Hate mail

[kalian]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1126294,00.html

Jewish activists opposing the Israeli government's policies face intimidation and harassment via email and on the internet. Brian Whitaker reports.

Deborah Fink is a singer and music teacher living in London. She is also Jewish. Last month, out of the blue, she received a deluge of hateful emails - more than 150 in the space of a week.
One came from a rabbi in New York, informing her: "Your soul, my dear, is petrified and lost." Another said, menacingly: "Hitler killed the wrong Jews."

Yet another - ostensibly from a Jewish doctor of medicine in the US - elaborated on the Holocaust theme. "Too bad Hitler didn't get your family," it said. "With six million Jews dieing 60 year ago it's a shame scum like you somehow managed to survive."

What, exactly, had Ms Fink done to deserve this vitriol? The short answer is that she had been planning to sing.

Ms Fink is a member of Just Peace UK, a mainly, but not exclusively, Jewish group opposing the Israeli occupation and seeking "a viable and sovereign Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure Israel, with Jerusalem as the shared capital of both states".

Just before Christmas, she helped to organise an alternative carol concert in Trafalgar Square, at which traditional Christmas songs were sung with new words. One of them went like this:

Oh little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie.
A wall is laid where tourists stayed,
And tanks go rolling by ...

To publicise the event, the organisers sent out several hundred emails. One of them fell into the hands of Naomi Ragen, a US-born novelist and dramatist who now lives in Jerusalem, where she also writes freelance columns for the Jerusalem Post.

Ms Ragen then circulated an email of her own, which began: "I suppose it's fitting that self-hating Jews will be singing anti-Israel Christmas songs to curry favour with oh-so-genteel British anti-Semites."

Her message concluded: "I hope this will give British Jews a chance to organise a counter-campaign. If, after reading what the hate-mongers are going to be saying, you'd like to contact them, here are some addresses."

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Pretty pathetic. They sound like the repukes when us liberals
criticize shrub. Coincidence...? :shrug:

[mmm]

1. no coincidence at all

[ogminlo]

2. I am so , so tired...

Of American Zionists crying anti-Semitism every time someone criticizes the evil right wing Sharon regime. The Palestinians have been living under brand of Apartheid since Israel becmae a state.

Yes, many of the Arab countries surrounding Israel have had Isreal on a hair trigger since its inception. That does not absolve Israel of bulldozing Palestinian homes at will and stopping ambulances carrying Palestinians at roadblocks just long enough for the person inside to expire.

There are terrible crimes commmitted by both sides of the Israel/Palestinian conflict, and neither side can claim a moral high-ground. It is time for the hardline Zionists to pull their heads out of their tuchuses.

[Jim Sagle]

3. Likewise for Arafat and his regime.

[drewb]

4. Likewise...

:loveya:

[number6]

5. "Pretty pathetic." yes very

:(