 May 2002
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Thinking About Anti-Jewish Sentiments Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, of Yale University has focused his email list in recent weeks on the unfolding catstrophe in Palestine. To subscribe: mazin-qumsiyeh-subscribe@yahoogroups.com I have been thinking about the rising anti-Jewish sentiments in France and across the globe that seem proportional to the rising oppression and slaughter of the Palestinians in the occupied territories (both are rightly condemned by all human rights groups). I have many thoughts on this and I have written some down to appear in an upcoming book I am working on. But due to time constraints (mine and yours), I am just going to make one point.
Spreading the lies of this connectedness between Judaism, one of the world's three great monotheistic religions, and the abomination of Zionist colonialist adventures has endangered Jews around the world, especially in Israel. All this is done in order to benefit an imperial colonial interest over the past 100 years. While many Jews protested this regularly, there has been a majority of world Jews both outside and inside the state of Israel who remained quiet/neutral. It is time to remember the many righteous Germans who shielded Jews, and the many who stood silent... At the worst moments in history, good people shine the best and evil shows all its cards. Today, the Israeli army cut off water to Ramallah and corpses are decomposing as the army prevents the media, the medics, and internationals from getting to them in both Ramallah and Bethlehem. Summary executions are common and there are hundreds of dissappearances (men taken and no one knows where they are). Food has run out in many places that are besieged.
Never again? 
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