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Holocaust Memorial Day

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

487 c477-500 

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lee Scott | 487 c496-7 (Link to this contribution) I start by following the example of other Members, of all parties, who have contributed to the debat...

Greg Hands | 487 c494-6 (Link to this contribution) It has been a truly excellent debate, particularly the emotional and moving speech by the hon. Membe...

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Lee Scott | 487 c497-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is, of course, totally right in everything that he said—those events should be record...

Lee Scott | 487 c498 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but I do not totally agree with him. Of course we c...

Lembit Opik | 487 c498 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is only in relation to Israel that people seem to conflate rel...

Lord Robathan | 487 c492 (Link to this contribution) I would indeed agree, which is why we need to inculcate tolerance of others in our society. Let me ...

Lembit Opik | 487 c491 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the outstanding contribution to the memory of the holocaust creat...

Speaker | 487 c494 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Lady's time is up.

Dari Taylor | 487 c492-4 (Link to this contribution) The theme of Holocaust memorial day is ““Stand up to hatred””. With that in mind, I want to quote fr...

Gordon Banks | 487 c489 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. We all know the history of...

Julian Lewis | 487 c488 (Link to this contribution) Last year, I went to Auschwitz-Birkenau under the aegis of the Holocaust Educational Trust, and it w...

Lord Robathan | 487 c491 (Link to this contribution) May I first apologise to the Minister, as I have a long-standing doctor's appointment that will pull...

Andrew Dismore | 487 c489 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions the period between 1914 and the second world war. We commemorate the holocau...

Lembit Opik | 487 c487-8 (Link to this contribution) My parents were among those who were provided with refuge in the UK from the turmoil of war and the ...

Anne Snelgrove | 487 c487 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has eloquently made the point that I was about to make. Even though the liberation of...

Andrew Dismore | 487 c487 (Link to this contribution) I, too, was on that visit, and what struck me when we visited the Warsaw ghetto was that the consequ...

Sadiq Khan | 487 c498-500 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to all the hon. Members who have spoken for their wise and insightful contributions to...

Shailesh Vara | 487 c480 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way; he is being very generous with his time. Of course, we...

Sadiq Khan | 487 c480 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. When I was at the Holocaust centre on Monday—the hon. Member...

John Bercow | 487 c480 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Sadiq Khan | 487 c480 (Link to this contribution) With the hon. Gentleman's charm, how can I say no?

John Bercow | 487 c480-1 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely sorry to interrupt the Minister, who has been incredibly generous. As he will know, h...

Sadiq Khan | 487 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) As someone who has spent my life, in Parliament and before, defending human rights and civil liberti...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 487 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) Holocaust memorial day is, of course, 27 January and on that day this year, my hon. Friend the Membe...

Sadiq Khan | 487 c479 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady raises an important point, although I think that I am in danger of taking 12 intervent...

Lee Scott | 487 c483 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern that neo-Nazi parties could well use the mist of what has happe...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 487 c483-4 (Link to this contribution) In many ways, that is related to a point that has been made from the Conservative Benches, which is ...

Anne Snelgrove | 487 c484-5 (Link to this contribution) I add my thanks to the Leader of the House for allowing us to have the debate today. I hope that it ...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 487 c483 (Link to this contribution) I broadly agree with the hon. Gentleman, and in fact he has anticipated part of the direction in whi...

David Winnick | 487 c483 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman also accept that a number of Jews—possibly a minority, I do not know—feel as...

Speaker | 487 c486 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions must be brief; the time for the debate is limited.

Anne Snelgrove | 487 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. I did not mean to suggest that bigotry and hatred came from o...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 487 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Lady. I am sure that she agrees that genocide and mass murder d...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 487 c483 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I shall come to that point later.

Andrew Dismore | 487 c483 (Link to this contribution) On the appalling situation in Gaza and southern Israel, does the hon. Gentleman agree that people wh...

Sadiq Khan | 487 c477 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of Holocaust Memorial Day." I am grateful ...

Andrew Dismore | 487 c477 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend because he has made an important point, particularly in the wake of ...

Sadiq Khan | 487 c477 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention; my hon. Friend deserves a huge tribute for the progress made in...

Sadiq Khan | 487 c478 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution. Keen as I am to empire-build and to take over Depar...

Julian Lewis | 487 c479 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to keep labouring this point, but what the hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) s...

Sadiq Khan | 487 c478 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that my right hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane) is pa...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 487 c478 (Link to this contribution) Has Her Majesty's Government made any representations through its diplomatic envoys at the Holy See—...

John Bercow | 487 c478 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who has already given way generously in the early sta...

Speaker | 487 c478 (Link to this contribution) Order. That is a step too far.

David Winnick | 487 c477 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with the Minister and my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore). Holocaust ...

Sadiq Khan | 487 c478 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend, who has a rich history of fighting anti-Semitism and racism. Let us be clear...

Theresa Villiers | 487 c479 (Link to this contribution) As the Member for Chipping Barnet, I have the great honour of representing constituents who include ...

Sadiq Khan | 487 c479 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the role that the hon. Gentleman has played with regard to David Irving when he wen...

Julian Lewis | 487 c497 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's mention of Theresienstadt reminded me of one of the brightest aspects of the whole ...

Lembit Opik | 487 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) I fully agree with the hon. Gentleman. The lessons to be learned from Auschwitz are a priceless cont...

Gordon Banks | 487 c489-91 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I hope that people in history will learn from history—from its good points,...

Subjects

Crimes of violence Community relations Education Harassment Discrimination Holocaust Memorial Day Racial discrimination Religious hatred Antisemitism Holocaust Educational Trust Holocaust

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