MK Haneen Zoabi (Joint Arab List) on Sunday delivered the keynote speech in Amsterdam, comparing the “night of broken glass” against Jews in in Germany, 77 years ago Monday, with the violence perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians.
“I am honored to speak on behalf of the victims of Kristallnacht, and on behalf of all victims of racism and oppression,” Zoabi declared, moving swiftly—as was to be expected—to “I have the honor of speaking on behalf of the Jewish opposition and on behalf of all Jews who oppose oppression throughout their lives,” which slid down a slippery, vile slope to “Most Israelis today believe that the Jewish Zionist values are more important than democracy,” and so “It is easy to notice the gradual moral descent that reminds us of Germany during the 1930s.”
Then she made the clear connection between the government sponsored, mass pogrom that erupted against thousands of Jews in one night, to the fact that “when in Israel two churches and tens of mosques are burned; and hundreds of Israeli supporters of Beitar shout ‘death to the Arabs’ after each soccer match; when a family is burned to death; when a 15-year-old boy is burned to death, the majority keeps quiet, although they are perhaps shocked.” And so, mixing lies and half truths, Zoabi managed to fulfill the worst nightmare of every Jew, that a hater of Israel would use against us the very tears we shed over our dead.
The annual Kristallnacht commemoration Platform in previous years was never used to attack Israel, because the organizers in previous years had the good sense not to attack Jews on the day commemorating attacks on Jews. That’s over, since the Centraal Joods Overleg (Central Jewish Board) in the Netherlands is running its own commemoration, the organizers of this year’s ceremony at the monument of Jewish resistance, behind the Amsterdam town hall, Nederlands Palestina Komitee, are having their way with the Jews again, except they call them “Israelis.”
Zoabi’s speech was heckled a few times and her mic was cut off for a short time, according to Ynet. But she received more applause than boos. She received roaring applause when she introduced herself, “I’m Haneen Zoabi, I’m one of the 120,000 that Israel didn’t expel from their homeland, Palestine, in 1948.” Of course, since she was born on May 23, 1969, Israel didn’t expel her because she was an Israeli citizen, in the only democracy Arabs enjoy anywhere east of the Dardanelles.