JEWS: An interesting question from a correspondent to Norman G. Fenkkelstein.

Dear Mr Finkelstein,

03.09.2011

Dear Mr Finkelstein, My name is Jessica and I am a Canadian Muslim from Montreal, Quebec. I am writing to you for 2 reasons. First I want to deeply thank you for caring about Palestinians and their fate. It seems that you are sacrificing your entire life for this cause and I find that extremely admirable and courageous. It seems that your fellow Jews are seriously mistreating you because of what you are doing so it is our community’s duty to support you and to be there for you. We owe you immensely and can never pay you back appropriately for your work. None of us Muslims can ever have the effect that you have because our voices are considered unimportant. Last night I watched this documentary about you (American Radical) and it affected me deeply. Which brings me to the second reason for writing this email to you. I have a question to ask you. In the documentary we see you speaking in some Canadian city and this girl comes to the microphone to ask you a question and she starts crying because she thinks that the way you talk about the Holocaust is offensive etc. So you tell her that these are crocodile tears etc. What I want to know is why is it that most Jews are so emotional about the atrocities that have been done to them during the Holocaust yet they have absolutely no feelings for Palestinians who suffer just as much and generally other people’s sufferings.

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