Comments on: A cancer survivor responds to MK Miri Regev

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 04:22:45 +0000

Thank you for writing this bold and thoughtful editorial. Your articulate and honest writing has helped to raise awareness about the unfair treatment of the African asylum seekers and about the unkind, shameful, and unacceptable statement from Miri Regev. I appreciated your point of view and your courage to speak it. Thank you.

By: sh

sh — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:13:18 +0000

Apart from being appallingly insensitive, as the writer of this piece points out, calling refugees cancer makes a pig’s ear out of what could very well be a silk purse.
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Germany doesn’t call them infiltrators and has refugee camps too. This show hit the road in May.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlTK2PLXAv8&feature=player_embedded

By: Rehmat

Rehmat — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:14:47 +0000

There is no shortage of religious fanatics and regular bigots who consider everyone they don’t like – as cancer.

Jonathan Cook, in a 2009 article had claimed that there are 350,000 Jews in Israel who are considered “low caste” because they cannot prove their parents were Jewish – an thus no rabbi will perform marriage ceremony for them.

http://rehmat1.com/2009/08/08/350000-harijan-jews-in-israel/

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:29:30 +0000

“When you use someone else’s crisis to put yourself in a position of superiority, you lose your ability to be compassionate.”
I agree, and also with the sentiment of the article.

But as far as the comparison is concerned: Only Africans and cancer cells can be insulted by it, as it is they who are seen as the problem that has to be cut out, not you.

Do not misunderstand me: My mother was recently treated for breast cancer, so I am not making fun of you, or the disease you were treated for.