Last night, I managed to get banned from Gawker for what I thought was a pretty simple comment on their nefariously titled post Young Jews Are Not A Fan of Obama. The post features a video in downtown Jerusalem after Barack Obama’s speech, where American Jews and Israelis share their reflection on Obama and his Middle East policy. These include “Fuck that nigger, white power!” and the kind of angry, racist sentiment that could only come from years of cultural brainwashing. I left what I thought was a relatively simple observation about the inherent hypocrisy in the displayed sentiments:
“The funny thing about these people is they have no problem invoking the Holocaust, though the people [Palestinians] a few miles across the security barrier have suffered a 60 year campaign of ethnic cleansing specifically because they aren’t Jewish.”
If anyone there had managed to watch the video that was in the middle of the post, some young Israeli/American Jew starts going off on how his grandmother was in Auschwitz, and therefore the Arabs can burn in hell (a theme repeated over the course of the video). Does no one see the obvious contradiction in some over-privileged brat referencing the Holocaust as a justification for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians? Or does this make me a raging anti-Semite?
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