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ewish Students Living, a trip to Poland and Israel.
Poles hurling anti-Semitic threats at
Attacked at
the
students is an almost expected part
Auschwitz."
That was the head- of the tour, and the students are told to
ignore them.
line greeting me on
This is the..first time I've heard of an
the Drudge Report
actual
physical assault. Since these were
Web site Tuesday
college-age
students and old enough to
morning.
defend
themselves,
I would think that
About 50 Jewish
"coming
to
blows"
would
be logical, and
HARRY
university students
necessary.
KI RS BAUM
were attacked by a
What's the lesson to the 9 million
Columnist
",`three-member gang
people who read the headlines in the
of French male
Drudge Report every day?
tourists," according to an Aug, 9
That a few idiots can get away with
Jerusalem Post story.
hurling
insults and assault a large group
The group of students from Poland,
of
Jews
in the shadows of a crematoria
Israel and the United States was partici-
chimney?
pating in a World Union of Jewish
Students (WUJS) summer
learning program sponsored
by the Claims Conference
for lost Jewish property and
the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee.
They were touring a model
gas chamber and crematoria
when one member of the
"gang" hurled anti-Israel and
anti-Semitic insults at them.
"He told us to go back to
Israel and said that we were
stupid and should be
An Auschwitz barracks
ashamed to walk around with
an Israeli flag," said Maya
That Jews will allow it to happen on
Ober, a Polish Jewish student who had
the same site where their ancestors were
an Israeli flag wrapped around her,
slaughtered 60 years ago?
.
according to the story.
That Jews are weak?
A second assailant then grabbed her
"These students went out there to
by the arm and wouldn't let go, she said.
learn
what is happening and, unfortu-
"I was afraid. I couldn't move and 1 did-
nately,
they learned a more practical les-
n't know what he was going to do."
son
than
we would have liked," Peleg
Details of what happened next were
not reported, but a quote from Laurence Reshef, WUJS chairperson, told the
Jerusalem Post. "The fact that someone
Weinbaum, director of research at the
could say all of these things that these
World Jewish Congress and resident
men
said at the Holocaust museum at
scholar of the group summed things up:
Auschwitz
is unthinkable."
"Violence was narrowly averted," he
Well,
think
again.
said. "But if the two sides hadn't been
It
doesn't
matter
who the assailants are
separated, it would have come to
--
French,
German,
Polish or even
blows."
Norwegian.
Think about the irony in that state-
Turning the other cheek is for the
ment.
other
guy.
Fifty Jewish intellectuals allow three
You
don't discuss, you don't ponder,
losers to verbally, then physically, assault
and
you
don't seek the high moral
them in a mock gas chamber in
ground.
Auschwitz.
When someone lays hands on a Jew
I've talked to Jewish high school stu-
in Auschwitz, Jews should lay hands on
dents who have made the trip to
them.
Auschwitz as part of the March of the
."Jewish students in Auschwitz put
Harry Kirsbaum's e-mail address is
anti-Semitic assailants in hospital."
That's more like it. ❑
hkirsbaum@thejewishnews. corn