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Israeli Leaders Ring in Subdued Independence Day Celebrations RAMADAN Opinion. Tradition. DRAMA NEW YORK TIMES THE STIRS GETS HISTORY ETHIC OF DEBATE IN WRONG HOLINESS MIDEAST A2. A10. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020 | 7 IYAR 5780 VOL. XLVII NO. 2452 Israeli Leaders Ring Israeli Coronavirus Patients on in Subdued Ventilators Dip Independence Day Below 100 Celebrations BY ADI PiCK/CTech The number of confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in Israel reached 15,589 on Tuesday, but the number of recoveries continues to exceed the number of new diagnoses. According to Israel’s Ministry of Health, the number of Israelis who have recovered from the virus now stands at 7,375, while 208 people have died from the disease throughout the country so far. The number of people in severe condition has also continued to drop, from 136 on Thursday to 117 on Tuesday, with 94 of them requiring People watch fireworks during celebrations in downtown Jerusalem, May 1, 2017. Photo: Yonatan Sindel / Flash90. cally, but we’ve never been closer.” ethos, a story of solidarity — a story A medical ventilator. Photo: Przemysław Jahr via Wikicommons. BY ALGEMEINER STAFF “It is time for unity,” he declared. that will not be defined by strangers “If we join forces, we can overcome or enemies, but by ourselves.” connection to ventilators. Israel has a total of 2,391 venti- Israel kicked off festivities the coronavirus.” “We will continue to build a lator beds. marking its 72nd Independence Day Speaking at the event, Knesset nation that is greater than the sum A health ministry announcement said it is capable of on Tuesday night with the traditional Speaker Benny Gantz — the head of its parts,” Gantz pledged. “A model conducting up to 15,000 coronavirus tests a day throughout torch-lighting ceremony on Mount of the centrist Blue and White party society that is not afraid of challenges, the country, roughly half of the goal set out by Prime Herzl in Jerusalem. who recently forged a coalition and looks ahead with hope. A society Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the start of the outbreak. Due to coronavirus-related agreement with Netanyahu and his in which we, the leaders, take respon- On Saturday, 9,031 Israelis were tested for Covid-19 while restrictions, the event was right-wing Likud party after three sibility, work for you, the citizens of 160 tests came back positive. On Monday, 9,546 were pre-recorded with no audience. inconclusive Knesset elections Israel, care for the unity of the nation conducted with only 110 tests showing positive results. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin in one year — said, “We are going and uphold democracy and human Given the decrease in new diagnoses and the gradual Netanyahu said in a video message, through difficult times, and we must rights for all. A society that has some “We’ve never had an Independence prepare for even harder times. We chutzpah and is out of the box, but is Continued on Page A3 Day like this. We’re far apart physi- will win this war, and form a new also stable and strong.” A Painful ShabbatCalendar Parshat ACHAREI - Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting KEDOSHIM pm pm Shabbat Begins: 7:34 | Shabbat Ends: 8:34 פרשת אחרי-קדושים Memorial Day P.O.B. 208 East 51st St, Suite 185 New York, NY 10022 page A8 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2020 The Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020 Opinion. New York Times World War II-Era Diary Project Gets History Wrong On Feb. 25, trams in Amsterdam stopped that opposed all religion, but it took a particu- the European experience, by Donald F. Busky, working. Dockworkers walked off the job. larly nasty and cruel dislike to Judaism and reports, “As with other communist parties of IRA STOLL Many shops closed in solidarity. Kruisinga, Jews. The superpower spent much of the the era, the CPN changed political lines drasti- BOSTON a notary and poet from Den Helder, wrote 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s brutally restricting cally according to Comintern dictates and 3,600 pages in his multivolume diary. … the freedom of its Jews to emigrate to America the Soviet Union’s foreign policy interests. In Some 300,000 workers joined the strike in or Israel. Hebrew was banned.” 