Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 09/17/2012 - 09:04
“The way the Israeli establishment uses our history from the 1950s, is not in order to give us our rights back, but in order to get rid of the rights of the Palestinians,” Iraqi Jews say.
Israel’s new diplomatic campaign to draw attention to the forgotten plight of Jews from Arab countries is an attempt to use historical injustices to justify current injustices.
For her use of the term “Judaization,” UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing Raquel Rolink earned the drummed-up outrage of right-wing pressure group NGO Monitor, who screamed ‘antisemitism’ and demanded her resignation.