Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Point of no return: On Howard Gutman and excuses for antisemitism

Point of no return: On Howard Gutman and excuses for antisemitism

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2011/12/us-ambassador-to-belgium-howard-gutman.html


..... "When Salman Rushdie writes a controversial novel, when a Danish newspaper publishes 'inflammatory cartoons' or when Israel kills Palestinians in Gaza, infidels and Jews become fair game for a backlash.Jews do not go on the rampage in German shopping malls because of the Holocaust; despite claims of mounting Islamophobia, Americans did not riot after 9-11. Only Arabs and Muslims are expected to vent their anger and frustration and let it spill over against innocent third parties.....

..."We have been here before. In the Arab world, Jews had long been on the receiving end of Muslim or Arab anger (well before the creation of Israel).Hundreds died in sporadic pogroms in 19th century Morocco, in the 1941 Iraqi Farhoud and in Libya in 1945.Boycotts were a hallmark of Nazi Europe,but they were also attempted boycotts on Jewish shops and businesses in Lebanon, Iraq and Morocco.”...


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