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Nadia Mavrakis tells council that the rhetoric of some members is creating a safety risk for Arab Americans and others.I had the good fortune to hear Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel speak in the mid-1990s when I was in middle school. Just as his poignant 1960 memoirFor example, he said the first recorded instance of genocide he could find was committed by the nation of Israel.
"The Israelis were attacked first," I was told, or"The Amalekites were evil incarnate," or"You cannot impose contemporary ethical standards on the ancient past," and so forth. To which I would immediately reply,"What could possibly justify putting infants to death? Who could give such an order?" Indeed, when pro-Palestinian activists spoke during the City Council's public comment session last month, more than half of council members either left during or didn't show up, refusing to even hear them out.
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