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Fox News: Protester Calls for Jews to 'Go Back to the Oven' at Anti-Israel Demonstration

Like many other protests of Israel's campaign in Gaza, this one ended badly -- police had to cool an ugly fight between supporters of Israel and Gaza, breaking up the warring sides as their screaming and chanting threatened to turn into something worse.

But some protesters at this rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., took their rhetoric a step further, calling for the extermination of Israel -- and of Jews.

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But as the protest continued and crowds grew, one woman in a hijab began to shout curses and slurs that shocked Jewish activists in the city, which has a sizable Jewish population.

"Go back to the oven," she shouted, calling for the counter-protesters to die in the manner that the Nazis used to exterminate Jews during the Holocaust.

"You need a big oven, that's what you need," she yelled.

Thankfully, ANSWER who organized the event acknowledged that perhaps these remarks were insensitive.

Now, in fairness, I have been known to call for the complete and utter destruction of the enemies of freedom.  I may have suggested the use of bombs and guns, but I don't think I've gotten more specific than that in terms of the methods employed and I certainly have not given much thought to the ethnic origins of those enemies.

Also, for the record, Israel's invasion of Gaza is not anything like a holocaust even if Jews are involved in it in some way.  I'm calling Godwin's Law on that.

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