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Related: About this forumIsraeli celebrity says she enjoyed video of IDF attacking Dane because he looked like a Nazi
Author and talk-show celebrity Irit Linur explained how pleased she was to see the Israeli officer slam the butt of his rifle into the face of the (unarmed, nonviolent) Danish peace activist. She said his golden hair made him look like a member of the Hitlerjugend, and said about him and other activists: "they were born anti-Semites and will die anti-Semites" - a shameful slander, especially considering what the Danes, whose underground was granted a blanket designation as Righteous Among the Nations for their efforts during World War II to rescue the Danish Jews. (my emphasis /GM)
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http://mondoweiss.net/2012/04/israeli-celebrity-says-she-enjoyed-video-of-idf-attacking-danish-activist-because-he-looked-like-a-nazi.html
Crunchy Frog
(26,574 posts)Or does this represent mainstream Israeli sentiment?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)blue eyed blondes in her mind or what?
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)kind of like the Nazi version of gaydar. You can just tell, don't ask me to explain it.
Some people have such good naydar they can detect Nazis anywhere, and they usually do. British writer Howard Jacobson, for example, could detect a Nazi even if he wrapped his Iron Cross in a condom and stuffed it up his arse. Reading his latest book (the Finkler Question) he portrays London as a city where Kristallnacht looms on every page, but then again he generally does. Amazing that he still finds the strength to continue living there, frankly.
I only read the bloody thing because it won the Booker prize. Fuck me, they are handing out the Booker to some shite books lately.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)I wonder did his head spin too?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)I thought him to be a scrawny for a Hitlerjugend, whom I always saw depicted in newsreels as being a bit more strapping and fit than this kid looked to me
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)Remember, this is just your rank and file Hitlerjugend...the ones that they had on newsreels and Leni Riefenstahl documentaries were the cream of the crop. Off camera though, the rest of them had as many bad teeth and pock marks as the rest of us.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)It's funny how critical they are of MEMRI for doing the same thing they do so regularly (as is exemplified here).
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)I've read a few critiques of her words and Mondoweisse's is one of the milder ones
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Ben Ari was barred from entering the US due to ties to rightwing terrorist groups in Israel