Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

cannot in all seriousness be considered dangerous or threatening in a
world where the existence of the Holocaust is not and can never be in
question simply due to the presence of compelling evidence in its
favour.
So why would the Executive Council of Australian Jewry – who brought
the initial case against Toben – consider them as anything other than the
bigoted ramblings of a foolish old man?
The fact is Jewish lobbies wield inordinate amounts of power in the
Western world. We have wandered into dangerous territory whereby
anything even remotely critical of Israel or its seemingly unending thirst
for domination over the Palestinian people is labelled anti-Semitic.
Last December, Israel broke a ceasefire in Gaza and began a three-week
campaign of bombings, invasion and destruction. More than 1300
Palestinians were killed, compared to the deaths of 13 Israelis – only
four of whom were civilians. Yet Western governments, so anxious to
justify their invasion of Iraq as ‘bringing peace’, were strangely silent
when it came to criticising Israel’s actions.
Israel was founded in 1948, establishing a homeland for those Jews left
transient after the war. But what of the Palestinians driven out to make
way for Israel and subsequently persecuted? Would the fact my
sympathies lie with them have the Executive Council attempt to silence
my views?
The Burmese government is once again planning to imprison political
agitator Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent the last 13 out of 19 years
under house arrest for expressing dissident views. She is unlikely to
receive a fair trial, or indeed any kind of defence at all. The nobility of
her cause is in no way comparable to the audacity of Toben’s.
But the principle remains the same.
We need to resist courts interfering with our right to freedom of
expression. We may not like what one man has to say, but for the sake
of freedom from dictatorship we should be prepared to defend to the
death his right to say it.
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