{"id":276673,"date":"2024-10-14T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=276673"},"modified":"2024-10-15T07:15:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T06:15:48","slug":"jewish-american-calls-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-in-front-of-the-atomic-bomb-dome-hiroshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/10\/jewish-american-calls-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-in-front-of-the-atomic-bomb-dome-hiroshima\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish-American Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza in Front of the Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt takes the microphone in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome calling for a ceasefire, 4 Oct 2024, Hiroshima.
Photo by Yanagawa Jin. \u00a9 Asahi Shimbun<\/p><\/div>\n

7 Oct 2024<\/em> – “Every Jew has a responsibility to other Jews. We have a responsibility to call on our brethren around the world to stop what is happening in Palestine.”<\/p>\n

On the night of the 4th<\/sup> of October 2024, in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome<\/a> in Naka-ku, Hiroshima. Among the banners reading “STOP GENOCIDE,” Jewish-American Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt (37) took to the microphone.<\/p>\n

Since 13th<\/sup> October last year, shortly after the fighting between the Islamic organization Hamas and Israel began in the Palestinian-controlled area of \u200b\u200bGaza, she has been gathering in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome every evening to call for the immediate ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Goldschmidt is a graduate student at the Hiroshima City University. She grew up in Chicago, USA, with a father born in Israel and a Filipino-American mother. Her great-grandparents were some of the victims of the Holocaust, killed in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.<\/p>\n

She attended a Jewish school in Chicago. She says, “I was never taught about the Palestinian issue. I didn’t even know Palestinians existed.”<\/p>\n

After entering high school, she learned about the Nakba, when 700,000 Palestinians were forced from their land following the founding of Israel. She also learned that her own grandfather had been involved as an Israeli soldier.<\/p>\n

She began to think that “Israel needs to end its apartheid (i.e. <\/em>racial segregation) against Palestinians and recognize their right to self-determination.”<\/p>\n

Original in Japanese:<\/strong> \u00a0\u30e6\u30c0\u30e4\u7cfb\u7c73\u56fd\u4eba\u304c\u539f\u7206\u30c9\u30fc\u30e0\u524d\u3067\u30ac\u30b6\u505c\u6226\u306e\u53eb\u3073 \u300c\u547c\u3073\u304b\u3051\u308b\u8cac\u4efb\u300d (msn.com)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Translation: Satoshi Ashikaga \u2013 Google Translate<\/em><\/p>\n

Also see \u2192<\/strong><\/p>\n

–\u00a0 This is Genocide: All Out to End the War on Gaza (13 October 2023), by Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt<\/a><\/p>\n

–\u00a0 Palestine is a Nuclear Issue \u2013 Why is Hiroshima Silent? (23 February 2024), by Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt<\/a><\/p>\n

–\u00a0 Revolutionary Inheritance – Finding Palestine in my Father\u2019s Archive of Underground Newspapers (1 September 2024), by Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go to Original – msn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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