Miko Peled At Fringe Labour Conference - "Holocaust Yes Or No"?

'Unfortunately, Miko Peled, AZZs and Zionists share the same attitude towards elementary liberties. They see it as a set of limitations, a  Jerusalemite realm of correctness, an extension of the 10 commandments. How sad...'

By Gilad Atzmon: The Mirror reports today that the Labour party faces a fresh anti-Semitism row after a speaker at a party conference fringe event called for “free speech to extend to holocaust denial.”
Let me assure you, this is not what Anti Zionist Zionist  Naomi Wimborne-idrissi had in mind when she invited Miko Peled to speak at the Free Speech on Israel Labour fringe event.
What the Labour Jews mean by freedom of speech on Israel has little to do with freedom, speech or freedom of speech. What they mean is that a few Labour Jews should be the ones who define the boundaries of freedom to criticise Israel in accordance with their understanding of Jewish interests. Wimborne Idrissi calls it ‘giving a kosher stamp.’

Five years ago the same  Wimborne-Idrissi criticised me in front of camera for demanding freedom to discuss the holocaust and its historical meaning.

Wimborne-Idrissi fell into this trap for an obvious reason. Unlike the Diaspora Jews who are defined by antisemitsm and a chain of holocausts, Miko Peled, myself and Israelis of our generation are defined by the rejection of the Diaspora identity and disassociation from Diaspora past. We, the young Israelis, identified with a piece of land that we believed by mistake was ours. We also learned to believe that Diaspora Jews brought disasters on themselves. We, on the other hand, were the Zionist post revolutionary products. We saw ourselves as civilised and humanist Jews. This belief has made Gideon Levy, Israel Shamir, Uri Avnery, Israel Shahak, Schlomo Sand, Miko Peled and yours truly into the most vocal critics of the Jewish State and the Jewishness at its core.
Needless to mention that a few of the names above, including myself, realised at a certain stage that fixing Jewishness is a futile exercise, we departed from the tribe and stopped being Jews.
Update 09:10 EST 27/9/: Miko Peled is now zigzagging his withdrawal path. He believes that we can discuss the "Holocaust Yes or No" as long as we acknowledge that “the Holocaust was a terrible crime that we must study and from which we must all learn," Peled told the Guardian.   
Peled also believes in freedom of speech as long as this freedom is not universal. The Daily Mail quoted him saying: “It’s about the limits of tolerance: we don’t invite the Nazis and give them an hour to explain why they are right; we do not invite apartheid South Africa racists to explain why apartheid was good for the blacks; and in the same way we do not invite Zionists – it’s a very similar kind of thing.”
We also learned that Miko pulled a no show on Richie Allen last night after confirming his appearance on the radio show. Miko was probably advised that he wouldn't stand a chance surviving Allen's inquisitive mind.  
I guess that within the Jewish progressive circles some  really struggle to cope with the idea of freedom of speech being a binary option. It is either yes or no. We either accept the universal notion of freedom or alternatively,  define the boundaries of such freedom. We can't do both. Unfortunately, Miko Peled, AZZs and Zionists share the same attitude towards elementary liberties. They see it as a set of limitations, a  Jerusalemite realm of correctness, an extension of the 10 commandments. How sad...  

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