Dodenherdenking: gefusilleerd
Utrecht 2020
Het graf van Pieter Zuydendorp, die in 1944 door de Duitse bezetter werd gefusilleerd.
Het is overigens diep treurig dat we de lessen van toen niet geleerd hebben en dat de belofte ‘nooit meer’ vergeten lijkt te zijn, nu we de moordpartijen in Gaza en Sudan en elders laten gebeuren of zelfs actief steunen.
Zoals Stine Jensen in NRC schrijft:
In de bergen werd ik herinnerd aan een spirituele wijsheid die het zo zegt: ‘separation is an illusion’, afscheiding is een illusie. Uiteindelijk zijn wij mensen verbonden met elkaar op deze aarde. Je kunt doen alsof de Tweede Wereldoorlog en de Holocaust los staan van de rest van de geschiedenis, maar dat is niet zo. De nog levende Gazanen en de meer dan 50.000 dode Palestijnen verdienen dat zij tijdens de Nationale Dodenherdenking niet gehoord hoeven worden via een boze Damschreeuwer. Recht doen aan Palestijns leed sluit het Joodse leed van toen en nu niet uit, en mag natuurlijk op geen enkele manier reden zijn om de Holocaust te bagatelliseren of antisemitisme aan te wakkeren.Wat we zeker weten is dit: ‘Nooit meer’ is niet gelukt. En daar hebben we uit respect voor alle slachtoffers op een waardige wijze bij stil te staan.
(Van mijn blog | From my blog)
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Around the globe, conflict is spreading – but it’s too often going ignored. Are we simply overwhelmed by the scale of it?
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... Show more...It’s right to remember the dead of 1939-45. But keep the anger about current wars too
The Guardian
Around the globe, conflict is spreading – but it’s too often going ignored. Are we simply overwhelmed by the scale of it?
(Text continues underneath the photo.)
A funeral ceremony for people killed in a US airstrike on a marketplace in Sanaa, Yemen, 23 April 2025. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Victims of Nazi atrocities will be remembered at ceremonies next week marking the end of the second world war in Europe. (...)
The dead of 1939-45 should never be forgotten. But we should also be mindful to count the dead of 2025. To know that in years to come, we will remember, record and honour victims of today’s recurring atrocities. (...)
When confronted by such horrors, silence is unacceptable. Silence is complicity. To remain silent is to suggest nothing has been learned from the past. (...)
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People in wealthier, more stable countries appear overwhelmed by the vast extent and sheer awfulness of global breakdown. Anecdotally, many say that faced by relentless tsunamis of upsetting news they simply “switch off”. It’s not that they don’t care. It’s that they feel powerless. Natural disasters still prompt generous responses. (...)
But man-made “forever wars”, and complicated ethnic and religious conflicts in, say, Afghanistan, Syria or Somalia are harder to engage with. (...)
War and conflict are products, not causes, of current world disorder, which is primarily political in origin. Spreading instability stems, partly at least, from political fragmentation, from the ongoing rejection of globalisation and an agreed international rulebook. A rising tide of authoritarian rightwing populism, ultra-nationalism, me-first economics, xenophobic prejudice and fear of difference – as well as an enervating loss of faith, trust and moral purpose – contribute to this depleted sense of connection. (...)
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