Never again?

Will Yosef Lapid be vilified over his remarks about Israeli treatment of the Palestinians in the same way that Jimmy Carter has been vilified over his book?

Mr. Lapid is a holocaust survivor, an Israeli Jew and the head of Israel's largest holocaust memorial. In comments on Israeli radio he said that the treatment of the Palestinians reminded him of the anti-Semitism in Europe prior to WWII. Surely that is worse than just comparing the same treatment to apartheid, isn't it? He went on to say:

"It was not crematoria or pogroms that made our life in the diaspora bitter before they began to kill us, but persecution, harassment, stone-throwing, damage to livelihood, intimidation, spitting and scorn...I was afraid to go to school, because of the little anti-Semites who used to lay in ambush on the way and beat us up. How is that different from a Palestinian child in Hebron?"

After being angrily criticised by Israeli settlers he went even further saying:

"When we impose upon ourselves, and rightly so, the restriction of not comparing in any way or under any condition, the behavior of Jews to the behavior of Nazis, we forget that anti-Semitism only peaked in Auschwitz...It is unthinkable for the memory of Auschwitz to serve as cause to ignore the fact that there are Jews among us who behave today towards Palestinians just like German, Hungarian, Polish and other anti-Semites behaved towards Jews."

I wait for the backlash. Maybe I'll check Little Green (American) Footballs out later. After I've taken my anti-nausea medication of course!