Comments on: Jenin Orchestra Disbanded http://blog.z-word.com/2009/03/jenin-orchestra-disbanded/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Tue, 22 May 2012 18:04:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: ganselmi http://blog.z-word.com/2009/03/jenin-orchestra-disbanded/#comment-4410 ganselmi Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:19:32 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1181#comment-4410 It's a sad state of affairs. This was yet another door to cultural understanding and solidarity closed, not by the "Zionist entity," but by Islamist ignorance and intolerance. It’s a sad state of affairs.

This was yet another door to cultural understanding and solidarity closed, not by the “Zionist entity,” but by Islamist ignorance and intolerance.

]]> By: Good things « Engage - the anti-racist campaign against antisemitism http://blog.z-word.com/2009/03/jenin-orchestra-disbanded/#comment-4409 Good things « Engage - the anti-racist campaign against antisemitism Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:19:18 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1181#comment-4409 [...] UPDATE: Commenters below link to news items reporting that the orchestra from Jenin has been disbanded by the Palestinian Authority as a direct consequence of the performance. More from Ben Cohen. [...] […] UPDATE: Commenters below link to news items reporting that the orchestra from Jenin has been disbanded by the Palestinian Authority as a direct consequence of the performance. More from Ben Cohen. […]

]]> By: Jacob http://blog.z-word.com/2009/03/jenin-orchestra-disbanded/#comment-4408 Jacob Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:20:18 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1181#comment-4408 From the New York Times article: "Jewish suffering under the Nazis is a volatile subject in Palestinian society, where there is widespread ignorance of the details of the Holocaust and a feeling that Palestinians paid a price for its use as a justification for the Jewish state. This is a pc way of putting. It would more correct to say that there is widespread denial of the Holocaust. Yet the same people who deny or are ignorant of it like to refer to the Israelis Nazis. From the New York Times article:

“Jewish suffering under the Nazis is a volatile subject in Palestinian society, where there is widespread ignorance of the details of the Holocaust and a feeling that Palestinians paid a price for its use as a justification for the Jewish state.

This is a pc way of putting. It would more correct to say that there is widespread denial of the Holocaust.

Yet the same people who deny or are ignorant of it like to refer to the Israelis Nazis.

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