by Tzofia Hirschfeld
The first blood libel against Jews was invented by a Jew who converted. Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli jazz musician, defines himself as anti-Jewish and sees the torching of synagogues as a rational move. Prof. Israel Shahak, a chemist from the Hebrew University, once justified the Khmelnytsky Pogrom, in which tens of thousands of Jews were massacred.
This is not baseless hatred, it's self-hatred.
The Beit Avi Chai cultural center is holding a symposium for Tisha B'Av on Tuesday, which will include films and discussions on the different aspects of hatred in the Israeli society – such as hatred among children, political hatred and self-hatred.
