Suzanne Weiss is a long time pro Palestinian Jewish activist and a member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada.
In her article “Holocaust survivor: Why I support Palestinian rights” published on April 9, 2010 Suzanne Weiss wrote:
I am a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust, the Nazis’ mass murder of Europe’s Jews. The tragic experience of my family and community under Hitler makes me alert to the suffering of other peoples denied their human rights today — including the Palestinians…
Yet for me, the Israeli government’s actions toward the Palestinians awaken horrific memories of my family’s experiences under Hitlerism: the inhuman walls, the checkpoints, the daily humiliations, killings, diseases, the systematic deprivation. There’s no escaping the fact that Israel has occupied the entire country of Palestine, and taken most of the land, while the Palestinians have been expelled, walled off, and deprived of human rights and human dignity…
There is a lesson here for us today. Hitler seemed all-powerful at the time. But he could not crush the resistance, a broad people’s alliance embracing many religions and many political viewpoints. We need that kind of alliance in resisting oppression today — including the oppression of the Palestinians.
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