Jock L. Falkson
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To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day LibDem MP David Ward is reported to have said:
\n\u201cHaving visited Auschwitz twice \u201d\u201c once with my family and once with local schools \u201d\u201c I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza.\u201d\u009d
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While I am sure that you accept the maxim that punishment should fit the crime, you obviously except Jews from this morally correct standard. Allow me to explain my umbrage:
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I was not in Auschwitz.
\nI did not suffer unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust.
\nI was not liberated from the death camps.
\nI emigrated from South Africa to Israel in 1993.
\nI have never met a Palestinian.
\nI have never committed an atrocity on a Palestinian on a daily basis in the West Bank or in Gaza. Nor elsewhere at any time.
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You don`t provide a scintilla of evidence to prove your vile allegation that I, as an Israeli Jew, have inflicted and continue to inflict, atrocities on Palestinians.\n
\nCan you be so ignorant as to believe that all Jews think alike and act alike?
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Are you so unintelligent as to tar all Jews in Israel with the same brush?
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I marvel at your indifference to truth which permits you to extrapolate the alleged sins of some Jews on \u201cthe Jews\u201d\u009d. You clearly believe it is right to punish \u201cthe Jews\u201d\u009d for the alleged behavior of some. Such thinking is anti-Semitic by definition.
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In the past it has lead directly to cries of \u201cKill the Jews\u201d\u009d, \u201cDon Whatever, blaming the many for the sins of the few is immoral, unjust, even uncivilized. That Sir is what correctly defines you as an anti-Semite. \u201cHaving visited Auschwitz twice \u201d\u201c once with my family and once with local schools \u201d\u201c I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza.\u201d\u009d<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,49,2,84,52,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}t buy from the Jews\u201d\u009d, \u201cDon<\/code>t associate with the Jews\u201d\u009d. These days it re-emerged under the anti-Israel BDS slogan: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
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