"So "critics" should stop blaming the Jews for turning the holocaust around on the Palestinians."
What does that mean? I believe that Israel must bear some responsibility for the situation in Palestine and I do think that they are the oppressors, at this point in time. If you are referring to the holocaust deniers mentioned in the article, their words while vile and reprehensible, do not exonerate Israel's behavior toward the Palestinians.
and I disagree with the author who states there we must adhere to certain standards when criticizing their abuse of the Palestinian people.
Except
there is still one anti-Israel argument that makes my jaw drop. And it is one that is made with unfortunate frequency. It is the "they-of-all-people" argument: the suggestion that the Jews, having faced extraordinary persecution, should know better than anyone not to be oppressors.
Put aside for a moment that the "oppression" which proponents of this argument are accusing Israel of committing is usually imaginary. When directed by gentiles towards Jews, the "they-of-all-people" argument is in its very essence so fundamentally ill-judged and unjust, and voiced with such a breathtaking lack of self-awareness, that my spirit flags when I hear it.
He tries to clarify his views by stating that these argument are used by Holocaust deniers, and of course in that context, they are the height of hypocrisy, but it is a reality that the oppressed have become the oppressors and that is always noteworthy to examine and comment on it when it happens.