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I'm not so sure that she does think that. The comment that Israelis act "like Nazis" is not a random one; it is of a piece with the comparison of Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto and other uses of Nazi imagery, for example, equating the Star of David with the Swastika. In reality, of course, there are no incidents of mass starvation, no rounding up of thousands of women and children to be shot, no incidents of forced labor, no transfer to death camps. This is not like Bosnia and Kosovo, where mass transfer and murder actually happened. The comparisons are not, for example, to Japanese occupying forces, to the Soviets, nor even to the Americans which is odd, since this is a trope used so often on the left. No, it is to the Nazis and only the Nazis. Why? Because this is an insult aimed at Jews and only at Jews. The boycott, again an instrument with an anti-Semitic past, is a weapon aimed at Israel for its human rights abuses by people with no connection to the Middle East, yet these same people make no such demands for countries which are far worse abusers of human rights, both those in the region or countries much nearer to home. Included in the boycott are those outside Israel who stock Israeli products and, more recently, kosher products, for their presumed "Zionism."
I'll give you a personal experience. I was once having dinner in London with two acquaintances, both journalists who worked on the Balkans. The conversation turned to a Shakespeare play then playing in London's West End. I remarked that I had seen a review of the play in the Jewish Chronicle, a paper read by many in show business for the quality of its coverage. One of the journalists, a well-known writer for a left-wing paper, looked at me as if I had vomited and muttered something about Israel's viciousness. The play had nothing to do with Israel, nor did he know the views of the reviewer whose work appeared in a British newspaper; his remark simply anti-Semitic.
