Via The Daily Telegraph:

“A group of German bishops sparked controversy yesterday when they compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians with the Nazis’ maltreatment of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
..The bishops visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, before heading to Ramallah, the de facto capital of the occupied West Bank.”This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto,” Bishop Gregor Maria Franz Hanke said. “It’s enough to drive one mad. Israel has the right to exist, but this right cannot be realised in such a brutal manner.” The Israeli press described the Nazi comparisons as “divisive”, but the bishops offered no apology.”

There are fair ways of criticising aspects of Israel policy (although I wouldn’t join the criticism of the wall – which has clearly saved lives – just its route) and then there are ways that are grotesque, repulsive and deeply, deeply disturbing. It shouldn’t take long to decide into which category the comments of those bishops should be classified.

What a disgrace.