Catherine, the sister of Dominique Hess is having trouble with the Israeli security services in getting permission to visit the country from France, because she is a member of an anti-globalization group that is pro-Palestinian. According to the Interior Ministry, which arranges visits by family members of terror victims, she was going to come on her trip accompanied by members of her group and they were worried about "provocation." According to the paper, they've given Catherine permission to come in, but not her group members -- subsequently the Hess family is postponing their trip.A woman is killed by a suicide bomber. Her own sister won't visit her grave unless she can turn it into a political statement in favor of suicide bombers.
This is the most depraved thing I have read yet. It's worse than Adam Shapiro.
What in God's name is wrong with French people? They are turning into the Stepford Wives, brainwashed by the anti-globo movement instead of suburbia.
UPDATE: Someone who was able to get the whole story instead of the translated bit I read, clued me in that Dominique is buried in France. So her sister's attempt to visit to Israel isn't related to her burial. Which makes this slightly less awful. But not much.
Actually, I know what is wrong with French people. Alain Finkielkraut laid it all out at the Anti-semitism Conference last week.
France, he claimed, has become what Albert Camus called "'a judge-penitent,' a universal moralizer whose credentials to judge everybody, everywhere, all the time, rest on the awareness of its own past and potential criminality." This zeal for moralizing has taken the form of an "obsessive remembrance that empties the universe of everything that is not Nazi or victim." The French progressive left, atoning for its colonial crimes, has identified the Palestinian as the victim par excellence, and so Israelis necessarily become Nazis and Sharon becomes Hitler. All other European nations "have done their civilizing homework except the Jews," the French left insists; only Israelis have forgotten the Holocaust. And so, with a terrible irony, the antisemitism of the French can be traced to the belief that the Jews have become "the last antisemites of the Western world."If this sounds a bit precious and pomo - his presentation was very lucid. The reporter isn't doing him justice. I hope they post the video of the conference sessions on the site soon.
Indeed, according to Finkielkraut, Israel's great crime is to be the enemy of the Other, which the post-colonial West has taken upon itself to support unquestioningly. Such an accusation represents a terrible joke on the Jewish dream of normalcy, for now Jews are singled out and doomed for not being as other as the Other.
“What Jews are blamed for nowadays is not the corruption of French or European identity but the damage and suffering they inflict on Palestinians,” he said. “They are not accused of clinging stubbornly to their Jewishness but of betraying it.”
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