An effective tool for prolonging many of the genocides over the last one hundred years was to make sure that the human rights atrocities were either unknown, the information was skewed, or by diminishing the act itself through language and politics. The recent moves by some in Poland’s government to diminish Poland’s role in the […]
As refugee funds are limited, assistance should be concentrated on those who are worst off—individuals and communities that are victims of genocide.
Establishing the facts in an objective review could possibly achieve some form of justice for victims of war crimes and genocide.
2017 will either be the year in which governments decide to stop genocide in the Middle East or allow these atrocities to be normalized.
“It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.” -Albert Einstein
This year the world commemorates the 70th anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Another sad 70th anniversary coming up in the fall is the massacre of the Jewish population in a ravine near Kyiv in Ukraine. The ravine called Babi Yar, or Babyn Yar in Ukrainian, is a site where around 100,000 […]
Last week, Iranian President Ahmadinejad once again outraged the world by calling the Holocaust a “myth”. To be honest, it is embarrassing to me as a Muslim when I see a Muslim leader espouse such vitriol. This summer I went to the Dachau concentration camp and it was one of the most heart wrenching experience. […]