Tutu’s No-Nos
I didn't fully grasp the scale of his awfulness until he started speaking up frequently about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His sympathies, he made clear, were entirely with Yasser Arafat and company. He compared Israel to Nazi Germany. He used his clout to get the University of Johannesburg to sever its ties with its Israeli fellows. But he wasn't just critical of Israel. He criticized Jews. In fact, it became pretty apparent that he hated Jews.
He has complained that "the
Jewish people with their traditions, religion and long history of persecution
sometimes appear to have caused a refugee problem among others." Tutu has
minimized the suffering of those murdered in the Holocaust by asserting that
"the gas chambers" made for "a neater death" than did apartheid. He has
demanded that its victims must "forgive the Nazis for the Holocaust," while refusing
to forgive the "Jewish people" for "persecute[ing] others."