The Union of Jewish Students at the Goldsmith's college in the University of London has condemned an event scheduled for next Wednesday entitled "From the Warsaw Ghetto to the Gaza Ghetto," in which the situation in Gaza will be compared to that in the Warsaw Ghetto under the Nazis, according to the Jerusalem Post. The newspaper says the event is being organized by the Palestine Twinning Campaign, a student union group that won a vote last February to twin Goldsmiths with Al-Quds University's campus near Shechem and to offer scholarships to two Al-Quds students.
President Yossi Unterman of the Jewish Society at Goldsmiths said the twinning campaign was led by a small number of "fanatic and obsessed" students, joined by even fewer well-meaning but misinformed students. The Union of Jewish Students issued a statement that said, "The Union of Jewish Students finds the premise and the title of this talk highly offensive and insensitive. While we welcome debate about the Middle East on campus, cheapening the experiences of the Holocaust for political point scoring is shameful. Over a hundred thousand Jews lost their lives in the Warsaw Ghetto as a result of the systematic abuse and genocidal intentions of the Nazi regime. Whatever your politics, these two situations are incomparable. We urge the union and university to think again about hosting this event."