Palestinian lives “Not of the same order” – Chief Rabbi of France
JVL Introduction
Just when you think the depravity of Israel’s defenders has reached rock bottom, along comes the Chief Rabbi of France, Haim Korsia, justifying the Gaza massacres in terms that chill the blood.
In response to a French TV interviewer asking if he condemned the massacres in Gaza as he did the Israeli deaths on 7 October, Korsia said: “They are not of the same order.”
Palestinian lives – of fathers, mothers, old people, teenagers, children, infants – are “not of the same order” as Israeli lives. They do not weigh as much in the scale of humanity. They can be discounted.
How much longer can politicians and pundits in the UK, Europe and America go on defending Israel with hypocritical babble about shared values, resisting terror, facing up to Iran, Hizbollah, the Houthis and so on, and on and on? This impunity has to end.
We are grateful to Middle East Eye for permission to publish their report.
Horsia’s interview on French TV can be viewed here.
NWI
This article was originally published by Middle East Eye on Tue 27 Aug 2024. Read the original here.
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Good piece on channel 4 news yesterday evening about the West Bank:
https://youtu.be/TMFeQeQ4S88?si=wppDYcGFC5XruwZA
On the issue of racism and religion, France’s Chief Rabbi’s positions bear comparison with the UK’s Ephraim Mirvis.
During Israel’s 2014 bombardment of Gaza killing 2,200 – 551 were children, Mirvis egged on the process in an interview with the Times stating
“Israel has no choice but to use force in Gaza, says chief rabbi”
Mirvis is also cited in the Telegraph and Jewish Chronicle as supporting applying the Tebbit-test to minorities – questioning their British whereas if anyone questions his support for colonialism and apartheid its supposedly anti-Semitism?
Whereas numerous Popes, Archbishops of Canterbury, and the largest Protestant Church in the US have apologised for Slavery, Mirvis is infamous for so far pointedly omitting to apologise.
Times “Israel has no choice but to use force in Gaza, says chief rabbi”
https://www.thetimes.com/article/israel-has-no-choice-but-to-use-force-in-gaza-says-chief-rabbi-s6ld2p3kcsb
Jewish Chronicle – “Mirvis: ‘Pass Tebbit test'”
https://www.thejc.com/news/mirvis-pass-tebbit-test-th4kz076
The Telegraph – “Minorities must ‘pass the Norman Tebbit test’ – Chief Rabbi”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12189152/Minorities-must-pass-the-Norman-Tebbit-test-Chief-Rabbi.html
Consequentially it sounds to me like antisemitism although those who speak that way would be horrified at the accusation. You can’t get much more Jewish in most peoples’ eyes than a chief rabbi. It will seem to many that such religious officialdom speaks for all adherents, with the inference that the latter support the genocide. Antisemites, who never need a reason to voice or act out their hate, can now parade this virtual self-incrimination to justify another burst of it. Thus can loose talk from so-called community leaders, religious and secular, make their congregations and communities falsely complicit. They remind me of the Rathausen in the Shoah.