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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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