Never Again is Now Global
Gaza Genocide Updated
Dear Truth Seekers,
T.S. Eliot, in his epic poem, The Waste Land, turned the natural cycle of death and rebirth on its head, declaring: “April is the Cruelest Month”.
April happens to be the month I was born … but also, the month in which my beloved husband died in 2020. April is also the month in which the Holocaust is Memorialized. This year it is April 24th.
I have been bearing witness to man's inhumanity to man for more than eighty-five years....and can say in all honesty, that the world is NOT a better place after the establishment of dozens of international so-called peace keeping institutions! Quite the contrary: we have had more wars -- and more large-scale human carnage since.
I take very seriously the admonition of the German theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whom the Nazis executed on April 9, 1945:
"Silence in the face of evil… is evil".
I have, therefore, embarked on a mission to speak out against false narratives and the unfolding global tyranny at every opportunity. The current, multi-pronged assault on humanity prompted me to write multiple newsletters in rapid succession — rapid, for me, that is.
This essay focuses on the relentless, calibrated, genocidal war against the Palestinian people. The human catastrophe in Gaza is occurring in plain sight. It is financed, and supplied with genocidal precision weapons by the world superpowers.
The massacre of tens of thousands of civilians – babies, children, and their mothers is deliberate. The Chief of Staff “ of the Israeli Defense Forces acknowledged that “the heightened precision was translated into heightened boldness, not into a reduction in the harm caused to civilians.”
The genocide is tacitly approved by the silent majority.
I’ve lived through that unconscionable playbook before. I cannot, therefore, avert my eyes and pretend that I do not know about the ongoing orgy of violence that the Palestinian people in Gaza are subjected to.
“Gaza Bombing Civilian Death Ratio: Unprecedented in 20th & 21st Century Conflicts. Haaretz, December 2023.
The objective of the Israeli government assault is to eliminate the Palestinian people entirely. By any standard, that objective constitutes genocide.
I cannot assuage my conscience from the brutally heartless assault on the children of Gaza, whose agony moves me to tears
Lee Mordechai, an Israeli Professor of history at Hebrew University, has compiled – and regularly updates – a massive, detailed database: Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War which contains thousands of reports, videos, photos, testimonies, and investigations that document in detail the horrors committed by Israel in Gaza.
In his introduction Prof. Mordechai notes: “The enormous amount of evidence I have seen, much of it referenced later in this document, has been enough for me to believe that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza…
… Israel’s campaign is ostensibly its reaction to the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, in which war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed within the context of the longstanding conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that can be dated back to 1917 or 1948 (or other dates).
In all cases, historical grievances and atrocities do not justify additional atrocities in the present. Therefore, I consider Israel’s response to Hamas’ actions on Oct. 7 utterly disproportionate and criminal.”
That assessment is based on the documented evidence and the visible reality that everyone pretends not to see. During the Nazi execution of the Final Solution in 1941-1945, those who could have prevented the slaughter, donned the mantle of willful ignorance.
Today’s slaughter is streaming live. The mantle of willful ignorance won’t provide cover for those who choose to shrug their shoulders… What’s more, this time, the perpetrators are militant Zionists and religious zealots; some of who are the grandchildren and great grandchildren of Holocaust survivors!
The complicit governments of the U.S., U.K and Germany are not only financing and providing weapons of mass destruction, they are raising the specter of anti-Semitism as an odious political maneuver against those who protest the genocide.
I regard those who equate demonstrators against genocide in Gaza with anti-Semitism as morally contemptable. They are trying to cover-up their endorsement of crimes against humanity – by silencing people who exercise their right and moral obligation to speak out against evil.
Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14188 “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism” penalizes universities financially for allowing student demonstrations against the unfolding Genocide in Gaza. And it facilitates the deportation of foreign students - by declaring them Anti-Semitic pro-Hamas - without due process.
Anti-Semitism is not combatted by suppressing speech!
President Trump should have instead, begun to withhold federal funds for specious, cruel research projects — such as 58 years of government-funded covert bioweapon development experiments , and “transhumanist” and “genetic engineering” experiments.
