South African Jewish group: Comparing Tutu to Hitler "morally offensive"

[KamaAina]

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https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/14203-south-african-jewish-group-comparing-tutu-to-hitler-qmorally-offensiveq

A South African Jewish group has condemned a recent article by the chair of Likud South Africa, in which Nobel Laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is compared to Adolf Hitler.

In a statement issued Wednesday, South African Jewish Voices for a Just Peace (JVJP) respond to the piece penned by Leon Reich, and published by the South African Jewish Report (SAJR) website on September 10. The article – now removed, but a cached version is viewable here – is titled 'Arch no better than Hitler or Stalin says Reich' and features a crude image of Tutu as the Nazi dictator.

After noting Tutu's history and "international standing" as a moral voice, JVJP state that they "utterly reject the assumption that dissent from Zionism is equivalent to anti-Semitism" and also "take issue with the article's distorted and dishonest representation of the Palestinian solidarity movement as a movement invested in the 'destruction of Jews'" – a "myth", they say, perpetuated "in order to maintain a siege mentality amongst Jews in South Africa"....

JVJP explain that they are speaking out "as Jews" because this attack on Tutu "was launched by a Jewish organisation, speaks to a Jewish audience, and frequently invokes the collective 'we' which assumes that the Jewish community is homogenous in its views".

[immoderate]

1. JVJP sounds like me. I identify as of that tribe.

I am a non-Zionist, atheist, Jew. Don't ask.

--imm

[Aerows]

2. Comparing Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Hitler?

Egads. That's not out of line or hyperbole.