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| JEWISH STUDENTS ATTACKED AT AUSCHWITZ (not a typo) |
| 2004-08-09 |
| While on a tour of the museum at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland on Sunday, a group of around 50 Jewish university students from Israel, the U.S. and Poland were verbally attacked by a three-member gang of French male tourists. Mohammedans or the bastard descendants of SS deserters? I bet on the latter, Israel News probably wouldn't cover for moose-limbs. Evidently incited by the presence of an Israeli flag wrapped around the shoulders of Tamar Schuri, an Israeli student from Ben Gurion University, the first assailant ran at the group while its members were being guided through a model gas chamber and crematoria and began swearing and hurling anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli insults. "He told us to go back to Israel and said that we were stupid and should be ashamed to walk around with an Israeli flag," testifies Maya Ober, a 21-year-old Polish student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan and member of the Polish Union of Jewish Students (PUSZ), which organized the 16-day summer learning program along with the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS). After the initial altercation, a second assailant grabbed Ober by the arm. "One of the guys held me by the arm and wouldn't let go," says Ober, who lost several members of her family at Auschwitz. "I was afraid. I couldn't move and I didn't know what he was going to do. I was shocked. Although I have met anti-Semitism many times, I never expected to meet it at Auschwitz, where so many of my relatives were killed," she says she spoke to the assailants in French and that in addition to being "brutish and vulgar," their sentiments "made absolutely no sense." That narrows it quite a bit, NOT! "Violence was narrowly averted," adds Laurence Weinbaum, Director of Research at the World Jewish Congress and resident scholar for the group, who says the Polish police were not notified of the incident because the assailants did not commit an actual crime. Desecrating a memorial, verbal assault and disturbing the peace are not illegal on Poland? I think otherwise. "But, if the two sides hadn't been separated, it would have come to blows." I hereby invite these neo-Vichyites to try it here in Texas. Weinbaum, who has been to Poland more than 30 times on educational tours, says he never before saw anything like what happened, happen. "It was simply shocking," he says. "In some way, I felt that these men were satisfied to visit Auschwitz. This was another reminder that in Western Europe there is sympathy for dead Jews; it's just the live ones that they cannot tolerate." "This event shocked me," adds 24-year-old tour participant Yigael Ben-Natan from Zichron Yaacov, a recent graduate from the University of Haifa. "But, it bought into focus a small part of what it's like to be a Jew in the Diaspora today and a little bit about what it was like to be a Jew in the Diaspora during the Holocaust. "Auschwitz is a place where everyone who visits shows a certain degree of respect," he says. "These people's total disregard for the feelings of the people who come here, especially the Jews who come here to mourn, is horrible. But, I suppose some people don't come to mourn; some people come for completely different reason, which we cannot completely comprehend." The students on the tour, which came as part of a year-long educational project funded by the Claims Conference for Lost Jewish Property and the JDC, gathered together in Poland to learn about the history of its Jewish community, to participate in the revival of the country's contemporary Jewish community by strengthening its ties to Israel and the American Diaspora and to work to restore the Jewish cemetery near Krakow, Czchow, which unlike the neighboring Christian cemetery, hasn't been properly maintained since the Holocaust. The crowd would have been justified in beating these punks to a bloody pulp, if not worse. If they had, however, Reuters, Al-Jazeerah and every other enemy propaganda outlet on the planet would have "Jewish mob lynches French tourists!" as their lead story, probably for weeks. They would go on to explain that the innocent Frenchmen were there to show solidarity with Holocaust victims but were instead set upon by Zionazi ingrates. The students did the right thing but, again, I want to see the frog-nazis try this in Texas. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #3 I'd like to suggest jumping up and down on the (putative) spines of these @ssholes. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-08-09 22:17 |
| #2 "But, if the two sides hadn’t been separated, it would have come to blows." ummm . . . 50 vs 3? Would have been a short altercation. |
| Posted by: spiffo 2004-08-09 21:28 |
| #1 I want to see the frog-nazis try this in Texas. I think there is actually a decent chance of something like this happening to US citizens in Greece during the Olympics. |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2004-08-09 21:23 |