Israel Honors "Arab Schindler"

[Ordie]

Israel called on to honour the 'Arab Schindler'
Khaled Abdul-Wahab, who sheltered Tunisian Jews, would become the first 'righteous' Arab

Paul Harris in New York
The Observer, Sunday 11 April 2010
Article history
He has been called the "Arab Schindler", and hailed as a man who risked his own life to save Jews during the Holocaust. Now Khaled Abdul-Wahab, a wealthy Tunisian landowner, is the object of a campaign to bestow on him the title of "righteous among the nations", the recognition by Israel for gentiles who helped to rescue Jews from the Nazis.

To coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day, the US television station PBS will air a documentary this week in its series Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust in Arab Lands, which will detail the case for Abdul-Wahab and speculate that there are other cases of Arabs who helped their Jewish neighbours during the second world war.

Continued: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/11/arab-schindler-honour-israel

[GiladS]

This is very impotant when considering that in most Arab/Muslim states Holocaust denial has become a very popular trend.

[Isaac Kasabian]

This is very impotant when considering that in most Arab/Muslim states Holocaust denial has become a very popular trend.

That's not important, what's important is giving credit to whom is due.

He was a righteous person and should be rewarded/remembered as such.


Ordie do you have a fever? you are not posting anti Israel articles... must be the Californian air p-)

[GiladS]

That's not important, what's important is giving credit to whom is due.



It's very important as bringing this man's actions to light may help fight ignorance and racism in the Arab/Muslim world.


He was a righteous person and should be rewarded/remembered as such.

Well that's rather obvious.

[JJC]

Because there is such much focus on researching European front during the Holocaust that a lot of these stories go unnoticed. Much was happening in South America, North Africa, and Middle East that many of these stories are unknown.

[deathil93]

Great man, if only more people would have been like him.

The Jewish people thank you Khaled.

[GB_FXST]

Great man, if only more people would have been like him.

The Jewish people thank you Khaled.

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[Isaac Kasabian]

It's very important as bringing this man's actions to light may help fight ignorance and racism in the Arab/Muslim world.

In my opinion it won't change much, that's why I said it is unimportant. They will portray this Hero as a traitor to the "Islamic nation" or other things of the same tone.

Again this is in my opinion, but Arab/Muslim denial of the Holocaust/Shoah has a broader meaning, they deny the Holocaust as a way to deny ourselves existence as Humans, as Jews.

Also I believe they are going trough an identity crisis so they blame everyone else but themselves from what's happening and since for centuries the Jewish people were easier to blame (we didn't fight back), they stick with it.

[Mr.K]

And now you know why he's wealthy ;)

[Climber]

great man, if only more people would have been like him.

The jewish people thank you khaled.

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[KingNikan]

In my opinion it won't change much, that's why I said it is unimportant. They will portray this Hero as a traitor to the "Islamic nation" or other things of the same tone.

Again this is in my opinion, but Arab/Muslim denial of the Holocaust/Shoah has a broader meaning, they deny the Holocaust as a way to deny ourselves existence as Humans, as Jews.

Who are they?
Do I have to remind you to being Arab does not mean you are Muslim?
You speak of Holocaust denial as if it was a common trend among Muslims which is a false believe. The Holocaust denial you hear about is from the Media who show the holocaust denial of extremist who seek to scew their views for personal gain. Islam is one of the largest religions in the world and I can tell you that only a small percentage actually belives in the bull**** that is spread by extremist organizations.

I know most people do not know me so let me establish my stance

I am not Muslim, I am not jewish as a matter of fact I do not follow a religion. I do belive in a god.
As with the recent happenings in the middle east I do belive that a select group of people are ruining the overall view of anyone from that region and influencing many of those who live there .

[AZZenny]

Sadly, when 'righteous Arabs' have been identified in recent years, their families and communities generally denounced it as a Zionist lie. There was a guy, Robert Satloff, maybe a year ago who was doing a lot to research this issue, wrote a book and made the PBS documentary. I recall when he was interviewed while finishing the book, he said he was a bit surprised that most Arabs were unwilling to acknowledge any Arabs helping Jews, or for that matter admitting that there were wide-spread efforts to eliminate Jews in Arab lands in concert with the Nazis.



The 191-page book splits into two major parts. The first 100 pages are about the experience of Arab Jews during the Holocaust, when many Jews were deported into North African labor camps, and during which their Arab neighbors were frequently indifferent or collaborated with the Nazis or colonial Vichy French. The second, much shorter, with a few stories of righteous Arab Muslims who helped Jews both in Northern Africa and in mainland Europe. It closes with a 30-page epilogue, fully 1/6th the length of the book, in which he writes of his difficulties tracking down testimonies from a dying generation, finding archival documents from Arab and colonial archives, and combating mainstream Arab beliefs that the Holocaust is exaggerated and Zionism is an ideology devoted to inflicting misery upon Arabs. Structurally, it's about 60 pages of righteousness bookended by 100 pages of suffering and 30 pages of frustration. The title "Among the Righteous" suits his political mission -- to find evidence that Arabs participated in the Holocaust, as active saviors of persecuted Jews -- but it doesn't apply to most of the material in the book.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-remington/robert-satloffs-among-the_b_417125.html