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Thread #149360   Message #3498692
Posted By: MGM·Lion
04-Apr-13 - 08:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: Israel condemned by UN
Subject: RE: BS: Israel condemned by UN
"God Almighty! Would you Israeli apologists like to tell us how much of the English language we are still allowed to use without ruffling your super sensitive feathers?"

Thin ice, Don! Remember that the following statement

"it is recognised that trying to equate Israel with Nazi crimes identifies an antisemite"

is from an EU body, the EUMC [European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism & Xenophobia], not from any organisation with any sort of Jewish bias. "Holocaust" is not a term to be used in this context, as Bobad notes above that I have pointed out on more than one occasion previously. It is a word with emotional overtones which one does not need 'super-sensitive feathers' to be 'ruffled' in order to recognise. I am, frankly, astonished & disappointed at your having employed it. Not what I should have expected of you. And as for the insufferably inappropriate tone of offended resentment in the response from you which opens this post...!

~M~