The Knesset voted down a bill on Wednesday that would have recognized that the Yazidi people, a Kurdish religious minority with a presence in Iraq and Syria and the surrounding region, had been victims of genocide. Fifty-eight Knesset members voted against the bill, which was sponsored by Zionist Union Knesset member Ksenia Svetlova, while 38
Despite having a higher rate of illnesses, Holocaust survivors live an average of seven years longer than their peers of the same age group. Ido Efrati | Jan. 7, 2019 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-holocaust-survivors-live-longer-than-native-born-israelis-1.6822053 Citation from Hebrew edition of newspaper: Efrati, Ido (January 7, 2019). Israeli research: Holocaust survivors live about 7 years longer than native-born Israelis, but
Lynne Tracy, Ambassadorial nominee to Armenia, confirms “the mass killings that ended 1.5 million lives,” but will not use the big G-word and say the profanity “Genocide.” In a forceful editorial, “U.S. Ambassador to Armenian Should Call the Armenian Genocide a Genocide,” Harut Sassounian, publisher of the California Courier, reproduces the amazing dialogue of denial