Cheap provocation from Israel’s United Nations envoy says Ha’aretz
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In an editorial Haaretz, Israel’s leading liberal daily, expresses its outrage at the abuse of the Holocaust by Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador at the United Nations when he donned a yellow star.
The chair of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center immediately called Erdan’s act a ‘disgrace to both Holocaust victims and Israel’.
Haaretz rightly points out that the yellow star symbolizes the weak, frightened, persecuted Jew, helpless in the face of the drawn rifles of the German soldiers and their collaborators. But this time the ones who abandoned Jews – and others – to their fate was not the world, but their own country, Israel.
The failure was not the world’s but that of Israel’s defence establishment led by “a gang of embarrassing politicians headed by an irresponsible man”.
This article was originally published by Haaretz on Wed 1 Nov 2023. Read the original here.
Cheap Provocation From Israel's United Nations Envoy
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Does this abuse of the Yellow Star and his abuse of the Holocaust amount to anti-semitism?
Whilst it is correct to call out the utter absurdity of Israel’s apologist for genocide, Gilad Erdan, for wearing a yellow star, which is forever identified with those who were victims of genocide, we should not go along with everything in the editorial.
Ha’aretz, a Zionist paper, says that ‘In the Holocaust, the Jews didn’t have a state of their own, nor did they have an army.’
Jews do not have a state of their own today either. They live in a multiplicity of states and more to the point they don’t need their own state.
It is untrue or a half-truth to say that ‘The Jews were abandoned to their fate by their neighbors, who persecuted them or turned a blind eye to what was being done to them’.
That may be true in some states such as Lithuania and Latvia but it is not true of France, Belgium Denmark to name but three. If that was true then the number of holocaust victims would have been 7 or 8 millions.
It is true that the western world, in particular the United States and Britain ‘closed its gates while it was still possible to escape the Nazis’ clutches’ what they don’t mention is that the Zionist movement was quite happy with that situation and indeed OPPOSED to Jews escaping to countries other than Palestine.
Ha’aretz states that on October 7 ‘terrified Jews burned alive in their hiding places and murdered by gunfire in their own homes’
what it fails to mention that the Jews burnt alive in their homes (& cars) were murdered by the fire from Israeli tanks, helicopters and drones because a decision had been taken that it was better to kill their own citizens rather than allow them to be taken captive. It is clear from the photos of Kibbutz Beeria that only heavy weaponry could have caused the damage that occurred.
Sorry Tony but that last paragraph is going to need backing up – can you provide a source that proves your point re idf killing Israeli civilians on Oct 7th ?
The wearing of yellow stars at the UN was disgraceful. Hamas’ and Idf atrocities can be bad on their own, no need for side to always compare to nazis.
“Ha’aretz, a Zionist paper”
@Tony Greenstein – is Haaretz really Zionist, and if so, how does that delegitimise their claims ?