FUCK the Christians

[Gość: Rabin]

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POLISH nation libel
March 26, 1999

"FUCK the Christians"


The following was sent by E. M., New York. QUOTE:

"Below is an article which appeared in March 26, 1999 online edition of the
Israeli newspaper "Ha''aretz". After reading the article, it leaves me wondering
if the Polish government does enough to prevent such abuse of holocaust
monuments and public/private property in Poland. If this took place in Israel,
and was done by Polish Catholic students, it would have very likely been front
page news in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Wall Street
Journal as an act of anti-you-know-what. I actually give a small amount of
credit to this newspaper for acknowledging this problem in a small way. Keep up
the good work in your fight for Polonia !

"Ha''aretz, Shots across the bow by Ha''aretz Staff

Shmulik was here

Israeli students visiting the Nazi death camps in Poland usually make a stop at
the handsome building that once housed the Lublin Sages Yeshiva, the most
important East European yeshiva of pre-Holocaust days. The building, which has
not changed in appearance since the 1930s, is today home to the Lublin
University medical school. Its spacious hall, once the yeshiva''s synagogue, is
now used for lectures, and almost every one of the benches in the hall has been
somehow marked by visiting Israelis. Rinat from Kfar Sava, for example, carved
a Star of David on one bench. Yossi from Yehud signed his name beneath the
inscription "we will not forgive and not forget". For Chaim from Tel Aviv and
Eyal from Haifa, simply autographing the benches was enough. Someone else took
the trouble to write graffiti in English, so that the Polish students would be
sure to understand it: "Fuck the Christians."

This same mix of vandalizm and phony patriotism can be found in the death camps
themselves. Treblinka''s impressive memorial site was disfigured last week by a
tripod bearing a blackened tin can, which declared in English and Hebrew "We
remember - Kiryat Haim Municipal High School, Haifa, Israel". The students from
Jerusalem whose visit I accompanied removed this eyesore. A small flag from the
Hadassah-Neurim boarding school was found on the door of a crematorium in
Auschwitz. A small Israeli flag made of plastic also adorned this doorway. In
addition, someone had placed a Rabin memorial candle in a small niche in the
wall of a Maidanek gas chamber.

When she was minister of education, Shulamit Aloni tried to initiate a public
discussion of the nature of student missions to Poland. The enraged response
silenced her immediately. Maybe we should try again. (Aryeh Dayan)""