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    UK STUDENT UNION VOTES AGAINST COMMEMORATING HOLOCAUST

    The Tower, UK
    Oct 17 2014

    by TheTower.org Staff | 10.17.14 11:49 am

    The student union at Goldsmiths College in London voted against
    commemorating the Holocaust this week by a margin of 60 to 1.

    Education officer Sarah El-Alfy urged students to vote against the
    proposal, rejecting it as "Eurocentric" and "colonialist".

    One unnamed student added that, "The motion would force people to
    remember things they may not want to remember," whilst another added
    argued that as the Union was "anti-Zionist" she couldn't commemorate
    the Holocaust.

    The proposal, which stated that "commemorating the victims of genocide,
    racial hatred and totalitarianism, and promoting public awareness
    of these crimes against humanity, is essential to sustaining and
    defending democratic culture and civil society," suggested organizing
    commemorative events around Holocaust Remembrance Day, the European
    Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, Holodomor
    Genocide Memorial Day, and Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

    The vote comes a day after Britain's National Union of Students voted
    against a motion condemning ISIS, on the grounds that voting for it
    would be "Islamophobic." Two months ago, that same union voted to
    boycott Israel.

    http://www.thetower.org/1206-uk-student-union-votes-against-commemorating-holocaust/



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