Another day, another dose of poison

Drip, drip, drip...

A flare-up of racial tension has been sparked off in France after a black stand-up comic, Dieudonné, was reported to have said that the 60th anniversary commemorations of the Holocaust were "remembrance pornography".
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Dieudonné's comment was made at a press conference in the Algerian capital, Algiers, last week and picked up by a website covering Middle Eastern affairs as "offensive to the memory of the Holocaust". Dieudonné held a press conference in Paris at the weekend in which he attempted to explain his views.

Now get this:

"I criticised the hype of Holocaust commemoration," he told the press conference. However, he stopped far short of his comments in Algeria last week: "The Zionists have a kind of impunity. For them, if a child at school is called a dirty Jew, they are up in arms. To me, Zionism is the Aids of Judaism. For people like me, it is different. We feel the Zionist lobby has claimed a monopoly of suffering."

Despite his attempts to calm spirits, Dieudonné met with widespread condemnation. The Socialist party's first secretary, François Hollande, and a former anti-racism campaigner, Harlem Désir, described the comedian as "the biggest anti-Semite in France'' and called for a boycott of his shows.

Every week; practically every day. All that fuss, hey, about a few million dead; and more than fifty years ago; and the 'AIDS of Judaism'. Still, what the hell, there are all those voices of careful, eminently reasonable, people who think that worries about anti-Semitism are just a bit exaggerated.

Never again. Yeah, except next time. And indeed always, because one of the things that has to be learned, and constantly re-learned, is that there will ever be such voices: of those unwilling to stand up, to speak out.