The Olympic Committee Seems To Think That Jewish Blood Is Cheap

kohenari:

Deborah Lipstadt doesn’t pull any punches in her piece about the controversy that erupted this year over a moment of silence to remember the Israeli Olympic athletes murdered in Munich in 1972:

The athletes who were murdered were from Israel and were Jews—that is why they aren’t being remembered. The only conclusion one can draw is that Jewish blood is cheap, too cheap to risk upsetting a bloc of Arab nations and other countries that oppose Israel and its policies.

I have long inveighed against the tendency of some Jews to see anti-Semitism behind every action that is critical of Israel or of Jews. In recent years some Jews have been inclined to hurl accusations of anti-Semitism even when they are entirely inappropriate. By repeatedly crying out, they risk making others stop listening—especially when the cry is true.

Here the charge is absolutely accurate. This was the greatest tragedy to ever occur during the Olympic Games. Yet the IOC has made it quite clear that these victims are not worth 60 seconds. Imagine for a moment that these athletes had been from the United States, Canada, Australia, or even Germany. No one would think twice about commemorating them.

HT: Steven Abraham.

After watching the opening ceremony, they could have and should have evoked or incorporated the Israeli Olympic athletes murdered in Munich in 1972 into their moment of silence. It would have taken nothing away from the event and it would have added a wealth of knowledge and solidarity for an event that many today, 40 years later, still immediately associate with the Olympics.

In honor of the Euro 2012 quarterfinal match between the same nations, Monty Python’s football match between Greek and German philosophers.

The commentary post-Sokrates goal,

The Germans are disputing it! Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant by the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming that it was offside.”

Brilliant.