The protests against Mr. Burley's unconventional party in France have rapidly been muted following his "unreserved, wholehearted and fulsome apology" to jews in a letter to the Jewish Chronicle. Whether he really meant it or just followed the rules, it's beyond the scope of this post.
Why did Mr. Burley apologize to jews?
Why does everyone seem satisfied with an apology to jews?
There is a widespread consensus that nazism is bad for jews, that
espousing nazi ideas is only as wrong as the amount of outrage caused to
jews. This kind of attitude leads not only to misconceptions about the real nature
of nazism, but it also reinforces the wrong and dangerous viewpoint
that some all-powerful jewish lobby decides what other people should
believe.
When the german Luftwaffe was dropping bombs on London, it wasn't jews they were after. When nazis herded russian POWs to the gas chambers in Auschwitz, it wasn't jews they were after. The polish, the roma, Jehova's witnesses, political dissidents, anyone whom the nazis deemed suspect - they weren't jews either. Why are all these people silent now?
Jews shouldn't accept this kind of apologies anymore, unless they're offered to all the decent people in the world as well. Though I sometimes wonder where have all those decent people gone.
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