Truly Despicable
This story doesn’t just blame the victim. It digs the victim up from its grave, stomps upon the remains, and then voids its bowels on the scene of the crime.
I’m sorry, but that’s exactly what it does.
A prominent German professor claimed recently that the 11 Israeli sportsmen killed during the 1972 Munich Olympics knew of the coming terror attack in advance and decided to sacrifice themselves for the sake of their country.
In a recent lecture, Prof. Arnd Krüger of the University of Göttingen, who covered the Munich Olympics as a journalist and claimed to have known some of the murdered Israeli athletes, compared the decision made by the sportsmen to stay in the Olympic village despite the known threat to their safety to the decision made by the Jews to stay in Hebron during the 1929 Palestine riots.
Krüger, reported some of the attendants in the lecture, even went as far as to suggest that the athletes knew of the impending attack and decided to stay on the premises and sacrifice themselves for the sake of Israel’s interests.
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The Israeli Embassy in Germany demanded some action be taken against him, saying his statement “is one of the worst possible ways to dehumanize Israel.”
Ilan Mor, Israel’s deputy ambassador to Germany, called the statement “a new kind of anti-Semitism, which has become more and more common in Germany, and is disguised by so-called criticism of Israel.”
Esther Roth-Shachamarov, one of the sportswomen who took part in the Munich Olympics, was stunned by Krüger’s statement.
“This is absurd. I’ve always heard about blood libels against the Jews, but now I’ve witnessed it too. It’s a little like denying the Holocaust,” she said
I can’t beat those comments, so I’ll just link to this informative article on the history of Arab pogroms against the Jews in the 1920s—a good 20-plus years before the founding of the state of Israel, may I point out superfluously.
Learn something new every day.