Open antisemitism doesn’t harm your reputation
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Petronella Wyatt writes in the Daily Mail (11 June 2011) [via cst and hp]:
“…It is, chillingly, not such a different sentiment than the one expressed to me not long ago by a life peer.”
“As we basked in the sunshine on the House of Lords’ terrace, he said: ‘The Jews have been asking for it, and because of the atrocious way Israel behaves, we can finally say what we think.'”
“This remark is not one I ever expected to hear in this country.”
Remember what Eve Garrard heard from an academic at a formal academic dinner (13 June 2010)?
‘Bloody Jews,’ he said. ‘Bloody Jews, bugger the Jews, I’ve no sympathy for them.’
I gazed at him, aghast. Where had this suddenly come from?
The encounter I’m here describing took place very recently, in the course of a large academic dinner at a University in another city, not my own one. It was a pleasant occasion, and the people at my table were innocuously and comfortably talking about sociological issues connected with the economic crisis, all completely harmless and (relatively) uncontentious. And then I heard the academic on my right hand side say to the person opposite him, ‘Bloody Jews.’
When he saw my appalled stare, he said impatiently, ‘Oh well, I’m sorry, but really…!’
‘I’m glad you’re sorry,’ I replied politely, collecting myself together for a fight. But then he asked, ‘Are you Jewish?’ When I nodded, this academic – whom I’d met for the first time that day – put his arm around me and said, ‘I’m sorry, but really Israel is terrible, the massacres, Plan Dalet, the ethnic cleansing, they’re like the Nazis, they’re the same as the Nazis…’
much more...
https://engageonline.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/open-antisemitism-doesnt-harm-your-reputation-in-the-uk/
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