JVJP must do soul searching regarding Jews

Gary Selikow

A prominent JVJP member seemingly openly supports Hamas’ killing of Israeli women and children, calling it “resistance”. He also denies that Hamas is a terrorist organisation and that it engages in racist abuse against Israelis as a nation.

It is sickening that the JVJP can compare themselves to Germans who opposed the Third Reich. They need to look at Judenrat (Jewish Council) and kapos (a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp assigned by the SS to supervise forced labour) to find a better analogy for themselves.

One of the most unfortunate developments in the exile was the loathsome moser (informer), the negative counterpart of the shtadlan (intercessor) who intercedes with the authorities who speak for the Jews to those in power.

The Jewish community was always hostile to its unhappiest members who stood to gain by serving the powers-that-be.

Denis Prager points out: “Among no group in the world are there so many individuals who so single-mindedly attempt to damage the group into which they were born.”

These Jews also seem to hope that by showing “pathological hate” of their fellow Jews in Israel, their friends and colleagues at work and on campus will like them again.

What they need to remember is that singling out a particular nation for hatred, makes them racists.

Johannesburg