I think Helen Thomas was a contemporary of Herzl, so maybe they had a chance to debate Herzl’s dream of a Jewish state in Palestine. Her comments this week have drawn an emphatic response nonetheless. Thomas, the long-time member of White House press corps, apologized yesterday.
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This makes “Kick a Jew Day” seem philo-semitic. Beyond disgusting news from the California desert:
Seven seniors at a Southern California high school were facing disciplinary action for participating in a game called “Beat the Jew” in which losers were subjected to “incineration” or “enslavement,” a school administrator said Friday.
The game involved some students playing the role of Nazis who blindfolded and dropped off other students playing Jews who must find their way back to the campus, said Sherry Johnstone, assistant superintendent of personnel for Desert Sands Unified School District.
It was not immediately clear what either punishment comprised for losing players, she said.
Seven seniors at La Quinta High School could be suspended or barred from graduation, among other measures, Johnstone said.
The odd thing is how tame the game seems, and how unrelated it was to anything that happened in the Holocaust. So where did the motivation come from to give the participants these roles and make light of the death camps?
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The Gaza-bound aid ship “Rachel Corrie” arrived Saturday at the Israeli port city of Ashdod after Israel Defense Forces soldiers boarded the ship peacefully and escorted it into Israeli territory. The move came after warnings that Israel would not allow the vessel to reach Gaza, which is under blockade by Israel, and several days after an Israel Navy takeover of another boat headed for the Hamas-ruled coastal strip ended in violent clashes and the deaths of nine passengers.
The Cambodian-flagged Rachel Corrie – named for an American college student who was crushed to death by an IDF bulldozer in 2003 while protesting Israeli house demolitions in Gaza – was carrying hundreds of tons of aid, including wheelchairs, medical supplies and cement.
An IDF spokesman said Saturday that Israeli special forces soldiers used boats to board the ship, and were not air-dropped as in the nighttime takeover of the Mavi Marmara on Monday.
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