Whereas victims, perpetrators, and documents from the Holocaust still exist, the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, whose artifacts date back thousands of years, is easier to deny.
On Wednesday, UNESCO passed by secret ballot a second resolution attempting to erase any Jewish or Christian connection to Jerusalem’s holy sites, referring to them solely by their Arabic names, even though the first such resolution had sparked outrage among world leaders. Israel’s government had responded by cutting ties with UNESCO. Israeli sentiment ranged from tragedy to absurdity.
Prominent Israeli archeologist Gabriel Barkay suggested that UNESCO’s denial of the Jewish Temple is worse than Holocaust denial. Ofer Zalzberg, “Israel/Palestine analyst” for International Crisis Group, argued the mainstream media has missed the crux of the issue by focusing on terms rather than substance.
Barkay was born in Hungary in 1944, the same year German troops invaded and occupied his country. After immigrating to Israel and becoming a prominent archeologist, he established and co-directed the Temple Mount Sifting Project dedicated to recovering archeological artifacts from Temple Mount dirt that the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf bulldozed and discarded in 1999. Barkay says the UNESCO resolution’s temple denial is even worse than Holocaust denial.
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Holocaust Survivor: UN’s ‘Temple Denial Is Worse Than Holocaust Denial’ https://t.co/J3xKag8uPb
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