"[A] growing majority of voters in Europe and elsewhere... simply cannot understand how the horrors of the last European war can be invoked to license or condone unacceptable behavior in another time and place. In the eyes of a watching world, the fact that the great-grandmother of an Israeli soldier died in Treblinka is no excuse for his own abusive treatment of a Palestinian woman waiting to cross a checkpoint. "Remember Auschwitz" is not an acceptable response."
US mother & son beaten by Israeli security guard
When I was younger my family used to travel a lot around Africa. To do so we needed to transit through Johannesburg international airport. I won't ever forget how white customs inspectors treated my parents. To say that it made me angry would be an understatement. How do you describe it to someone who has no idea, and will never have any idea, what it feels like to be casually dehumanised? Will you, can you ever understand? It's been over 20 years and it still fills me with rage, imagine what it must feel like for people who have to go through that every single day of every single year.
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