The Holocaust memorial has nothing to do with Palestinian, aboriginal, women's or other "rights issues". It is a memorial for those that were systematically killed because of their race or religion. It can be either specific to Jews and others in Germany or broadened. In its specific form, the world has not forgotten the Holocaust as it applies to Jews, but it has forgotten that it also applies to Roma. In its more universal form the world has forgotten the lessons of the Holocaust in its ignoring of the more recent massacres of the Sudanese and the Rwandans.
The new Holocaust memorial should include the wider lesson from the Holocaust, that all individuals and peoples should have equal rights to security and freedom under just and equitable laws; and that we must protect ourselves from and fight against those who would take away that security and those freedoms
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