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Michael Lerner’s Night of Broken Glass

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/on_the_other_hand/item/michael_lerners_night_of_broken_glass_20100509

Lerner supporters, in reflecting on the vandalism and provocations of Dershowitz and others, have also invoked the imagery of Night of Broken Glass in Germany - or Kristallnacht (November 9, 1938) when thousands of Jewish shop windows , synagogues and homes were destroyed in state sanctioned violence after a Jewish student shot to death a German diplomat in Paris.

Such a comparison, is, of course, absurd. Neither Dershowitz nor any other of the Lerner/ Goldstone critics are calling for the death of either man nor for the looting and sacking of their homes and injuring others. But the far left's accusation is couched in language that they - and Michael Lerner and Richard Goldstone in particular - understand very well.

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