Reported in today's Los Angeles Times: Jewish professor William I. Robinson, of the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB), stirs furor, having sent an email, to the 80 students in his Sociology of Globalization class, that compared graphic images of Jews in the Holocaust to pictures of Palestinians during Israel's recent Gaza offensive. The email was titled "Parallel Images of Nazis and Israelis" and included more than two dozen photographs of Jewish victims of the Nazis, including some photos of dead children, next to images, from Gaza, that Robinson claims are identical. In the email, Robinson writes "Gaza is Israel's Warsaw - a vast concentration camp that confined and blockaded Palestinians" and "we are witnessing a slow-motion process of genocide" when he refers to Israel's attempts to defend its citizens from years of rocket shootings by the Hamas. Two Jewish students filed a complaint with the University but Robinson is getting the support of 100 California (of course...) professors who claim that the allegations were raised against Robinson to "silence criticism of Israeli policies and practices". Among them is UCSB's history professor, Harold Marcuse (also Jewish), that teaches about the holocaust, who said that Robinson's accusations are "well within the bounds of appropriateness on campus" and "it's something I could have used in my course".
I think that we should look at ourselves, as a people, before we accuse others of anti-semitism. Something must be very wrong if Jews make such remarks and accusations...
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