The recent spate of vandalism in the Jewish cemetaries in the capital have been all over the news. The Jewish population of the city is really big about 3,000 people, so threatening to these ridiculous anti-semites. I don't understand racism, I hope it is the fear of the unknown but that doesn't explain the racism in this country towards much larger minorities including the indigenous Maaori. But it seems bizarre to focus on this small community as the bullseye of your hate. You would have to learn this hate from something other than experience. You would have to believe the lies you are told about Judaism because in this country there is no opportunity to test them for yourselves. There are no Jewish neighbourhoods, there are no Jewish business districts we you could easily discover the truth, you would have to go out of your way to ensure that your hatred was not misdirected. You would have to knock on the door and ask politely excuse me, are you a Jew, No sorry to bother. Yes you are. Good as you were, I am just off to get me mates to come back and harrass you! So hat might be a bit interactive for most hatemongers, so what's left? The Jewish cemetaries. that's nice and easy just wait for one dark and stormy night and off you go kicking hte headstones over adn scrawling your filthy swastikas on the walls. The police and the governmnet are linking the latest attacks to the refusal to give Irving an entry visa.
But wait, picking on the dead.... what message are you sending? Graves are sites of memory, places to remind you of the sorrows of life. You kick a headstone over you, achieving what? obliterating memory, the right of a people to remember? You are stirring up memories, taking private sorrows and making them public. The next day the Maakara cemetary was visited by families of the interred and the gentile masses alike. You reminded everyone of the suffering of the Jews. These people lurking in the graveyards and their spokesman, Irving the master eraser of history by their very methods will always fail.