Sunday Nov 09, 2008
“The Warped Mirror: Gaza Ghetto gibberish”

Posted by Petra Marquardt-Bigman

http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/Bigman/entry/gaza_ghetto_gibberish_posted_by

“London U. event likens Gaza to Ghetto”

Nov. 7, 2008

JONNY PAUL, JPost correspondent in

London , THE JERUSALEM POST

“LONDON - The situation in Gaza will be compared to that in the Warsaw Ghetto under the Nazis, at a prestigious London university next week.

The Student Union at Goldsmiths college, University of London, is hosting an event on Wednesday titled “From the Warsaw Ghetto to the Gaza Ghetto.”

The event is being organized by the Palestine Twinning Campaign, a student union group that won a vote last February to twin Goldsmiths with Al-Quds University’s campus near Nablus and to offer scholarships to two Al-Quds students.

Speaking at Wednesday event will be Suzanne Weiss, a Holocaust survivor and member of the Toronto-based “Not in our Name: Jews against Zionism,” and academic Ghada Ageel, who grew up in Gaza and now teaches Middle Eastern politics at Exeter University…..”

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910058557&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

This important story needs its own entry and commentary here Ben, Eamonn!

Andrés Ortega Klein, Columnist and Editorial Writer at El País attended the above conference in February, but obviously the message that got through to El País is get to on with Israel bashing as usual.

http://philosemitism.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-media-biased-israel-and-europe-chaim.html

I would also like to point out that the headline, whoever concocted it, is meant to show sympathy for the Palestinians:

“El Ejército de Israel rompe la tregua en Gaza al matar a seis milicianos.”

With the killing of six militants, the Israeli army, broke its truce in Gaza.”

Now the word “miliciano” is meant to recall the anti-Francoista militia fighters in the 1936 civil war.

It’s as if some French paper called the Hamas terrorists “maquisards,” which is to say French resistant fighters against the Nazis.

Then, there is the added irony that in the picture of some blindfolded girls (no explanations is given) there is written in Hebrew “it’s forbidden to smoke.”

Even the simplest semiotic analysis would show that this article is meant to show the Israelis as bullies and the Palestinians as poor oppressed volk.

Given that I favor historical explanations for these attitude I would say that the stench of 1492 (the year the Jews were expelled from Spain) is still around.