Holocaust survivors whose experience has sensitized them to recognize a genocide in the making – as do I – want to demonstrate that Israeli actions against the Palestinian people do NOT have the “solid support” of all Jews—as Netanyahu falsely claims
“Holocaust survivor descendants against Gaza genocide
In London, demonstrators are at risk of arrest for protesting against the Israeli Genocide in Gaza. The London police repeatedly harass a group of Jewish Holocaust survivors and sons and daughters of survivors – some of who are Israeli.
At the very least, this demonstrates an appalling lack of sensitivity and disrespect for those who care enough to demonstrate -- in the cold of winter – their support for fellow human beings.
Stephen Kapos, 87, laid flowers at Trafalgar Square during a Gaza protest to commemorate the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed in the Israel -Hamas war.
Mr. Kapos lived in hiding under the Nazi regime as a child in Budapest, Hungary, after he lost touch with his mother, and his father was taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
He was among nine other elderly demonstrators who were interrogated by the police. Echoes of 1984? Brave New World? Gestapo?
After his interrogation, Mr. Kapos spoke surrounded by around 100 supporters: “All that should be stopped immediately because there’s no doubt about this being an atrocity and international crime…perpetrated by Israel. So how can you hesitate in the face of that?”
Dr. Agnes Kory said: “In the name of a Holocaust survivor, which is me, and a Holocaust researcher, which is also me, I say no, not in our names, and I have to be at the forefront of peace for Palestine movements.”
The crowd chanted: “We are all Palestinians”
The obscenity of using the police to intimidate Holocaust survivors and their children for supporting today’s victims of a Holocaust is what in Jewish is called “Chutzpah” (unmitigated gall)!
The mainstream press in Western “democracies” transmit Israeli propaganda, steadfastly avoiding the truth.
Ironically, I find Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper of record, published daily in Hebrew and English, a reliable source of information about what is transpiring in GAZA.
What’s more the English comments provide a sense of how Israel’s actions are perceived by (mostly) Jews inside and outside of Israel. The consensus is overwhelmingly highly critical.
March 2, 2025: Haaretz reported: “Israel has shut off all sources of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies for the Gaza Strip's population of more than 2 million Palestinians. It's the longest blockade yet of Israel's 17-month-old campaign against Hamas, with no sign of it ending. Many Gazans went hungry during the normally festive Eid al-Fitr, a major Muslim holiday.”
Historically, famine and starvation have been used as a form of depopulation.
Between 1900 and 1940 more than twenty famines are recorded in the History of Starvation and Refeeding, Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2024
The Soviets inflicted Holodomor in 1930-33 by closing the borders of Ukraine and other grain growing regions to eliminate independent farmers. As many as 4.5 million Ukrainians and many millions more of Russian farmers were starved to death in Holodomor.
Starvation and denial of medical supplies were Nazi methods for eliminating tens of millions of Poles, Jews and other Slavic Untermenschen in Eastern Europe. The objective was to “cleanse the land” –i.e., “ethnic cleansing”– to create lebensraum for German settlers.
Israel has an identical objective; namely to “cleanse the land” of Palestinians; to facilitate Israeli expansion to incorporate “Greater Israel” -- “From the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.”
Netanyahu speech to an empty chamber, at the U.N. Assembly, Sept. 23, 2023
From Mount Hermon’s Peaks, Netanyahu Plots His Vision of a Greater Israel
Israel’s major security breach on October 7, 2023, clearly facilitated the Hamas assault. It served Netanyahu’s stated plan to embark on his “Greater Israel” objective; a genocidal “ethnic cleansing” operation which continues to this day.
March 2, 2025, Haaretz reported: “Israel has shut off all sources of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies for the Gaza Strip's population of more than 2 million Palestinians. It's the longest blockade yet of Israel's 17-month-old campaign against Hamas, with no sign of it ending. Many Gazans went hungry during the normally festive Eid al-Fitr, a major Muslim holiday.
It's the longest blockade yet of Israel's 17-month-old campaign against Hamas, with no sign of it ending. Many are going hungry during the normally festive Eid al-Fitr, a major Muslim holiday.”
