The rhetorical aftermath of last month's appalling attack on
migrant workers, refugees and asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv,
following a rally in which Knesset members fed the crowd's
anger, has manifested ongoing ugliness, including suspected
arson in Jerusalem. Public officials have been competing to make
the most outrageous accusations against the Africans, and to
incite the public against the aid workers and rights activists
trying to help these desperate people. If we listen to the words
of these legislators, we must wonder if they have any Jewish
collective consciousness or memory.  At the protest itself,
which devolved into a rampage against local shopkeepers,
journalists and passersby, Likud MK Miri Regev notoriously told
the crowd that "the Sudanese are a cancer in our body." Jews
have been called a cancer by our Islamic extremist enemies, but
more famously by Adolf Hitler, who termed them "a cancer on the
breast of Germany."  As the former spokeswoman for the Israel
Defense Forces, tasked with parsi