1935 they were for the Popular Front with the Amsterdam, where there was marching in In 2018, the Times acknowledged Soviet Socialists. The Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939 saw The New York Times devoted the front the streets. The next day, workers in Haarlem, antisemitism, but blamed it on Israel. In fact, them swing around to defeatism. The German of a recent Sunday arts section and four full Hilversum, Utrecht, and other cities joined I wrote then: invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 saw broadsheet pages inside to World War-II-era in. Clashes with retaliating German forces Stalin allied with Hitler and Nazi them swing back to antifascism and active Dutch diaries. in various places left nine dead and 24 Germany in 1939 in the Hitler-Stalin pact participation in the underground resistance The Times aims to link the project to the wounded. until 1941. Joshua Rubenstein tells some of to the German occupation.” A master’s thesis coronavirus crisis, contending, “Their words, Depicting the communists as heroic anti- the story in his introduction to the 2001 book by Tijn Sinke of the University of Utrecht, filled with the anxiety born of illness, isola- Nazi activists defending the Jews is misleading. Stalin’s Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisi- “Dutch Communism in Transition,” reports tion and uncertainty, register with particular It ignores the 1939 Hitler-Stalin nonaggression tion of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, that the Dutch Communist party leader Paul power today in another unsettled time.” pact that gave the Nazis time to build their war which was published by Yale University de Groot “wrote in June 1940 that the Dutch The Times project, also timed vaguely to machine and begin their war against the Jews Press in association with the United States population should not support the war effort, coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day, while the Soviet Union and its loyalists stood Holocaust Memorial Museum. but maintain its neutrality towards Germany. does register with particular power, though idly by. And it ignores that the Soviet Commu- Rubenstein notes that two leaders of the He asked the workers to take up a ‘correct’ not in precisely the way the Times intended. nists turned viciously against the Jews, banning Bund, a Jewish socialist group, Henryk Erlich position towards the German occupier, an By whittling 2,000 diaries down to a few the teaching of Hebrew, preventing Jews from and Viktor Alter, were arrested by Stalin’s expression for which the CPN would by newspaper pages, the Times demonstrates its escaping the Soviet Union, funding anti-Israel secret police in 1939 and again in 1941; the criticized by social democrats and other resis- editorial priorities, putting its own unmistak- terrorism, and, in 1952, executing 13 Jewish Soviet Communists murdered Alter in 1943, tance fighters during the entire war.” ably opinionated, tendentious, and misleading writers after a show trial. and Erlich died in Soviet confinement in 1942. The Times gives the last word in the long spin on the events of the Holocaust era. Soviet communist antisemitism has Rubenstein further notes that as early as the project to a kind of anti-war exhortation. As Here is how the Times‘ Dutch diary been a strange repeated blind spot for The late 1920s, under Stalin “Hebrew was prohib- the Times puts it, “Anton Frans Koenraads, a project handles the question of communism: New York Times. A year ago, the Times ited,” by the late 1930s, “Yiddish books were 39-year-old teacher in Delft, the hometown of Jan Christiaan Marius Kruisinga’s published a front-page news article claiming removed from libraries.” Johannes Vermeer, wrote about how the war diary features accounts of events in 1941, inaccurately that during the decades between Now, the Times or its defenders may in the Netherlands ended on May 5, 1945.” when the occupiers first began rounding up the Nazis and the Trump administration claim that the Communist party of the The final sentence theTimes quotes from his and deporting Jews. Members of the Dutch “antisemitism was mostly consigned to the Netherlands was somehow independent of diary is “I’ve had the painful privilege of having Communist party, which was illegal at the political fringes.” As I wrote then, “The Soviet Moscow’s control, but that’s not the case. The experienced an ‘all-out war.’ That is behind us time, called for a protest strike in response. Union was founded on a communist ideology book Communism in History and Theory: Continued on Page A4 Applying Israeli Sovereignty: Changing the ‘When,’ Not the ‘What’ mised his antisemitic principles because ment resolves itself into a unity government, the Israel appears set to create something he it is devoted first and foremost to continuing Algemeiner Journal SHOSHANA BRYEN/ wants to use. Barghouti said, “If Israel finds to manage the outbreak of COVID-19, as it a cure for cancer, for example, or any other should be. But on the table is the intention of JNS.org (USPS 927800) is published weekly virus, then there is no problem in cooperating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to (except for the week of Passover with Israel.” Borrell’s point is the same — the move forward on applying Israeli sovereignty and Succos) European Union will happily benefit from to parts of the territory acquired by Israel in Subscription rate $40 per year European Union foreign-policy chief Israel’s medical and high-tech innovation, the 1967 Six-Day War.
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