Witness the courageous intervention of a lone man bearing a Palestinian flag on stage at the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising on April 19. With his protest, this still unknown figure injected a sense of universalism into the commemoration at a time when besieged ghetto partisans from Gaza to Tulkarem rebel against a genocidal Israeli occupier cynically asserting ownership over the memory of the Holocaust.
Marek Edelman, the former Deputy Commander of the Jewish Military Organization in Poland, also insisted on the universal significance of the Warsaw ghetto uprising he helped to lead. In a 2002 open letter to Palestinians, he likened the militants leading the Second Intifada to his own comrades in Warsaw. While cautioning them against attacking civilians, he advised the fighters of the al-Qassam and Al Aqsa Martyrs brigades, "the current unfolding of events depends on you, the Military Leaders." otwarta.org/en/wp-content/…
The memory of the Warsaw uprising can be applied to anyone warring against their besieger, including and especially those ghetto fighters currently battling the tyrannical armies of Zionism.
Mike