50 vs. 3

[DanaC]

Sometimes I think people have difficulty differentiating between their feelings towards the Israeli state or political zionism in individuals and their attitude to the Jewish diaspora as a whole. The comments the three made sounded to me more like they were angry with Israel than with the people themselves as Jews. Unfortunately they chose to express their anger towards people who were paying their respects to the long dead victims of genocide and as such their vitriol was at best misplaced and at worst revoltingly insensitive. The fact that they were at Aushwitz at all makes me wonder if they are less anti semitic and more anti Israel...Their anger at the wearing of the Israeli flag may have been someone feling offended at the political entity of Israel laying claim to all grief for the holocaust. We do not even know the ethnic or religious identity of the three Frenchmen. For all we know they could be politically left wing anti right -wing -zionist french Jews.