the Holocaust (and beyond). Helps one understand how one conjugates “To Lie...