What the Nazis Did to Us
NOVANEWS
by BILL MEULEMANS
Photo by ptwo | CC BY 2.0
The speaker did not give his name, but he was apparently a well-known member of the Hebrew University academic community in Jerusalem. He was a sociologist who started his presentation by pulling up his sleeve and showing the numbers tattooed on his arm. He was a Holocaust survivor who had immigrated to Israel from Poland. He reminded everyone in the room that he had spent his entire professional life on the subject of the Israeli policy toward the Palestinians.
His opening point was that violent experiences in life shape individual behavior, stressing the fact that upward of 30% of children who are beaten severely by their parents grow up to be child-beaters when they become parents. He went into statistical and anecdotal evide...