Norman Finkelstein | Middle East | Palestine
During your speech you made a lot of references to Jewish people as well as certain people in the audience, not Jewish people in general, but especially in the audience - to Nazis. That is extremely offensive to certain people who are German and also extremely offensive who actually suffered under Nazi war.
I don’t respect that any more, I really don’t. I don’t like and I don’t respect the crocodile tears [interruptions] the crocodile tears [clapping and cries from audience]. Listen sir. Allow me to finish.
I don’t like to play to a foreign audience the Holocaust part but since now I feel compelled to - my late father was in Auschwitz, my late mother [...] Please, shut-up! [applause]. My late father was in Auschwitz my late mother was in Mgdonevice concentration camp - every single member of my family on both sides were exterminated, both my parents were in the Warsaw Ghetto. They taught me and my two siblings that I will not be silenced by Israel over their crimes against Palestinians.
I consider nothing more despicable than to use their suffering and their martyrdom to try to justify the torture the brutalization and the demolition of homes commits against the Palestinians.
I refuse any more to be intimidated to be browbeaten by the tears. If you had any heart in you, you’d be crying for the Palestinians.
