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PowNed : Leon de Winter: 'steriliseer Palestijnse volk'
Sterilize the Palestinian people, Dutch writer Leon de Winter says with Israeli ambassador listening | The Electronic Intifada
Sterilize the Palestinian people, Dutch writer Leon de Winter says with Israeli ambassador listening
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 11/22/2012 - 19:20
Leon de Winter (source)
(Elke Wetzig / Wikimedia Commons)
On the night a ceasefire came into effect ending eight days of Israeli slaughter that left 162 people, the vast majority unarmed civilians, dead in Gaza, Dutch columnist and author Leon de Winter proposed adding chemicals to Gazas water supply to sterilize the population.
The website PowNed reported that de Winter made his proposal for forced eugenics yesterday evening in Amsterdam at a solidarity meeting of Dutch Jews, and that the speech by de Winter was broadcast this morning by Dutch mainstream and publicly-funded Radio 1.
PowNed said:
De Winter responded in his speech to the accusations of genocide leveled against Israel, saying that the population of Gaza had only increased over the last few years. Maybe we should secretly add some means of birth control to Gazas drinking water, De Winter proceeded to propose.
The suggestion was met with roaring laughter by the public. Among the participants that evening were the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands, Hiam Devon, and the cheerful leader of the [religious ultra-conservative] SGP party, Kees van der Staaij.
De Winter blogged until 2008 on the mainstream liberal news site Elsevier. He is also an an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, a right-wing American think-tank.
While de Winter, known for his humor, might have intended his suggestion as some sort of sick joke, the reported reaction suggests that the audience were only too ready to mock an already dehumanized population.
De Winters comment fits neatly with Israels racist conception of Palestinians as a demographic threat simply because they are not Jews.
Such genocidal comments are particularly disturbing in The Netherlands given the upsurge of Islamophobia and xenophobia in recent years, and because the country had a particularly shameful history of collaboration with the Nazis in deporting Jews to their deaths during the Second World War.
PowNed : Leon de Winter: 'steriliseer Palestijnse volk'
Sterilize the Palestinian people, Dutch writer Leon de Winter says with Israeli ambassador listening | The Electronic Intifada
Sterilize the Palestinian people, Dutch writer Leon de Winter says with Israeli ambassador listening
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 11/22/2012 - 19:20
Leon de Winter (source)
(Elke Wetzig / Wikimedia Commons)
On the night a ceasefire came into effect ending eight days of Israeli slaughter that left 162 people, the vast majority unarmed civilians, dead in Gaza, Dutch columnist and author Leon de Winter proposed adding chemicals to Gazas water supply to sterilize the population.
The website PowNed reported that de Winter made his proposal for forced eugenics yesterday evening in Amsterdam at a solidarity meeting of Dutch Jews, and that the speech by de Winter was broadcast this morning by Dutch mainstream and publicly-funded Radio 1.
PowNed said:
De Winter responded in his speech to the accusations of genocide leveled against Israel, saying that the population of Gaza had only increased over the last few years. Maybe we should secretly add some means of birth control to Gazas drinking water, De Winter proceeded to propose.
The suggestion was met with roaring laughter by the public. Among the participants that evening were the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands, Hiam Devon, and the cheerful leader of the [religious ultra-conservative] SGP party, Kees van der Staaij.
De Winter blogged until 2008 on the mainstream liberal news site Elsevier. He is also an an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, a right-wing American think-tank.
While de Winter, known for his humor, might have intended his suggestion as some sort of sick joke, the reported reaction suggests that the audience were only too ready to mock an already dehumanized population.
De Winters comment fits neatly with Israels racist conception of Palestinians as a demographic threat simply because they are not Jews.
Such genocidal comments are particularly disturbing in The Netherlands given the upsurge of Islamophobia and xenophobia in recent years, and because the country had a particularly shameful history of collaboration with the Nazis in deporting Jews to their deaths during the Second World War.
