Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: the racism we ignore

It’s been horrible to see images from Israel of school girls – some as
young as 8 - spat at and cursed as “sluts” by Ultra-Orthodox Jews, all
grown men, for showing a millimetre or two of flesh. These young girls
are themselves Orthodox Jews, and reasonably observant. But clearly
not observant enough for these religious extremists, who would also
want Jewish women like me to sit separate from men on a bus.
 
They remain in a minority, although their presence and influence is
growing in Israel. And as Israel is still the one democracy in today’s
Middle East, many Israeli NGOs and human rights groups are honest
enough to monitor the fact.
 
The international media, never reluctant to report Israel’s failings –
both real and imagined - has not been slow to pick up and run with the
story.
 
Fair enough. What baffles me, however, is why the worldwide media is
much more reluctant to report many disturbing instances of racism
against Jews, often the sentiments of Palestinian leaders and
institutions. Because what is said about Jews – in Gaza and the West
Bank – on TV channels, in newspapers, even in schools, I find deeply
upsetting.
 
Let me give you some recent examples. I have just been looking at some
grotesque caricatures of Jews in the official newspaper of the
Palestinian Authority. The same newspaper in which I read not so long
ago that “the Jewish religion is false, distorted and corrupted,” and
that “Jews are inherently evil” and “plan to take over the world.”
 
Then there’s the Professor of History on Palestinian TV who referred
to “the Jewish disease inflicted on the Palestinian people”?
 
Or this in a PA-funded educational magazine for children, in which a
teenager has a dream about Hitler: “You’re the one who killed the
Jews?” she says to him. “Yes,” Hitler replies, “I killed them so you
would all know that they are a nation which spreads destruction all
over the world.”
 
Then the Mufti of the Palestinian Authority – its most senior
religious leader – has got away with saying that Jews are “the enemies
of Allah, who have deviated from their humanity.”
 
What worse kind of demonisation of an entire people can there be?
 
And, in fact, comparing us to Apes and Pigs is quite common. This from
Al-Aqsa TV – a station run by Hamas: “The descendants of pigs and apes
defile Jerusalem.”
 
OK, there is a debate to be had on the conditions and fate of
Palestinians living in East Jerusalem. But that doesn’t begin to
excuse such blatantly racist language about Jews. And it also doesn’t
begin to excuse the international media – not least in this country -
for ignoring it; and, by ignoring it, colluding in it.
 
If it’s going to headline the excesses of a minority of Ultra-Orthdox
Jews – and I think it should – it should also end its deafening
silence about the public, mainstream displays of overt racism in the
West Bank and Gaza...
 
 
http://www.thefifthcolumn.co.uk/the-agitator/wendy-robbins-on-the-racism-we-ignore/
 

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Sempre la solita storia: sě, qualche porcata c'č, ma i palestinesi
sono peggio!
 
AGGIORNATI, REVERENDO. CAMBIA REGISTRO.

  ma i palestinesi sono peggio!
 
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