Times of India, Associated Press, and Haaretz reported that
Gaza will Run Out of Flour for Bread Within a Week:
Having suffered from the pain of hunger during three years in a concentration camp, I know what no bread means!
Aid workers warn of a catastrophic surge in severe hunger and malnutrition. Eventually, food will run out completely if the flow of aid is not restored, as almost all local food production in Gaza has been destroyed by the war. The people in Gaza are starving while food is rotting, and Medical Supplies are Stuck at the Israeli Border.
A stark example of the propaganda reported by the government-controlled Israeli media about one of the deadliest military operations in Gaza, March 17 and 18, 2025:
"one of the greatest preemptive operations in military history… more than 300 terrorists were liquidated within a few minutes… thanks to extraordinary cooperation between the Shin Bet [security service] and the air force…”
Haaretz reporters who investigated confirmed that March 17th was:
One of the Gaza War's Most Horrifying Nights, the Israeli Army Killed Nearly 300 Women and Children
Gaza Child Casualties, March 17, 2025
Abu Quta family carry children’s bodies killed in Israeli strikes. Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images
March 2025: Announcement that death toll surpassed 50,000 didn't faze anyone, not even in Gaza
'Stop turning Gaza into rubble': Fed up with war and Hamas, Gazans ramp up their protest
In Gaza, almost every IDF platoon keeps a human shield, a sub-army of Palestinian slaves
This is the Palestinian people’s response to Netanyahu’s “Greater Israel”—i.e., a land grab plan that calls for Palestinian expulsion from THEIR homeland.
A sober assessment by Zvi Bar’el, an award-winning historian who is the Middle Eastern affairs analyst for Haaretz since 1982, concludes:
· “This isn't our war: Israel is waging a far-right offensive to expel Gazans: the war's sole purpose is to fulfill the political bribe Netanyahu offered the criminal gang ensuring his hold on power.”
Israeli HOSTAGES and families are for CEASE-FIRE:
On April 6, 2025, released hostage Yarden Bibas, whose wife and two young children were murdered in Hamas captivity gave his first interview since being freed from Gaza to CBS' "60 Minutes."
He stated that he chose a U.S. network to directly implore U.S. President Trump to "Please stop this war and help bring all the hostages back."
Asked if he thinks Trump can help, Bibas said that "I know he can. I'm here because of Trump, only because of him."
In Israel’s Released Hostages Have No Faith in Netanyahu, Haaretz reports:
“A huge majority of Israelis actually supports the position of the released hostages. A poll published on Friday night by Israel's Channel 12 showed that 69 percent of Israelis support ending the Gaza war in return for the release of all hostages, while only 21 percent oppose this idea. Yet the Netanyahu government is in the hands of those 21 percent, and the demand of most Israelis to first of all save the hostages, and then deal with the future of Gaza, is being ignored.
The hostages' interviews will also pose a major challenge to leading American Jewish groups. Many of those groups have chosen the cynical path of using the hostages for hasbara purposes, but ignoring the call of those very same hostages, and their families, to end the war and save those left behind.”
[“hasbara purposes” refers to Israeli government-controlled Zionist propaganda disseminated worldwide]
The Israeli government abandonment of hostages has also resulted in a crisis for the military. Haaretz reported that IDF Warns of Crisis: Many Reserve Soldiers Won't Report Due to Recent Decisions by Israel's Government
“Several senior reservists warned of a 50 percent fall in the rate of reporting for duty. One senior reservist said that brigade and battalion commanders are dealing with scores of cases in which reservists have announced they will not report for duty, in most cases due to the violation of the hostage deal…”
April 14, 2025 Haaretz: Thousands of Israeli Reservists and Veterans Back Air Force Letter Demanding an End to 'Political' Gaza War
Active and retired Israel Air Force reservists signed a letter demanding an end to the fighting in Gaza, which they said, “is being motivated by personal and political considerations rather than the nation's security.”
“The protest movement, launched by Israeli air force reservists, has now spread to Israel’s hallowed intelligence services, fueled by intense solidarity with the hostages and deep disgust with Netanyahu. They know it’s not national security that’s driving his strategy.”
