“That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.”

On the accusation of being a self-hating Jew, in "Personality: Dr. Israel Shahak" by Richard H. Curtiss" in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (June 1989) http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0689/8906019.htm.

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