Amsterdam is a Riot: Violence Rocks Immigrant Neighborhoods
Dear Moro,
It’s awfully sweet of you to have such faith in the ability of the Germans to learn from the actions of their parents and grandparents. But these are the same Germans who, as a society, firmly believe the Palestinians are noble aborigines whose land was stolen by America (or Britain, or somebody!) to recompense the fascistic Zionists for the Holocaust… The fascistic Zionists being completely unlike the pure and innocent German Jews the horrid Nazis murdered in their wicked ignorance of the higher philosophies of non-violence always, and the Brotherhood of Mankind — except for fascists, of course.
I am at the moment editing a translation of a supplementary textbook for high school students published a few months ago by one of the German Laender (states), the thirteenth volume of a series on the history of the Jewish women in that Land during the Nazi era. This particular volume contains my grandmother’s war memoir, about her time in hiding in Amsterdam, with appendices about and/or from some of her and my mother’s protectors there and back in Germany, earlier. So I can speak with some small authority about the attitude and tone, and of course we’ve all seen the articles and cartoons in the German press about Israel, Ariel Sharon, etc.
