Jun 9, 2014
The Terrible Spectre of the Dreadful Few
So why does this bother me so much?
FROM: Paul Eisen
http://pauleisen.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/so-why-does-this-bother-me-so-much.html
Monday, 9 June 2014
So why does this bother me so much?
In the days when I used to attend solidarity rallies, sometimes, amongst the Christians, lefties and good Jews there'd be a sprinkling of Muslim kids wearing suicide bomber headbands.
"Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!" clucked all the grey-haired do-gooders and sometimes one of the good Jews would deliver a helpful lecture to the kids, outlining to them what was helpful and what was not.
But I said nothing.
A couple of years later when I came into contact with Ingrid Zuendel, I visited her Zundelsite and came across what are commonly described as anti-semitic cartoons. You know the type - Golem-type figures with stereotypical Ashkenazic features engaged in all kinds of nefarious practices. ""Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!" I clucked to myself and even began to compose an email to Ingrid giving her the benefit of my experience of what was helpful and what was not.
But I didn't. Again, I said nothing.
On both occasions I said nothing because in my head echoed words I'd picked up at a Marc Ellis lecture sometime previously, words which chimed well with my own feelings on the subject: "It is not for the oppressor to tell the oppressed how to resist".
So why does this bother me so much?
(Answers to: pauleisen.blogspot@hotmail.co.uk)
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