Daniel Pearl-

MrBrian

Daniel Pearl To Be Remembered With Holocaust Victims
Journalist Killed By Terrorists In 2002


MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Daniel Pearl, the American journalist who was abducted and killed by terrorists in 2002, is expected to be remembered during a Holocaust memorial ceremony here Sunday.

Pearl's name will be added to Miami Beach's Holocaust Memorial Wall during Yom Hashoah -- the annual time of remembrance. It will be the first time a non-Holocaust victim has been remembered there.

Judea Pearl, 70, Daniel Pearl's father, will speak at the ceremony.


"Of course he was not a victim of the Holocaust," he told The Miami Herald. But "the same forces that killed my grandparents in Auschwitz, the forces of hatred, are still operating in our world in the 21st century -- and Danny is one of the victims."

Norman Braman, chair emeritus of the Holocaust Memorial committee, said organizers felt it was appropriate to place Pearl's name on the wall.

"There wasn't one individual that was in opposition," Braman said. "Daniel really died for basically one reason, and basically the same reason 6 million others did, and that was for the crime of being a Jew."

Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was researching a story on Islamic militancy in Karachi, Pakistan when he was abducted in January 2002. The journalist's body was found months later in a shallow ditch in a compound on the outskirts of Karachi.

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I feel that it should be kept seperate. history is history. his death had nothing to do with the Holocaust. why add his name? if hate killed him the names of other victims of hate should also be added right?

But it's not my wall, people can do what they want with it.

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tara

not quite sure how i feel about this, but i think that the argument for putting his name on the wall would be because of the circumstances of his murder (it was incredibly gruesome), and as a reminder that anti-semitism is still highly prevalent, though little spoken of in society outside of the jewish community. if he was from the miami area, than putting his name on that wall (there are, unfortunately, similar walls in a lot of places) is a way for the community to remember one of their own without creating another memorial solely dedicated to him.

libragirl

I'm not sure if I agree with his name being put on a Holocaust Memorial. But his death was antisemetic...but the holocaust was a whole separate thing so i guess I do agree with you about that.

MrBrian

tara wrote:

not quite sure how i feel about this, but i think that the argument for putting his name on the wall would be because of the circumstances of his murder (it was incredibly gruesome), and as a reminder that anti-semitism is still highly prevalent, though little spoken of in society outside of the jewish community. if he was from the miami area, than putting his name on that wall (there are, unfortunately, similar walls in a lot of places) is a way for the community to remember one of their own without creating another memorial solely dedicated to him.

some good points,

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I checked on his history, he was born in NJ and grew up in cali. nevertheless I think that even if he was another religion or no religion at all he would've been killed at the time. so I'm not sure if the anti jewish argument is valid, then again it was an issue at the time of his death.

Hate is obvioulsy a bad thing, I just feel that something else could be done to counter it (hate), adding to history like this I feel is the wrong way. I think it has a bit of a propaganda value to it.