Given the number of besieged and battered cities there have been in however many thousands of years of pitiless warfare there is only one explanation for this invocation of Warsaw before any of those – it is to wound Jews in their recent and most anguished history and to punish them with their own grief. Its aim is
Wednesday, 18th February 2009
A requiem for British decency
8:59am
Simply magnificent piece in today’sIndependent by Howard Jacobson about the ‘deranged and irreversible’ hatred of Israel that has engulfed Britain’s intelligentsia and poisoned the environment for so many British Jews. At the centre of his heartbroken and anguished requiem for dear old decent, rational Britain which is dying before our eyes out lies his identification of a new and vicious form of Holocaust denial and Jew-hatred– the equation of Israel with the Nazis and of Gaza with the Warsaw Ghetto:
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Thursday, 19 February 2009
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