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The Jew Flu

January 07, 2011 16:56

Long and interesting article from Haaretz (yes, there is, although this one was some time ago):
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/news/the-jew-flu-the-strange-illness...

Those infected with the virus wildly inflate Israeli sins real or imagined, while excusing or rationalizing Palestinian anti-semitism and outrages against Jews.

Where, oh, where have I seen that?

As it turns out, the afflicted regularly engage in at least one of the following -Demonization (comparing Israeli actions to Nazism and referring to Arab refugee camps as Auschwitz);- Double Standards (singling out Israel for human rights abuses while ignoring the blatant human rights violators such as Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Palestinian Authority, North Korea, Cuba, China, Myanmar etc); and Delegitimization (denying Israel the fundamental right to exist as a Jewish state)

Hmmm.. I have a feeling of déjà-vu!

And examples from recent history will ring a bell:

This phenomenon was epitomized by Rosa Luxemburg, a prominent Bolshevik and Jew Flu victim. "I have no room in my heart for Jewish suffering," declared Rosa the Red. "Why do you pester me with Jewish troubles? I feel closer to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations of Putumayo or the Negroes in Africa... I have no separate corner in my heart for the ghetto."

Everyone can see here a description of the Walinuts, the aarondovers (or Dobrzynskis), the Milligramsams...

January 07, 2011 16:56

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