Dershowitz disqualifies an entire continent from supporting BDS, citing history of ‘Jew hatred
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/06/dershowitz-disqualifies-supporting.html
The headline looks like parody, or at least gross exaggeration, but it is actually true. In a column published on the Newsmax website in March, Alan Dershowitz argued that modern-day Europeans who support BDS do so out of the same anti-Semitic fervor that their grandparents avidly displayed during the Nazi genocide of European Jewry. Dershowitz’s absurd smear is directed at the entire continent, including “the French, the Dutch, the Norwegians, the Swiss, the Belgians, the Austrians, and many other western Europeans,” as well as the Germans, “Polish, Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian.” No one is immune, not even the English, who concededly were “on the right side of the war against Nazism” but who have their own “long history of anti-Semitism, beginning with the expulsion of the Jews in 1290.” (After all,, today’s English are all great-great-great (repeat 28 times) grand-children of those late 13th century anti-Semites.)
Dershowitz begins his column by asking:
“Why are so many of the grandchildren of Nazis and Nazi collaborators who brought us the Holocaust once again declaring war on the Jews?”
This question assumes that 1) today’s European proponents of BDS are indeed grandchildren of Nazis or collaborators, rather than grandchildren of the vast majority of Europeans who were victims of Nazism; 2) present-day Europeans should be blamed for the sins of their supposed ancestors; and 3) BDS proponents are “declaring war on the Jews”. It may seem difficult for someone to cram so much dishonesty and hypocrisy into a single sentence, but Dersh is up to the task. He insists that those who today advocate for (1) an end to military occupation and control over a foreign civilian population, (2) equality for all without regard to ancestry, and (3) compliance with international law, are just carrying on the Nazis’ work. After all, didn’t the Nazis themselves stand for those same ideals?
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