[wvns] Tutu Compares Israel To Hitler, Blasts "Jewish Lobby";
Tutu Compares Israel To Hitler, Blasts "Jewish Lobby"
http://www.zoa.org/2002/04/tutu_compares_i.htm
NEW YORK - The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging Jewish
allies of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu to publicly protest
Tutu's latest anti-Jewish and anti-Israel slurs.
* Tutu accused Jews of exhibiting "an arrogance—the arrogance of power
because Jews are a powerful lobby in this land and all kinds of people
woo their support." (Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily News Bulletin,
Nov. 29, 1984)
* Tutu complained about "the Jewish monopoly of the Holocaust."
(Jerusalem Post, July 26, 1985)
* During his 1989 visit to Israel, Tutu "urged Israelis to forgive the
Nazis for the Holocaust" (Jerusalem Post, Dec. 31, 1989), a statement
which the Simon Wiesenthal Center called "a gratuitous insult to Jews
and victims of Nazism everywhere." During the visit, Tutu remarked:
"If I'm accused of being antisemitic, tough luck," and in response to
questions about his anti-Jewish bias, Tutu replied, "My dentist's name
is Dr. Cohen." (Simon Wiesenthal Center's Response, January 1990)
* Tutu has claimed that Zionism has "very many parallels with racism."
(American Jewish Year Book 1988, p.50)
* Speaking in a Connecticut church in 1984, Tutu said that "the Jews
thought they had a monopoly on God; Jesus was angry that they could
shut out other human beings." In the same speech, he compared the
features of the ancient Holy Temple in Jerusalem to the features of
the apartheid system in South Africa. (Hartford Courant, Oct. 29, 1984)
* In conversations during the 1980s with the Israeli ambassador to
South Africa, Eliahu Lankin, Tutu "refused to call Israel by its name,
he kept referring to it as Palestine." (Simon Wiesenthal Center's
Response, January 1990)
* Asked about the Zionism-is-racism resolution, Tutu complained that
"the Jewish people with their traditions, religion and long history of
persecution sometimes appear to have caused a refugee problem among
others." (South African Zionist Record, July 26, 1985)
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The Jewish Inquisition and Desmond Tutu‏
From: thorsprovoni @ aol.com
Sent: Fri 10/05/07
The inquisitors focus on the penultimate paragraph of the speech.
Here is the version on the FOSNA website
(http://www.fosna.org/conferences_and_trips/documents/2002_boston_tutu_keynote.pdf).
People are scared in this country to say wrong is wrong.
(applause) Because the Jewish lobby is powerful – very powerful. Ha,
Ha, Ha ha! So what? So what! This is God's world! For goodness sake
this is God's world! The Apartheid government was very powerful, but
we said to them: Watch it! If you flout the laws of this universe,
you're going to bite the dust! (applause) Hitler was powerful.
Mussolini was powerful. Stalin was powerful. Idi Amin was powerful.
Pinochet was powerful. The Apartheid government were powerful.
Milosevic was powerful. But, this is God's world. A lie, injustice,
oppression, those will never prevail in the world of this God. That
is what we told our people. And we used to say: those ones, they have
already lost, they are, they are going to bite the dust one day. We
may not be around. An unjust Israeli government, however powerful,
will fall in the world of this kind of God. Because we don't want for
that to happen but those who are powerful have to remember the litmus
test that God gives to the powerful – what is your treatment of the
poor, the hungry? What is your treatment of the vulnerable, the
voiceless? And on the basis of that, God passes God's judgment.
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Here is the Guardian version
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,706878,00.html).
People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong
because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. Well, so what?
For goodness sake, this is God's world! We live in a moral universe.
The apartheid government was very powerful, but today it no longer
exists. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin
were all powerful, but in the end they bit the dust.
Not only is there definitely an implicit comparison of the Apartheid
government with Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and
Idi Amin, but Tutu did mention the Israeli government later in the
paragraph in the FOSNA version. Yet he seemed to be putting Israel
into a different category entirely by implying that the Israeli
government unlike the Apartheid government could either be just or unjust.
I doubt any member of the audience took Tutu's words as an equation of
the Jewish lobby or the Jewish people or Israel with Hitler. I
certainly did not.
As I remember my conversation with him afterwards, I suggested that
using a Zionist concept like the Jewish people and equating it with
religious terms like People of Israel (am yisrael) will only
strengthen the Jewish -- I probably said Israel -- lobby. Phrases
like God's people the Israeli Jews or like God's people the
Palestinian Arabs take a very easily understood conflict between
European colonists and the native population and appear to turn it
into a religious issue of competing covenantal relationships. The
Archbishop felt that applying religious ideals would help resolve the
conflict.
He probably should have recited the Book of Micah Chapter 3 to the
audience.
1. And I said: Hearken now, you heads of Jacob and officers of the
house of Israel! Is it not incumbent upon you to know the judgment?
2. Those who hate good and love evil-who rob their skin from upon them
and their flesh from upon their bones,
3. and who ate the flesh of My people and flayed their skin from upon
them, and opened their bones and broke them, as in a pot, and like
meat within a cauldron
4. then they shall cry out to the Lord, but He shall not respond to
them; and He shall hide His countenance from them at that time, as
they wrought evil with their works.
5. So said the Lord concerning the prophets who mislead my people, who
bite with their teeth and herald peace, but concerning whomever does
not give into their mouth, they prepare war.
6. Therefore, it shall be night for you because of the vision, and it
shall be dark for you because of the divination, and the sun shall set
on the prophets, and the day shall be darkened about them.
7. And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners shall be
disgraced, and they shall all cover their upper lips, for it is not a
statement of God.
8. But I am truly full of strength from the spirit of the Lord and
justice and might, to tell Jacob his transgression and Israel his sin.
9. Hearken now to this, you heads of the house of Jacob and you rulers
of the house of Israel, who condemn justice and pervert all that is
straight.
10. Each one builds Zion with blood and Jerusalem with injustice.
11. Its heads judge for bribes, and its priests teach for a price; and
its prophets divine for money, and they rely on the Lord, saying, "Is
not the Lord in our midst? No evil shall befall us."
12. Therefore, because of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the Temple Mount like the high
places of a forest.
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