Gisela Graham Ltd.

At Bloghead, a rejection letter received by an Israeli woman who applied for a job with a London company:

Speaking personally however may I suggest that for European consumption you would be wise to omit details of your national service, which you describe with such evident and ingenuous pride? The natural reaction of most educated Europeans to the information you provide is likely to be "so it was she who guided those guinships to targetted assasinations and the murder of women and children with indiscriminate bombing and strafing of refugee camps (refugee camps!!!! 50 years after your compatriots drove them from their homes - and you have done nothing for them ever since.)!". Most educated Europeans - and as a matter of fact a large proprtion of educated Americans too - now view 'Israel' as a brutal undemocratic (where are the votes for the indigenous inhabitants whom you have helotised?) colonial state, run by criminals who defy all international law and natural justice. And a sizeable proportion doubts the 'right' of Israel to exist.

This has nothing to do with anti-semitism. nor is it racism - that is the kind of disgusting attitude which one might say is inherent in the idea of the state of Israel, and one might say among a large section of believing Jews elsewhere, who regard the rest of us as inferior and unclean - and not chosen by God. What could be more racist than that? And what happens to those of your race who dare to speak out against the wickedness that your fanatacsim inevitably leads to? they are murdered or have acid thrown in their faces like Yael Dayan

Comments

[oliver]

As an 'educated European' I can firmly add to this bizarre twisted lecture: 'Not In My Name'.

Look at how he uses the idea of collective Europeanism in this Guardian letter, too:

www.guardian.co.uk/letters/extra/0,1336,554028,00.html

Pretty ugly, isn't it?

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[Mick H]

A Guardian reader! Well who would have guessed.

[James Hamilton]

Yes; he's well worth Googling. But you won't find any evidence of the overt racism of the letter. Just the usual contemporary pseudo left etc. boilerplate. For all that the Jerusalem Post thinks he's apologised, it wouldn't surprise me if his name appears only as pp'd, and the letter itself is someone else's work.

[David T]

Oh come on. Give him some leeway. This fellow designs christmas decorations, and so may have strong religious beliefs. We non believers should understand that, from the cultural perspective in which he operates, jews killed his god.