When anti-semitism needs a spell check

(Hat Tip: Richard)

Comments

[Matthew]

Finds them too Hasidic?

[Jackie]

Why does this picture not surprise me? Assuming it was shot in USA -- I believe that literacy there is in a dire state :)

[Matt]

The spelling was quite intentional, used as a way of staying within the law.

[D-Notice]

If anything, that's the problem *with* using a spell-check...

[MN]

Sir,

Although not strictly speaking the right place to comment, may I say that your article yesterday about Israel was really excellent. That said I do think it is also essential at some point to expand on the experience of Arab Jews for people to understand Israel's rightful place in the Middle East. It does seem as if it has been forgotten by most that there was a significant Jewish presence throughout the Middle East, such as Iraq, for thousands of years. Indeed it may surprise your readers to learn that as recently as the 1920’s the single largest religious group in Baghdad (if one counts Sunni and Shia separately) was Jewish. And of course that came to an end, as did the Jewish presence in Egypt, Syria, Yemen etc. as you implied following similar acts of state sponsored anti-semitism such as the confiscation of property, public executions etc. such as those that occurred in 1930s Europe and that the Middle Eastern Jews only survived, unlike those in Europe, because of the sanctuary of Israel.

Whilst writing though it is also worth highlighting that whereas these Jewish refugees who numbered some 900,000 were helped to forge new lives and were therefore forgotten, the Arab refugees who numbered some 780,000, whose numbers have since swelled to the 3 million said to exist today due to high birth rates, have been maintained as refugees for three or four generations in order to be used as political pawns in the continuing battle to destroy Israel. Most of these 900,000 settled in Israel, and so although population swaps are an uncomfortable concept, one could say that Israel came into being in much the same way as Pakistan came into being from India; and yet no one questions the right of Pakistan to exist these days.

The bottom line though is that I fear without explaining the experience of Arab Jews some may see it that the Arabs are paying for Europe’s crimes when in reality on the strength of the Arab Jews alone, Israel has a rightful place in the Middle East and prevents the region from becoming Judenrein.

Yours faithfully,
MN, London, UK

[RO]

Matt is quite right.

It's intentional and has been used before. Notice the work 'Zionist' written above it just in case people don't get it.

Matthew - that joke was in poor taste... rather like the juice.