The Zurich Jewish weekly, Israelitische Wochenblatt, has lodged a complaint of anti-Semitism against the Swiss National Radio for comparing Hitler’s plans for the extermination of Jews with Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians.
The editors referred to a June 18 broadcast in which a chapter from Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” was read with the substitution of the words “Palestinian” and “Palestinian people” for “Jew” and “the Jewish nation.” They charged this was slanderous and anti-Semitic, defiled the memory of the Holocaust victims and was a direct attack on Swiss Jews.
Swiss Jews are concerned over what they perceive to be an increase in anti-Semitism following Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, particularly among young people between the ages of 15-20.
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