A few days ago some 300 Holocaust survivors placed an ad in the New York Times condemning the massacre in Gaza. My colleague from Local Call, John Brown, has selected a few of the responses on Facebook that Israelis posted in response to the ad.
I've translated a few from John's selection:
David Cohen: Those aren't Holocaust survivors those are probably collaborators with the Nazis.
Shmulik Halphon: He's invited to go back to Auschwitz.
Itzik Levy: These are survivors who were Kapos. Leftist traitors. That's why they live abroad and not in the Jewish State.
Vitali Guttman: Enough, they should die already. They survived the Holocaust only to do another Holocaust to Israel in global public opinion?
Meir Dahan: No wonder Hitler murdered 6 million Jews because of people like you you're not even Jews you're disgusting people a disgrace to humanity and so are your offspring you are trash.
Asher Solomon: It's a shame Hitler didn't finish the job.
Katy Morali: Holocaust survivors who think like this are invited to go die in the gas chambers.
Yafa Ashraf: Shitty Ashkenazis you are the Nazis.
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Ami Kaufman was chief night editor for Haaretz, for the prominent Israeli financial daily Calcalist, and correspondent on Israeli affairs for 93.6 RAM FM, a joint Palestinian-Israel radio station. His interest in food and cooking led to culinary studies at the "Israeli CIA" (Tadmor, Herzliya) and a brief stint in the restaurant business. He is a 2013 World Press Institute fellow.
Comment: Such pathology in Israel appears to be widespread: