Oxford Honors Man who Called Ann Frank 'Holo-Porn Star'

Tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Oxford Union, four academics who all support a boycott of Israel, will debate the motion "This House Believes That The State of Israel has a Right to Exist."

American revisionist "historian" Norman Finkelstein along with Prof. Ted Honderich will be speaking for the motion while opposing them will be Exeter University academics Ghada Karmi and Ilan Pappe, a former Israeli Jew who has made a career out of slandering the country where he was born and grew up.

MOST VILE

It is harder to know which of these four is the most vile.

Just last week, Finkelstein reprinted on his website an article from the Israeli paper Ha'aretz about worrying signs of failures in Holocaust education among German youth, and added the mock headline: "To reverse declining German interest in Holocaust, Britney Spears to play Anne Frank in new Holo-porn video."

Making fun of Holocaust survivors has been a frequent feature of Finkelstein's work (even though he is himself the son of survivors) and it is not surprising that so many regard him (as was the case with former chess champion Bobby Fischer who died last week) as a highly disturbed Jewish self-hater.

What is surprising – and dangerous – however, is Oxford's behavior.

Do the university authorities think it is ok to honor (and indeed pay a fee to) a man who thinks it is fun to call child Holocaust victim Anne Frank a porn star?