Why I can’t join my family in honoring our ancestors killed in the Holocaust while Israel commits genocide in Gaza – Mondoweiss

I was driving home from the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit when family in Prague sent an invitation for me to join a Stolperstine placement ceremony. 

Stolperstines are memorial stones set into the pavement outside the last voluntary residence of victims of the Nazi genocide. The daughter of my grandmother’s cousin “J” commissioned this Stolperstine in memory of the grandparents she never knew.

A few years ago, while translating family letters written from…