JOSHUA BELL - BELL RAISES MONEY FOR HOLOCAUST MUSEUM

Backstroking the Jewish Tomorrow Jewish leaders of the 'Judenrate' had collaborated with the Nazis on the Holocaust; they had organised mass deportation of European Jews from the ghettos to the camps. Today's Israeli leadership wants Palestinian leaders to make similar decisions, argues Gilad Atzmon. …. Gilad Atzmon (gilad.co.uk) is an Israeli-born writer and jazz musician living in London. He had previously served in the Israeli military but he is currently an anti-racism campaigner. His latest CD is In Loving Memory of America. For some reason the Israelis are convinced that Nuclear energy is a ‘Jew only property’ The Jewish state insists on keeping its neighbours in a state of nuclear panic alert. The history of the Holocaust teaches us that the Jewish leadership at the time was actually very willing to collaborate with the Nazis all the way through. In fact it was the Judenrate* that managed and organised the mass deportation of European Jews from the ghettos to the camps. To follow Yishai’s logic, unlike the Palestinians, the Nazi era Jewish councils were taking some brave decisions. However, far more crucial at this stage is to urge Obama to make it clear to the Israelis that by saying ‘opportunities should be available to all” he refers also to Palestinian children who are starved and slaughtered by the Israeli armed forces on a daily basis. * Judenräte (singular Judenrat; for "Jewish council") were administrative bodies that the Nazis required Jews to form in the German occupied territory of Poland and later in the occupied territories of the USSR.

Good on you Joshua, However, I must clarify that this is not a Holocaust Museum but rather a museum dedicated to the 1,000 year history of Polish Jews - the Holocaust was its most tragic event of course so it will be covered indeed. It is intended as a living museum intended to reconnect in some small way the thread of life that was cut by Nazi Germany.