Did the IRA charter call for all Protestants to be killed?
From Hamas:
“The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: ‘The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!’
Hamas, as an organisation, is one devoted to killing and genocide - not goals I would ever agree with, and I strongly suspect that Jeremy Corbyn wouldn't agree with, either.
However, those people that do agree are never going to be moved from that position by being ostracised for holding it - if no-one speaks to them, they will never see another side of the debate.
My friends are lifelong socialists. They can remember fleeing Europe - the wife lost most of her family to the Holocaust - and now they feel they may have to do so again. Why are their fears and those of the Jewish community not being listened to?
I don't personally know anyone that went through that, so I lack that personalised perspective. However, I'm not aware that anyone's not listening to them, but their perspective is only one view on the situation.
None of the commentators I have linked to -or my Jewish friends - thinks that the Holocaust is some kind of get-out-of-jail-free card for Israel. Why bring that into it?
Because it remains the defining feature of modern Jewish thought - understandably. They are the people for whom 'never again' holds more meaning that any other, and the Holocaust is something that colours their outlook. I don't say that pejoratively, as a nation Britain is still to an extent defined by the events of the Second World War, and our image of ourselves as bravely standing alone and winning against Hitler.
The occupation of Palestinian territories, the creation of the Jewish state, the implication that the election of a given politician will result in Jewish people needing to flee are all a result of the Holocaust and its cultural impact.
O.
