Nearly silent, nearly silent - Simon Schama on the BBC

“…in some sense if you don’t live in Israel – I don’t live in Israel – you’re morally obliged to be nearly silent, nearly silent.”

Simon Schama: The Story of the Jews, episode 5, broadcast Sunday 1st October 2013.

How blind are those that put

ethnic, religious or ideological allegiance

above justice and morality!

Simon Schama tells about

the past suffering of the Jews

and then demands "near silence"

about what Israel does

to Palestinians.

He should be an intelligent man,

but he isn't intelligent or wise enough

to understand that

when Jews were the ones who

were oppressed,

who suffered,

people like him stepped forward

demanding that their suffering

would be met with silence.

11.10.2013