What if PETA ads pictured dead Palestinians?
By now, you’ve probably heard about People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ new PR campaign comparing dead Jews to hamburger meat. At the Web site, www.masskillings.com, PETA juxtaposes the dead or half-dead emaciated corpses of Jews in Nazi concentration camps alongside images of cows, pigs and chickens in factory farms. It’s all part of its “Holocaust on your plate” campaign. PETA attempts to justify the effort in its usual way. Blah, blah, animals are people too, blah, blah, blah. Of course, this is all repugnant nonsense on stilts. But I can’t shake the feeling that this PR blitz is significant for another reason. I think it’s further proof that Jews have been exiled from the Coalition of the Oppressed. That’s not my phrase. I first saw mention of it about a decade ago when I was walking through a largely gay neighborhood in Washington, D.C. There was a poster that read, in a bold headline, “Ban the Gay Rodeo!” Underneath a picture of a (presumably gay) cowboy on a bucking bro
