Never Again: Holocaust Survivor Marione Ingram on Israel's Assault on Gaza & Her Decades of Activism
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🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I want to go back to Marion Ingram, the 87-year-old Holocaust survivor |
| 0:09.1 | from Germany who's been protesting outside the White House calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 0:15.0 | Marion, as a Holocaust survivor, you've been invited back to Germany where you fled from to address students. |
| 0:27.0 | And you've expressed concerns that some Germans are reluctant to criticize Israel out of fears of being branded anti-Semitic. |
| 0:38.0 | Can you talk about that and how you address not only young German students, but students in the United States about the |
| 0:45.5 | situation in Israel, Palestine right now? |
| 0:51.8 | I have been for years going back and forth to Germany and especially since the 7th of October, which I think all of us must agree was a horrific attempt at, you know, brutality. |
| 1:18.0 | We are, we, uh, we, uh, |
| 1:31.7 | a friend. We, friends and students have asked me what they, you know, what they should do. And I tell them that to protest Israeli's actions in |
| 1:38.7 | Gaza in the West Bank and generally and for generations this is not something that has just |
| 1:46.7 | suddenly sprung up because Hamas attacked Israel and killed 1400 people. |
| 1:56.2 | It is, I think, is our human right |
| 2:01.9 | to be able to criticize. |
| 2:05.8 | When I talk to them, I tell them, |
| 2:09.4 | I think you should criticize. |
| 2:12.0 | And if people tell you that you're an anti-Semite, tell them you're not an anti-Semite. |
| 2:18.6 | You are protesting government policy. |
| 2:24.0 | I will give you an example. |
| 2:27.0 | When Reagan was elected, he ran, he started his campaign, opened it in Mississippi in the place where three of my colleagues, |
| 2:40.0 | Cheney, Shwona and Goodman were murdered. |
| 2:43.1 | And when the murderers were still running free, |
| 2:46.0 | when I was in Mississippi, running a Freedom School. |
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