Another MUST READ by Margaret Anna Alice - Profiles in Courage: Prof. Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi #IStandWithSucharit
#IStandWithSucharit: Voice Your Support for Sucharit Bhakdi Before His May 23, 2023, Trial
We for Humanity, one of the Jewish groups that cowrote the Open Letter in Commemoration of Clemens Arvay I was granted the honor of publishing, wrote an Open Letter to the Media from Holocaust Survivors and Descendants with thirty-three signatories that reads in part:
“After the shocking news reached us that the state-funded media has accused Professor Sucharit Bhakdi of being an anti-Semite, we decided to write this letter. We stand behind Professor Bhakdi because he speaks the truth.
“You, the media, have lied to the people for years by preaching false lessons from the Holocaust.…
“The lesson of the Holocaust is that you must not stand by and participate when a minority is persecuted. They have instrumentalized the Holocaust for the opposite: to deprive people of the will to stand up against injustice. And in this godless way you have prepared and are in the process of implementing a new Holocaust.
“We expressly warn that another holocaust is unfolding, only bigger and more sophisticated. The brutality with which you fight, deny, hurt and humiliate the opposition, both verbally and physically, serves to suppress the truth. Destroyed livelihoods, apartment searches, occupational bans, forced referrals to psychiatric hospitals and worse—this could be the story from our lives, but this is the reality we observe in Germany.
“We will not be silenced.”
Dr. Bhakdi, sadly, is not alone in his plight. Other dissidents have been maliciouslymaligned as “anti-semites” or accused of relativizing the Holocaust for trying to stop the Never Again unfolding before our bloodshot eyes.
With characteristic humility and compassion, Dr. Bhakdi told me in an email, “I am only one of many.”
Again, I am reminded of the words of Joseph K.:
“What has happened to me is merely a single case and as such of no particular consequence, since I don’t take it very seriously, but it is typical of the proceedings being brought against many people. I speak for them, not for myself.”
It is time for us to speak for Sucharit. Together, let us practice Mettā Karuṇā, Muditā, and Upekkhā.
Read the whole thing, watch the videos, think, ponder, pray…
NEVER AGAIN is happenning AGAIN!
Jenny Hatch