Kudos, to you, sir, and keep up the good works.

Jerry’s story of the baal koreh reminds me of the midrash about sinat chinum which destroyed the Temple: pointless hatred between brothers which so weakens the Jewish fabric that the community is destroyed.

I don’t think Zhu Bajie is right that the reference to ‘traitors’ is to Roehm’s and other blackshirts murder. They weren’t considered traitors but dangerous radicals whose ‘anti-capitalism’ (in the eyes of the industrialists and army chiefs) would endanger the Nazi project. I think the reference is more sinister - to the placing of socialists, trade unionists and other anti-fascist Germans in Dachau etc., where of course most were murdered. They were the traitors because they were seen as internationalists and therefore traitors to the Volk.

By coincidence, I sued The Times in London for defamation earlier this year and the settlement has just been agreed, which involves agreed damages paid to the Palestinian Friends of Bir Zeit University charity and an apology on the link below.
http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/tony-greenstein.html

Some may think this an attack on free speech but I would disagree. The accusation, totally false, that I have spent most of my life intimidating and harassing Jewish students, i.e. that I am anti-Semitic, is designed to close down free speech. Numerous times when having been invited to speak on campus the allegation that I am ‘anti-Semitic’ is raised. This is a way of closing off this particular attack.

Anyway well done!

Tony Greenstein

Only he is too modest to tell such stories — and I am deeply ashamed to have to repeat them.

Jerry

Perhaps she refers to “The Night of the Long Knives” when Hitler had rival Nazis murdered.

Zhu Bajie