Isabel Kershner mars an otherwise touching account of an encounter between Holocaust survivors and Palestinian musicians with an offensive equivalence.
Describing the encounter between the two groups, IK writes,
"Each appeared to have only the sketchiest knowledge about the other side."
The Israeli Holocaust survivor says she is familiar with Jenin, the city from which the musicians come, because it was a center of the suicide bombing campaign conducted earlier in the decade. When asked about the Shoah, a Palestinian musician "looked blank. He knew only that these people lived alone as children because their parents had been killed."
The survivor's slight knowledge of the musician's city, Jenin, is hardly analogous to the musician's ignorance of an historical tragedy as great as the Holocaust. To suggest otherwise demonstrates skewed reasoning and emotional distortion.
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