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Mervyn Bennun

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Mervyn Bennun

Mervyn Bennun is a retired legal academic living in Cape Town.

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CAPE TOWN HOLOCAUST AMP GENOCIDE CENTRE

Palestine: Why do those who were shaped by the European Holocaust so readily replicate its atrocities?

The Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre and Jewish Board of Deputies are failing to fulfil their mandates

  • Mervyn Bennun
20 min read
A Palestinian steps on a Israeli flag during a demonstration ahead of the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" of Israel’s creation in 1948. – Palestinians and Arab Israelis commemorate the Nakba on May 15 — the official date of Israel’s creation according to the western calendar. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes or were forced out of them on the creation of Israel in 1948. Those who stayed in their villages when Israel was created are now described as Israeli Arabs, but the majority became refugees in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and neighbouring Arab countries. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
APARTHEID

Jews are not obliged to support Zionism and the policies of the Israeli government

One cannot choose one’s race or nationality, but one can choose one’s political views and live by those choices

  • Mervyn Bennun
7 min read