The animal rights group PETA has a new European ad campaign that compares the slaughter of chicken to the murder of Jews in Auschwitz:
The text at the top reads: “To animals, all people are Nazis”
From Reuters:
Paul Spiegel, president of the Central Council of Jews, said he would ask prosecutors to raise charges of “inciting racial hatred” against vegetarian group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for the advertisements called “Holocaust on a plate.”
PETA campaign coordinator Matt Prescott said he was aware of the council’s views, but added: “We are not willing to end the campaign.” He said he himself was Jewish.
The posters, due to be displayed in Stuttgart from Thursday and in 11 European cities at later dates, show pictures of battery hens packed into cages next to historic pictures of emaciated Jewish inmates in Nazi concentration camp bunk beds.
Remember:
– PETA was the group that decided to voice its moral outrage against Palestinian terrorism only when donkeys (not Israeli humans) became threatened.
– PETA’s comparison of Jews to fowl is disturbingly similar to regular Arab descriptions of Israeli Jews as “sons of apes and pigs.” But at least to the Arabs this is considered an insult!
The quotation from German Jewish philosopher Theodor Adorno reads “Auschwitz begins when someone is in a slaughterhouse and says they are only animals.”
UPDATE: Last year, PETA did this campaign in the US.
