Did Benyamin Netanyahu play the Holocaust card when he pointed out Elie Wiesel in the audience during his address to Congress? Jeremy Bowen of the BBC thinks so. He as much as said so in this tweet:
#NetanyahuSpeech He acknowledges Elie Wiesel in audience. Once again Netanyahu plays the holocaust card. don’t repeat mistakes of the past
— Jeremy Bowen (@BowenBBC) March 3, 2015
And after he was accused of anti-Semitism for tweeting that thought, he defended himself with this tweet:
Have been reading some recent tweets sent my way. Suggestions I’m an anti semite, or a denier of the Holocaust, are untrue and offensive.
— Jeremy Bowen (@BowenBBC) March 4, 2015
So here’s what I think. Damn STRAIGHT Bibi played the Holocaust card. And he damned well has a RIGHT to do exactly that, as does every Jew everywhere FOREVER.
It happened, the Holocaust. It happened to US. Europe did it to us, while no one gave a damn.
No one bombed the train tracks to Auschwitz. The Brits didn’t ease Jewish immigration into Palestine, the Jews’ INDIGENOUS HOMELAND; and the New York Times did the best it could to relegate news of the slaughter to the back pages of the paper sandwiched between the flotsam and jetsam of inconsequential news pieces no one ever read or cared about.
And so get used to it, Mr. Bowen: every time a despot threatens to annihilate the Jewish people we are going to play the Holocaust card. We’re going to play it with everything we’ve got and we’re NEVER going to shy away from playing that card.
That card is our BIRTHRIGHT. It’s our heritage. And when once again Europe doesn’t give a fig about the Jews, we are damned well going to remind you what evils you are capable of perpetrating against our people if we sit back and let you.
But this time, NO. We’re NOT going to let you. Not you. Not your country, and not the whole of the entire European Union.
Now last time around, Hitler got in real cozy with Mussolini and also with El Husseini. If this time Europe gets in cozy with its Muslim masses and closes its eyes to the particularity of the particular slaughter going on in Paris and the anti-Semitism that is now widespread in Germany, Belgium, France, Denmark, and yes, Britain, we are damned well going to play the Holocaust card.
Yes. We will. Forever.
We have earned that right.
But just to offer you some variety, we may decide to alternate that card with various other cards, for instance the blood libel card, the Spanish Inquisition card, or perhaps even the Chmielnicki card, though the latter may be a bit more difficult for you, Jeremy, to pronounce.
But the Holocaust card? We OWN that card. Forever.
And we get to use it whenever we wish. Which is whenever we need it. Which is like NOW.
Which is somewhat your fault, Jeremy, being as you are YES, someone who lives in EUROPE.
So I hope we’ve cleared that up for you, Jeremy: the card thing. The Holocaust. Who owns it. Who gets to use it when.
That would be us. Forever.
Capisce?
This blog is dedicated to the memory of my dear friend Ira Kurtz, z”l who never shied away from speaking the truth about those who would annihilate the Jews. Ira would have called Bowen out on his very obvious antisemitism, had he not passed away on the eve of Purim, of a sudden heart attack. Rest in peace, dear Ira.
