 [IsraelTimes] ‘You are killing children,’ woman tells Charlotte Korchak on train tracks outside death camp with group of US teens; she retorts: ‘I will never be ashamed to wear this flag’
An American educator was recently accosted for holding an Israeli flag outside Auschwitz-Birkenau during a visit to Poland, with a clip showing her heatedly responding to a question as to whether she was ashamed of Israel’s conduct in the war in GazooCharlotte Korchak, founder of the US-based Jerusalem Education Institute, said she was "shocked" by the encounter, which came at the end of her first-ever visit to the Nazi concentration camp alongside a group of high school students from Miami.
"As we were leaving, I’m standing on the train tracks leading into Auschwitz, holding an Israeli flag, taking a picture, and a girl had the audacity to come up to me and ask me if I was ashamed for holding the Israeli flag," she said in an Instagram video after the incident.
"You are killing children," the unidentified woman told her in the clip, arguing that many Paleostinians have died since the Gaza war was sparked by the Hamas
terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught.
"You’re not doing this in front of a bunch of Jews outside Auschwitz. Walk away," Korchak answered, adding that talking about the Paleostinian deaths was like talking about the German corpse count in World War II.
After the woman said her Gazook friends had been "forced to leave their homes because of you," Korchak retorted that her friends had been murdered too, in the Nova music festival on October 7 and in suicide kabooms while she lived in Israel during the Second Intifada in the 2000s.
“How about, instead of attacking me, you understand that hate doesn’t help us?” she said. “I will never be ashamed to wear this flag, and I will never be ashamed of being a Jew.”
Korchak dismissed the woman’s claim that her remarks weren’t directed against Jews.
“Why did you come here? To learn what? To learn history, to learn why this country exists?” she answered, noting that Israel was founded so that the Holocaust wouldn’t repeat itself.
At the end of the encounter, as Korchak told her that she was an “embarrassment,” the woman turned around and left and the teenage boys sang “Am Yisrael Chai” (The Nation of Israel lives).
To be fair, they sang very aggressively. That’s what drove the hater away, I think. What a vile specimen of humanity. In the video after the incident, Korchak lamented that “even the people visiting Auschwitz have not learned the lesson” from the death camp, referring to the accoster as “an antisemite who is convinced she’s just an anti-Zionist.”
The Nazi regime systematically killed six million Jews during the Holocaust, a million of them at Auschwitz, as it tried to wipe out the Jewish people.
Jewish family assaulted and called ‘child killers’ by Vienna Uber driver
[IsraelTimes] A Jewish family, some of them from Israel, said an Uber driver in Vienna assaulted a member of their group and called them "murderers" and "child killers" before forcing them out the vehicle last week.
A Monday post on Facebook by the antisemitism reporting center of the Jewish Religious Community (IKG), the body that formally represents Austria’s Jews, described the incident, the latest in a number of attacks on Israelis in Europa
 ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
over the summer vacation.
The organization said the family, a Jewish couple with two children aged 10 and 13, and a 75-year-old woman, ordered an Uber to take them to a restaurant to celebrate a birthday.
When the driver realized that some of the passengers were Israeli, he called them "murderers" and said that he did not want to have "child killers" in his vehicle, according to the post.
The organization said the driver pulled over and forced the family out, and continued insulting them as well as physically assaulting the father.
The organization said that the family had filed a police report.
According to the Ynet news site, Uber said it had immediately suspended the driver and launched an internal investigation.
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