Look at the choice of headline the AP gave this story:
Jewish leaders object to Nazi imagery at rallies
Sounds like those whiny Jews complaining about anti-Semitism again, huh? Now let’s look at the lead.
The use of Nazi imagery at recent anti-Israel demonstrations across Europe has fanned the flames of anti-Semitism and incited violence against Jews, the head of Israel’s Holocaust memorial said Monday.
Protests against Israel’s Gaza offensive have included signs and slogans comparing Israeli soldiers to German troops, the Gaza Strip to the Auschwitz death camp and the Jewish Star of David to the Nazi swastika.
The protests have come amid a dramatic increase in anti-Semitic acts, including attacks on synagogues, beatings of pro-Israel demonstrators and proposed boycotts of Jewish businesses, according to the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League.
So apparently, the angle of the story is not that Jewish leaders are objecting to the imagery, but that they are charging protesters with fomenting anti-Semitic actions by using this imagery. But you can’t tell that by the headline, which ignores, gee, the first sentence of the article.
You think maybe the headline should be, oh, I dunno, something like it is in Ynet?
Jewish leaders: Nazi imagery incites violence
Because that’s what the AP article is saying. Someday, I’d really like to sit down with the main AP headline writers, and I’d like to be holding a sharp stick that I can poke them with every so often.
Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem museum and memorial, said the comparisons were “manipulative distortions of history” and called for the Holocaust to be left out of contemporary political discourse.
“It is legitimate to constructively criticize the policies of any nation, including Israel. However, the baseless use of Holocaust imagery and terminology as a weapon against Israel has incited a tangible surge of anti-Semitism,” he said. “That is the danger inherent when people cynically use the Holocaust to distort a present political conflict.”
Not that that stops the scumbags who keep using it, including my buddy Shane, who just can’t get enough of the Israel-Nazi references (and a hearty eff you to you, Shane!).
I do get rather tired of writing the same posts, over and over again. I’ll make you a promise: I’ll stop when the haters stop.
Yeah, that probably won’t be in my lifetime.