JEWS 'ARE PRIVILEGED WHITE PEOPLE WHO CANNOT SEE THEIR OWN RACISM'

Shit, I was always told that ‘a Jew is nothing but a nigger turned inside out.’ And now, after all these years, I suddenly learn from Jennifer Peto’s University of Toronto thesis that I’m actually a white person, and a privileged one at that. Wow!

Peto’s anti-Semitism must have been derived from an overexposure to left-wing academics. Evidently her brother was much more fortunate.

JENNIFER PETO: HOLOCAUST CONTROVERSY REACHES HOUSTON
By Richard Connelly

Houston Press Hair Balls
December 17, 2010

There's a mini-storm in Canada these days over the University of Toronto awarding an advanced degree to a student for a thesis that calls Holocaust-education programs "racist."

Jennifer Peto's thesis, entitled The Victimhood of the Powerful: White Jews, Zionism and the Racism of Hegemonic Holocaust Education, argues, according to the newswire JTA, that Holocaust education "programs cause Jews to believe they are innocent victims. In reality, she writes, they are privileged white people who 'cannot see their own racism.'"

Now the controversy has reached Houston.

Peto's brother David, a resident at the UT Health Science Center at Houston, has written a letter to one of Canada's leading papers because his sister, in the introduction to her thesis, said if her gradnmother "were alive today, she would be right there with me protesting against Israeli apartheid."

That was too much for David Peto, who wrote to the National Post:

__It is not my desire to get involved with the details of my sister Jenny Peto's thesis, which has recently generated tremendous controversy. There are people far more qualified than I to debate the merits of the thesis, or lack thereof. There is, however, one point that I would like to contest. My sister dedicated her thesis to our late grandmother, Jolan Peto. She asserted that if our grandmother "were alive today, she would be right there with me protesting against Israeli apartheid"....

__Our grandmother was a soft-spoken woman, but she had an iron will. She taught us to abhor hatred, and to strive for excellence in everything we did. She was a woman of endless patience and generosity, and boundless love. She was uncompromising in her dedication to truth and honesty, and was also an ardent supporter of the state of Israel. My sister is simply wrong; our grandmother would have been entirely opposed to her anti-Israel protests....I cannot in good conscience allow my sister to misappropriate publicly our grandmother's memory to suit her political ideology.