Reply #59: That analogy SO doesn't work

[Ken Burch]

1)The orchestra played VOLUNTARILY for the Holocaust survivors. They weren't forced to play by the IDF at gunpoint.
2)The idea of the concert was to say that Palestinians acknowledge
a)that the Holocaust did, in fact happened(I would assume that all decent Palestinians, like all decent people everywhere, would acknowledge this)

b)that Palestinians, as people who have suffered, stand in solidarity with others who have suffered.

I hope you aren't going to argue that the fact that the survivors are now Israeli somehow negates their suffering, or that this particular group of survivors is personally responsible for the Nakba. Those people may not even have been(originally at leasts)Zionists(most Jews weren't until at least 1948 and many not until 1967).

This concert was an attempt to bridge a gap that doesn't need to be there. There's never been a justification for Holocaust denial among those who back the Palestinian cause, any more than among any other group. You don't need to deny that Hitler tried to wipe out the Jews in order to make the point that Hitler's project DOES NOT justify what's been done to the Palestinians.

The concert was a good thing, and harmed no one. Why should anyone have been punished for it?