Joseph Massad’s Warsaw Ghetto Complex – by Winfield Myers
The October 2 death of Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis, is for Columbia University’s Joseph Massad yet another opportunity to equate Israelis with Nazis.
An article posted today in the Socialist Worker quotes Massad’s latest effort to belittle the Holocaust and delegitimize the modern state of Israel by claiming that contemporary Israelis are to Palestinians what the Nazis were to the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto. He even manages to sneak in some praise for the Palestine Liberation Organization back in it’s “heyday”–that would be when it was more effective at killing Israelis, one assumes. (Perhaps he has reminisced about the good old days with his Columbia colleague Rashid Khalidi, who was a PLO spokesman back in the day.)
The Socialist Worker is happy to provide the latest platform for this insidious, ahistorical comparison by raising it in the second paragraph of the piece–hardly a shock given the hard left’s rank anti-Semitism and alignment with radical Islam:
For occupied people the world over, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has long been a symbol that resistance is possible, even in the face of an overwhelming military odds. During the Israeli assault on Gaza this past January, many Palestinians saw their own struggle in parallel with the Warsaw Ghetto fighters.
Palestinian scholar Joseph Massad recalled, ‘Their uprising was always inspirational to the Palestinians. In the heyday of the PLO as a symbol of Palestinian liberation, the organization would lay flower wreathes at the Warsaw Ghetto monument to honor these fallen Jewish heroes [emphasis added].’
Such a touching story.
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Obviously Massad is a professor and so is much, much smarter than I am. For instance he knows that 3000 Jews a day died on average every day from 9-1-39 until 5-8-45. Clearly the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian deaths make their suffering the greatest crime in human history. How can the pictures of the starving emaciated children eating dirt to live just another hour tear at the human heart?
All these years I have supported Israel I have been a callous fool to not see that what Israel does each day is far, far worse than what happened in Warsaw during WWII……..
ok playtime is over.
In today’s age, facts don’t matter, only the power of your “greater” truth. In an earlier age, lying intellectual dishonesty got you fired. Today it gets you tenure.
Professor Massad, the Jews of Warsaw would have fallen on their knees for a tenth of the food Israel ships into Gaza each day. Your comment is a disgrace to the Palestinian cause and good reason for any person of conscience to doubt the intentions of any cause that uses someone who uses such obviously false comparisons to advocate their position. 95% of all Polish Jews died by the end of WWII while the Palestinian population grows every year. The comparison is contemptible.