Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: The Guardian just loves self-hating Jews

http://www.thejc.com/node/11039
Emanuele Ottolenghi
January 15, 2009
Some of us can’t do enough to support our enemies
Last Saturday, the Guardian published a letter that compared Israel to
the Nazis; described the Palestinian Authority as “Palestinian
Quislings”; called on Britain to recall its ambassador to Tel Aviv;
and supported a boycott of Israeli goods.
Before informing the readers that the images from Gaza “reminded” them
“of the siege of the Warsaw Ghetto”, the 78 signatories felt compelled
to say: “We the undersigned are all of Jewish origin”, somehow
establishing a connection between what they said (Israel = Nazi) and
who they were (Jews).
This is not the first time the Guardian has given voice to Jews proud
to be ashamed to be Jewish. In 2002, it published a letter in which 45
Jewish intellectuals denounced the Jewish state.
The latest letter raises, as do its predecessors, three questions: the
substance of the accusations levelled against Israel; whether being
Jewish makes such opinions more compelling or more legitimate; and
what purpose these individuals serve, by linking their Jewish
credentials to the radical ideas they endorse.
On the substance, the signatories compare Israel’s actions in Gaza to
the Nazis. This is not new, of course, but its repetition does not
make it truer. In Auschwitz, there were around 30,000 daily deaths —
all unarmed, starved prisoners. In Gaza, since the start of Israel’s
offensive, there have been fewer than 50 deaths a day, up to 70
percent of them Hamas fighters. Nazis took joy at massacring
civilians. Israelis give warning via phone to civilians. Nazis starved
their victims for months before destroying the Ghetto.Israel sends
humanitarian aid in the form of food and medicines every day.
Intelligent people should be able to see the difference and refrain
from such comparisons. Are our friends of Jewish origins stupid or
malicious? Judge for yourself.
But the effect is to demonise Israel by comparing it with Nazism, the
quintessential evil of modern European history.
And, in the process, it ends up trivializing the Holocaust as well,
much like Holocaust denial. If only 50 people a day died in the Warsaw
Ghetto while the Nazis were resupplying their hapless Jewish victims
with food and medicine, one cannot fault the Nazis too much. It also
follows, logically, that Jews trying to turn that history into a
paradigm of evil are exaggerating – for political goals perhaps? You
see where this can go.
Anyone with a sense of history should know better than to compare Gaza
to the Warsaw Ghetto. Even in Zimbabwe things are worse than Gaza.
Does that “remind” them of the Warsaw Ghetto? Or do people “of Jewish
origin” evoke such comparisons only when Israel is involved?
Second, is being Jewish relevant? Identity is no substitute for
knowledge and expertise; religious identity does not confer authority
to speak on anything. So why the invocation of “Jewish origin”?
Because the Jews are the gatekeepers and once they break a taboo,
others can cross that line. If you are Jewish, what you say cannot be
labelled as antisemitic. If you are going to trivialize the Holocaust
and demonise Israel, it therefore helps being Jewish — ask Norman
Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust Industry. Had he been an
Episcopalian, no one would ever have heard of him. Because he is
Jewish and the son of Holocaust survivors, his lurid thesis made him a
“courageous whistleblower”. The same with the Guardian’s Jewish letter
writers.
It follows that these proclamations of “Jewish origin” serve an
agenda: they offer an alibi to antisemites. Shielded behind such
proclamations, our enemies can call for our destruction, protected by
a Jewish certificate of good behaviour that shows that what they are
saying is no worse than what certain people “of Jewish origin” are
thinking.
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"mi onoro di averne come ospiti abituali" (Luca Logi / rodewalder)
cfr 
http://raionim.blogspot.com/2008/12/luca-logi-e-i-piselli.html


http://www.thejc.com/node/11039
non a caso è il giornale di riferimento del Logi
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http://raionim.blogspot.com/2008/12/luca-logi-e-i-piselli.html

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http://raionim.blogspot.com/2008/12/luca-logi-e-i-piselli.html
quando riesce a trovarlo.
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"Il sito 
thejc.com
, che non ha niente a che fare con The Jewish
Chronicle" (Luca Logi / rodewalder / Golda Meir)
http://raionim.blogspot.com/2009/01/il-sito-thejc.html

 
http://www.thejc.com/node/11039
supponiamo che un giorno Israele non ci sia più: sarebbe corretto
chiamare self hating jew i sionisti? E allora certe definizioni
infilatevele su per il culo