Norman Filkenstein: „.. and it is precisely and exactly because of the lessons that my parents tought me and my two siblings, that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians. And I consider NOTHING more despicable than to use their (his parent’s) suffering and their martyrdom to try to justify the torture, the brutalization, the demolition of homes, that Israel daily commits against the Palestinians. So I refuse, any longer, to be intimidated by the tears. If you had any heart in you, you would be crying for the Palestinians!“