Croatian columnist and media personality Vedrana Rudan [pictured above] compares Israeli actions against Arab terrorists in Gaza to the Holocaust.
She does this a day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day and says:
"Let Jews stop being Jews and start being people". She brags on a Croatian TV show how her granddad was in the murderous Ustashe [Croat version of the SS] and how he
"was trying to solve the question of Jews [ in the Jasenovac death camp] with a sledgehammer" saying that she shouldn't have to feel guilty her whole life because of it: comparing Israeli actions in Operation Cast Lead to those of the Nazis during the Holocaust.Here is a video of the interview with English subtitles posted by a Croat supporter of her on Zootube:
“Unfortunately, Mrs Rudan is the manifestation of a widespread disease that manifests itself in the Croatian society, and that is antisemitism,” Ivo Goldstein, President of the Jewish association Beth Israel commented, adding that his organization is considering filing a lawsuit against Rudan.
Despite the fact that Jewish community in Croatia clearly has reasons to be offended and to feel threatened, Croat media and their readers apparently believe it is the Jews who should be ashamed.
“However, the small Palestinian boy that died in an Israeli attack, that Rudan keeps on mentioning in her column, is a victim of Israeli politics, before which they [the Jews] cannot close their eyes”, says internet edition of Croat daily Javno, publishing, at the same time, a comment by a reader who poured the entire slew of antisemitic slurs, while congratulating Mrs. Rudan and praising her as “very smart”. http://de-construct.net/?p=4667After causing an uproar in the Jewish community this Nazi beast is no longer invited back on the Croat TV show after refusing to apologize to the Jewish community and refers to her on-air comments as
"a heroic act" and
compares herself to Anne Frank who hid from the Nazis! A major paper in the Croatian news media jumps to her defense by publishing a vile apologia for her blatant antisemitic Jew-hatred with the following title:
"Down On Your Knees Before Jewish Organizations"Instead of being ostracized and turned into a pariah, she is instead offered plenty of other jobs in the Croatian media!
Here is an English version of the Croatian newspaper article condemning Israel and defending her vile antisemitism:
http://www.javno.com/en-croatia/down-on-your-knees-before-jewish-organisations_229013