Re: If you criticise Israel, you must be a Nazi.
Yeah... This relentless mudslinging by Judeofascist provocateurs is tiresome but, hopefully, their name-calling tactics will prove more and more counterproductive and, eventually, backfire.
Fortunately, not all Jews are Judeofascist swines:
Declaration Against Israel Splits Jews in South Africa
Jon Jeter Washington Post Service
Friday, December 21, 2001
Mideast Apartheid? Palestinians as Victims
JOHANNESBURG It is a brief document, occupying less than half a page in a local newspaper here. But since the "declaration of conscience" was published nearly two weeks ago, it has polarized South African Jews like no issue since the collapse of white-minority rule seven years ago.
Written by two Jewish heroes of South Africa's liberation struggle against the white government's apartheid system, and signed by 220 Jews, the document asserts that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories is the cause of the escalating violence in the Middle East and denounces Israel's campaign of violence.
Titled "Not In My Name," the declaration acknowledges Israel's right to exist and its valid security concerns but compares Israel's treatment of Palestinians to the apartheid regime's oppression of South Africa's black majority.
"It becomes difficult," Ronnie Kasrils and Max Ozinsky write, "particularly from a South African perspective, not to draw parallels with the oppression experienced by Palestinians under the hand of Israel and the oppression experienced in South Africa under apartheid rule."
The document has triggered a raging debate among South Africa's 80,000 Jews [they numbered 140,000 under the Apartheid regime] that many say is unrivaled in the years since South Africans of all races went to the polls for the first time and voted to abolish apartheid. Lifelong friends have stopped speaking to one another.
Supporters and critics have fired off hundreds of letters to newspaper editorial pages, each more emotional than the last. Dinner parties have ended abruptly following terse exchanges, and Mr. Kasrils and Mr. Ozinsky have been labeled both traitors and patriots.
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