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Jonathon Narvey of The Propagandist has written a compelling, if sadly nauseating, series on the effort by Adbusters - a Vancouver-based alternative media network - to associate the State of Israel with the crimes of Nazi Germany through a photo essay comparing Gaza with the Warsaw Ghetto. Sounds like that would win some awards in Tehran, at least. Read Jonathon here, here and then here.
Regular readers will need no introduction to Luis D’Elía. The renowned social activist and prominent supporter of the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner shares his thoughts with the world on Twitter and a few minutes ago he posted this:
Continue reading ‘Argentine Jews: Someone’s Keeping An Eye On You’
The recent draconian legislation in Arizona aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants has generated a firestorm of debate in the United States. While some criticism of the law - most obviously that of President Barack Obama - has been measured, others out there have been all too keen to reach for the nearest outrageous analogy. China and the Soviet Union have been invoked by some American activists, whose rhetoric enabled the Cuban regime to take a break from locking up dissidents in order to gleefuly denounce a “racist and xenophobic” law.
Inevitably in this atmosphere, Nazi Germany has been held up as a comparison too. Earlier this afternoon, NPR gave me the opportunity to explain why this is such a grotesque use of history. The same point was forcefully made by Clarissa Martinez of the National Council of La Raza, who appeared alongside me, and who proved that principled opposition to the Arizona law is possible without sinking into the depths of the Nazi analogy. Do listen here; scroll down to the item in the right-hand menu entitled “Connection Between Arizona and Nazi Germany Fair?”
Vilified is a new short film which I wrote and directed for AJC, the organization which sponsors Z Word. Exposing the lies and libels which target Israel, you can watch it here on YouTube.
“Once the central argument of anti-Israel campaigning in this country is that Israel is Nazi Germany, then this is no longer an anti-Zionist movement: it is an antisemitic one, with an antisemitic politics as its driving force.” Read Dave Rich on Harry’s Place.
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been a silent party to one of the most disturbing email exchanges I’ve ever encountered.
In the wake of the conflict in Gaza, David Stavrou, a freelance Israeli journalist based in Sweden, has written a piece which shows how current Swedish antisemitism - driven by the left but also embedded in the mainstream, and dominated by demands for solidarity with the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah - replicates what we are seeing in many other countries.
“…as some people who don’t like Jews have found, it’s worth acknowledging the Holocaust if you can then turn it into a cudgel against the Jews. And that they’ve done, in spades. According to this crowd, the Jews today have become Nazis. The Jewish state is now supposedly carrying out a Holocaust against the Palestinians. Jews, the haters say, have always been evil, and their evil is only growing.”
Read Walter Reich in the Washington Post.
We’ve recently been treated to the spectacle of Aengus Ó Snodaigh, a member of the lower house of Ireland’s parliament, comparing both Alan Shatter, the only Jewish member of the same legislature, and Zion Evrony, the Israeli ambassador to Ireland, to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
Continue reading ‘Gaza: Jewish Legislator in Ireland Compared to Goebbels’
Mahmoud al Zahar, one of the principal Hamas leaders in Gaza, delivered a blood-curdling speech in which he stated that Islamists had the right to murder Jewish children anywhere in the world in the light of Israel’s operation in Gaza. “They have legitimized the killing of their people all over the world by killing our people,” he said.
Continue reading ‘Hamas Tries to Appear Reasonable (and Fails)’
Via NickM, another demonstration - this time in Anaheim, California - of the “Jews-Should-Know-Better” argument, another assertion that the fighting in Gaza is the equivalent of the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews and millions of others.
One of the more sinister aspects of the academic boycott campaign against Israel in the UK was its demand that Israeli academics take a disloyalty oath: that in order to engage in international collaboration with other academics, they had to first disavow their government. That tactic has now been imported to Canada.
Continue reading ‘Israel Academic Boycott Urged by Canada Labor Leader’
Over at Open Democracy, Vera Gowlland-Debbas - Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, no less - would have us believe that Gaza is comparable to the Warsaw Ghetto.
When Israel acts to defend its civilian population, as it is doing now with the Gaza operation, there is a weary inevitability to the discordant voices comparing the Jewish State with Nazi Germany, or making the related argument that Israel should, in the light of modern Jewish history, simply know better.
David Hirsh has weighed in on the event at London University’s Goldsmiths College which advertised a seamless link between the Warsaw Ghetto and the current situation in Gaza.
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