Holocaust Memorial Day; Why Palestine’s Mahmoud Abbas is Kidding No-one With ‘Sensational’ Comments

Posted By on April 28, 2014

Mahmoud Abbas, seen here with Barack Obama, has denied the Holocaust and continues to do so.Reuters Aside from Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Holocaust Memorial day in Israel is probably the most solemn day on the Israeli Jewish calendar, a day of mourning and reflection, a day to commemorate the victims, but also to ponder our current situation and try and comprehend how all this fits in to the continuity of Jewish history. For Jewish Israelis, the Holocaust is a living memory, not only because survivors of that tragedy, our grandparents, great uncles and aunts, are still among us to testify and remind us of the horrors that they survived, but also because of our more recent history, and the fact that anti-Semitism continues to be a serious problem, practically the world over, and that we remain the target of genocidal threats.

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Holocaust Memorial Day; Why Palestine's Mahmoud Abbas is Kidding No-one With 'Sensational' Comments

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