January 07, 2009
Pining for Jews in ovens
A (rancid) taste of the rhetoric overheard at an anti-Israel rally:
[S]ome protesters ... took their rhetoric a step further, calling for the extermination of Israel — and of Jews.
[A]s the protest continued and crowds grew, one woman in a hijab began to shout curses and slurs.
"Go back to the oven," she shouted, calling for the counter-protesters to die in the manner that the Nazis used to exterminate Jews during the Holocaust.
"You need a big oven, that's what you need," she yelled.
Millions of Jews were gassed and burned in crematoria throughout Europe during Adolf Hitler's rule of Germany. The protest organizers, asked to comment on the woman's overt call for Jewish extermination, said she was "insensitive" but refused to condemn her statement.
The unidentified woman, who protest organizers said was a Muslim, wasn't the only protester who raised hackles that day. Other demonstrators held signs that said "Nuke Israel," and a number made comparisons to the Holocaust, accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.
These protesters were spewing their hatred in some Godforsaken, third-world hell hole, some Jew hating suburb of Tehran, right.
Actually, no.
Try Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on for size.
This is America?
Posted by Mike Lief at January 7, 2009 08:44 PM
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