“Violence against Jews always has mitigating elements that make the brutality understandable, if not technically legal.”
Gaza City, October 24 – Human rights groups and other standard-bearers of progressive politics will, when they finish downplaying and minimizing the evil of Hamas actions, move to doing the same for the perpetrators of the Holocaust and numerous other Second World War atrocities, a spokeswoman for a coalition of the groups announced today.
Agnes Callamard of Amnesty International told reporters that her organization and a number of allies in the human rights community have spent countless hours explaining why Palestinian violence never rises to the level that requires standalone condemnation or calling for consequences against its perpetrators, because reasons, whereas Israeli actions to prevent or defend against such violence invariably constitute war crimes of some sort. However, having achieved only partial success, the organizations have concluded that they must address the issue on a more fundamental level, and must explore why, going back at least to the Holocaust, violence against Jews always has mitigating elements that make the brutality understandable, if not technically legal.
Addressing a press conference in Paris, Ms. Callamard stated, “Seldom do our reports on Israeli criminality and Palestinian innocence make much of a lasting impact. We have determined that this stems from a basic global misunderstanding of the principles of human rights and of crimes against humanity, specifically with regard to their application when Jews are involved.”
“We believe the nascent human rights community erred in classifying certain Nazi and Nazi-collaborator actions as war crimes or crimes against humanity,” she elaborated. “It has long been clear to our own, modern human rights experts that Jews cannot, ontologically, be the victims of such crimes, but only the perpetrators, and that, disturbing as it may seem, our forebears in the human rights community wrongly applied those terms and charges to officials of the Third Reich and its allies after World War Two.”
That foundational principle has guided human rights for the last forty years, former Human Rights Watch director Ken Roth explained. “You can’t call your self a progressive, someone who cares for the dignity of every human being, if you include Jews in the category of ‘human being,'” he noted. “There are some notable exceptions, of course, for Jews who do not accept any Jewish right to self-determination, self-defense, or safety. Sometimes there are exceptions, anyway, if the decision-makers deign to make such a distinction. Which they are under no obligation to do.”
“I’m one of the good Jews, right?” he added, looking around nervously.
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