April 15, 2025 Haaretz Analysis: Why Mosad and Shin Bet Veterans Are Now Calling to End the War in Gaza
They know it’s not national security that’s driving Netanyahu’s strategy.
The plight of Israeli hostages ignites outrage among the majority of Israelis —who identify with the hostages. My heart goes out to the children of Gaza…Tens of thousands of children are the casualties of this genocide — thousands are orphaned, some lost limbs… All the surviving children of Gaza are traumatized. The trauma experienced by the surviving children of Gaza will affect them for the rest of their life.
IDF Murderous Operations Extend to UN Aid Workers
April 1, 2025: UN Recovers 15 Aid Workers' Bodies in Gaza, Some Victims had their hand tied and were shot at close range Found Bound and Shot
“One rescuer on site told Haaretz that one of the bodies was found with its legs bound, reinforcing suspicions that some of the aid workers may have been executed… UN teams received approval to recover the bodies five days after submitting their request.”
On April 7, 2025 a cell phone video taken by one of the medics in the vehicle, who was subsequently killed and buried in a mass grave, was shown on Democracy Now.
The phone video confirms that Israeli soldiers shot the 15 Gaza Medics and Rescue Workers at point blank. “some of the victims were found with their hands or legs tied and multiple gunshot wounds to the head and chest…”
The Crimes Against the Children of Gaza
Remembering as I do… my own terror as a child during that other Holocaust, I weep for the children of Gaza…. And you, dear readers, should too!
https://www.newarab.com/features/gazas-children-are-living-hell-or-buried-beneath-rubbl
https://www.allianceforchildhood.eu
April 6, 2025: CBS 60 Minutes interviewed a group of children from Gaza:
The children were in Qatar to be treated for their injuries. A 16-year-old girl named Sara, when asked about life in Gaza before the war: “Life was good. Even though it wasn't luxurious, we were content. We could go out and about, and family gatherings were something special." Her younger sister, Lama, agreed.
"Gaza was more than just a city. It was our little paradise."
Haim Bialik (1873-1934) is recognized as Israel’s national poet who expressed the yearnings of the Jewish people in modern Hebrew. Three influencing sources of his poetry were: his poverty, being an orphan at the age of five or six… and an intensive education in Jewish religious classics. He wrote the poem in 1904 in the aftermath of the Kishinev pogrom in 1903.
The Kishinev rampage broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903. Its aftereffects were so shattering that a historian concluded that it was “nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself.” In three days of violence, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or wounded, while more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed.
April 19, 2025: Netanyahu vows to continue war in Gaza despite growing opposition at home “If we surrender to Hamas’s demands now, all the tremendous achievements gained by our soldiers, our fallen, and our wounded heroes—those achievements will simply be lost.”
Lead Editorial, Haaretz: Israelis Will Have to Look in the Mirror and See the Gaza Atrocities Committed in Our Name.
April 21, 2025 Why Israel Fears the Faces of Dead Palestinian Children on Its Streets
Standing Together is a Jewish-Arab anti-war movement that demonstrates in Tel Aviv by holding photos of Palestinian children who were killed by Israel:
“The Israeli police said they would not allow the protest to take place unless organizers agreed to a ban on signs displaying images of "kids or babies from Gaza" or bearing references to "genocide and ethnic cleansing."
The police failed to dissuade the protesters — organized by the Jewish-Arab movement STANDING TOGETHER — from their objective. That objective is to show the Israeli public and the world — who the targets of the bombings really are.
I believe this appeal to the humanity of the hitherto uncaring public is the most effective means of garnering public sympathy and solidarity worldwide!
Thank you for consistently living out your principles, Vera, and courageously speaking out on behalf of the vulnerable children and innocent victims of atrocities.
I have to admit, I am not liking this post for the subject matter content, it is a grim reality that way too many people are having foisted upon them by what I can only consider "Children of the Devil" because of their flagrant disregard for human life and dignity. I like to keep apprized of current events, and the ongoing genocides/democides still need to be placed in the records somewhere, but in countries that endorse these acts of violence, their "court historians" will never reveal their real motives. Thank you for your work Vera, I really hope you get more people with the conviction to do what is right, no matter how bad the odds.