Saturday, January 28, 2006

Jews not allowed to call other Jews anti-Semites here

Just in time for the Holocaust memorial service that was held in the Bundestag yesterday: A court in Frankfurt has determined that Jews are not allowed to call other Jews (who used to be good buddies, by the way) bad names here. Or at least not certain kinds of bad names. They can only be sort of bad.

Specifically, the publicist Henryk M. Broder is not allowed to call Abraham Melzer and Hajo Meyer “capacities for applied Judaism phobia” or to claim that they fill a hole in anti-Semitism with “brown filth”. He may, however, call them two Jews who “did the Adolf for the people of Leipzig ”.

Whew. I’m sure glad that that’s finally been cleared up. Could these guys be maybe a little, well, high-strung or something? I mean, jeez, what do you call fellow Jews who didn’t even used to be your buds?

“Jewish folklore” hin oder her (one way or the other), that’s certainly not what I would call good Christian behavior you guys.

So was sagt man aber nicht. Oder wenigstens nicht so laut.

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