Leon de Winter
The masks are not just slipping off these chosen ones; they're just taking them off; in their blind arrogance, They haven't got a clue about what it means to be human.
It's absolutely
vile; these shameless hate-filled cowards, who could barely take a punch
themselves, while advocating the likes of murder and sterilization for a people
they don't even know. Despicable racists. In every sense of the word.
By
Ali Abunimah
Electronic Intifada
November 22, 2012
Electronic Intifada
November 22, 2012
On
the night a ceasefire came into effect ending eight days of Israeli slaughter
that left 162 people, the vast majority unarmed civilians, dead
in Gaza, Dutch columnist and author Leon de Winter proposed adding chemicals to
Gaza's water supply to sterilize the population. The website PowNed reported that de Winter "made his proposal for forced eugenics yesterday evening in Amsterdam at a solidarity meeting of Dutch Jews," and that the speech by de Winter was broadcast this morning by Dutch mainstream and publicly-funded Radio 1.
PowNed said:
De Winter responded in his speech to the accusations of genocide leveled against Israel, saying that the population of Gaza had only increased over the last few years.
"Maybe we should secretly add some means of birth control to Gaza's drinking water," De Winter proceeded to propose.
The suggestion was
met with roaring laughter by the public.
Among
the participants that evening were the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands,
Hiam Devon, and the cheerful leader of the [religious ultra-conservative] SGP
party, Kees van der Staaij.
While
de Winter, known for his "humor," might have intended his suggestion
as some sort of sick joke, the reported reaction suggests that the audience
were only too ready to mock an already dehumanized population.
De Winter's comment fits neatly with Israel's racist conception of Palestinians as a "demographic threat" simply because they are not Jews.
Such genocidal comments are particularly disturbing in The Netherlands given the upsurge of Islamophobia and xenophobia in recent years, and because the country had a particularly shameful history of collaboration with the Nazis in deporting Jews to their deaths during the Second World War.
De Winter blogged until 2008 on the mainstream liberal news site Elsevier. He is also an "an adjunct fellow" at the Hudson Institute, a right-wing American think-tank.
De Winter's repulsive comment is reminiscent of a genocidal call by American "academic" and former Harvard University fellow Martin Kramer at a conference in Israel in 2010 for the "surplus" population of Gaza to be reduced by cutting off humanitarian aid.
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"Quite the contrary, which is a big surprise to me, especially since this website has strong anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant tendencies," Bugel-Shunra told The Electronic Intifada.
De Winter's comment fits neatly with Israel's racist conception of Palestinians as a "demographic threat" simply because they are not Jews.
Such genocidal comments are particularly disturbing in The Netherlands given the upsurge of Islamophobia and xenophobia in recent years, and because the country had a particularly shameful history of collaboration with the Nazis in deporting Jews to their deaths during the Second World War.
De Winter blogged until 2008 on the mainstream liberal news site Elsevier. He is also an "an adjunct fellow" at the Hudson Institute, a right-wing American think-tank.
De Winter's repulsive comment is reminiscent of a genocidal call by American "academic" and former Harvard University fellow Martin Kramer at a conference in Israel in 2010 for the "surplus" population of Gaza to be reduced by cutting off humanitarian aid.
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Daniel Bugel-Shunra, who translated the PowNed post, noted that the reader
comments below it indicated little support for de Winter's comments. 
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"Quite the contrary, which is a big surprise to me, especially since this website has strong anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant tendencies," Bugel-Shunra told The Electronic Intifada.
The use of the term "their drinking water" is a sick joke in itself: the Zionists are systematically depriving Gazans of all its drinking water.
ReplyDeleteevery time I think the Jews have reached the depths of depravity, they always manage to find baser, and even more depraved ways of shocking decent people. I think most Dutch people rise above this mindset, which is sullying their countries reputation..
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