Controversial Speech on Holocaust and Palestine

Hi. Um,

yeah. During your speech, you made a lot of references to

Jewish people as well as certain people in your audience, not Jewish people in

general, but certain people-

Right

... especially in your audience, to Nazis.

Right.

Now, that is extremely offensive when certain people are German,

and they're also extremely offensive to people who've actually suffered under Nazi

rule.

I don't respect that anymore.

I really don't. I don't like, and I don't

respect the crocodile tears to con-

to-

You-

The crocodile tears...

No.

Uh, I'm ta- Folks, um, allow me to

finish, and allow me to... Here, allow me to finish. Listen, sir.

Allow me to finish. Allow me to finish.

Uh, sir, sir,

I don't like to play,

I don't like to play before an audience the

Holocaust card,

but since now I feel com-

You're the one playing the Holocaust card

... now I feel compelled to.

You brought it up.

My late father was in Auschwitz.

Please turn it around.

My late mother... Please shut up.

My late father was in Auschwitz. My

late mother was in Majdanek concentration camp.

Every single member of my family on my father's

side-

On my father's side-

The Jews did not take arms against the Germans.

My late father was in Auschwitz concentration camp.

My late mother was in Majdanek concentration camp.

Every single member of my family on both sides was

exterminated. Both of my parents were in the Warsaw

ghetto uprisings. And it's precisely

and exactly because of the lessons my

parents taught me and my two siblings

that I will not be silent when Israel commits its

crimes against the Palestinians, and I consider

nothing more despicable than to

use their suffering and their martyrdom

to try to justify the torture, the

brutalization, the demo- demolition of homes that

Israel daily commits against the Palestinians.

So I refuse any longer to be

intimidated or browbeaten by the tears.

If you had any heart in you, you would be crying for the

Palestinians, not for what's been done.

Can I just calm the audience down?

What?

Can I just calm the audience down please?

I'm going down to moderate.

Okay.

Dr. Finkelstein, uh, can you

I've never been in a crowd like this. They're nuts.