{"id":30690,"date":"2023-12-19T18:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T02:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=30690"},"modified":"2023-12-19T18:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T02:42:23","slug":"auschwitz-museum-decries-israeli-mayors-sick-call-to-empty-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/auschwitz-museum-decries-israeli-mayors-sick-call-to-empty-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Auschwitz Museum Decries Israeli Mayor’s ‘Sick’ Call to ‘Empty’ Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An infamous sign reading “Work Sets You Free” stands at the gate to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: John Karwoski\/flickr\/cc)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We do hope that Israeli authorities will react to such shameful abuse, as terrorism can never be a response to terrorism.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BRETT WILKINS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dec 18, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland on Sunday decried what critics called genocidal remarks by the mayor of an Israeli town who said all of Gaza should be ethnically cleansed of Palestinians and turned into a museum like the notorious Nazi death camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The whole Gaza Strip needs to be empty. Flattened. Just like in Auschwitz,” Metula Mayor David Azoulai said in a radio interview on Sunday, according to<\/a>The Times of Israel<\/em>. “Let it be a museum for all the world to see what Israel can do. Let no one reside in the Gaza Strip for all the world to see, because October 7 was in a way a second Holocaust.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in O\u015bwi\u0119cim, southern Poland wrote<\/a> on social media that “David Azoulai appears to wish to use the symbol of the largest cemetery in the world as some sort of a sick, hateful, pseudo-artistic, symbolic expression.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Calling for acts that seem to transgress any civil, wartime, moral, and human laws, that may sound as a call for murder of the scale akin to Auschwitz, puts the whole honest world face-to-face with a madness that must be confronted and firmly rejected,” the museum added. “We do hope that Israeli authorities will react to such shameful abuse, as terrorism can never be a response to terrorism.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memory of victims of Auschwitz has, at times, been violated and instrumentalized in various extreme statements.

David Azoulai appears to wish to use the symbol of the largest cemetery in the world as some sort of a sick, hateful, pseudo-artistic, symbolic expression.

Calling\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/ELvU1aOacs<\/a><\/p>— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) December 18, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>