If Finkelstein were an advocate for better policing of Jewish charities, that would be wonderful!
Of course this would have absolutely nothing to help the Palestinian cause, as there are plenty more corrupt Muslim and Christian organizations than Jewish ones, by simple virtue of the relative size of Muslim and Christian populations.
No, my objection is to the idea that memorializing the Holocaust has somehow been misused to create sympathy for the Jewish state. For me -- and the vast majority of the world's Jews -- it's patently obvious that the Holocaust DOES demonstrate the need for a Jewish state, as only a Jewish state can be counted on to rescue Jews threatened by the next Hitler.
Of course, a vocal minority of Jews object to a Jewish state, and as one of those you are perfectly free to have that opinion. Only I hope that should the unthinkable happen again, you will not be one of those who impeded the rescue of Jews as did some Jews in America and around the world during WWII.
If Finkelstein were an advocate for better policing of Jewish charities, that would be wonderful!
Of course this would have absolutely nothing to help the Palestinian cause, as there are plenty more corrupt Muslim and Christian organizations than Jewish ones, by simple virtue of the relative size of Muslim and Christian populations.
No, my objection is to the idea that memorializing the Holocaust has somehow been misused to create sympathy for the Jewish state. For me -- and the vast majority of the world's Jews -- it's patently obvious that the Holocaust DOES demonstrate the need for a Jewish state, as only a Jewish state can be counted on to rescue Jews threatened by the next Hitler.
Of course, a vocal minority of Jews object to a Jewish state, and as one of those you are perfectly free to have that opinion. Only I hope that should the unthinkable happen again, you will not be one of those who impeded the rescue of Jews as did some Jews in America and around the world during WWII.