Protesters around the world are right to condemn the Israeli militarism in the Gaza Strip - but the comparison that many are making with the 1941 - 43 Warsaw Ghetto is historically illiterate and dumb. Ambient music wiz Brian Eno, at the rally in Trafalgar Square, called for Israel to stop making, “a Warsaw ghetto in the Middle East.” Meanwhile, the Socialist Workers Party (yes, they do still exist, apparently) was handing out its latest comment on the situation…
Posted on: The Beatroot
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Using the Holocaust to beat the Israelis