PETA ads link pigs, Nazi camp victims
I hadn't imagined that the maroons at PETA could have sunk any lower, but THIS proves just how wrong I was. I'd ask what these fools were thinking, but that would of course presume that there was actually something resembling a thought process that went into this campaign.
A new animal-rights campaign compares the murder of Jews in Nazi death camps to the killing of chickens and pigs in slaughterhouses - enraging Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors.
The "Holocaust on Your Plate" campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals juxtaposes images of Jews in concentration camps and barnyard animals in cages.A picture of children behind barbed wire sits alongside a photo of caged piglets.
Another photo montage shows a jumbled heap of naked human corpses alongside a shot of animal carcasses. A third compares a skeletal, starving man to a skinny calf.
Above the images are messages such as "To Animals, All People are Nazis."
"Who are those people now, who are comparing me to anybody else?" asked Oscar Ilan, a Holocaust survivor who lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Ilan, 79, survived slave labor and starvation in Nazi camps for more than five years until liberation in 1945. One of his jobs in camps such as Birkenau was to feed the German dogs who guarded the Jews. He sometimes pocketed scraps from those dogs' dinners to stay alive.
"All the dogs had food, [but] the Jews didn't have food," Ilan said. "The hunger started in 1939, and in 51/2 years, we seldom saw bread."
I am all for the ethical and humane treatment of animals, but trading on the suffering and murder of six million Jews is the very definition of cluelessness and insensitivity. I cannot fathom the mindset of individuals who would debase the sensless slaughter of Jews in order to make a political point. I'm not sure that I can find the words to adequately describe the anger and revulsion I feel at this moment.
Perhaps PETA has become so caught up in their campaign for animal rights that they've lost sight of their own humanity.
