Jackie Walker (activist)

"[W}hat debt do we owe the Jews?"

"I came in here ... and I was looking for information and I still haven’t heard a definition of anti-Semitism that I can work with ... [shouting from audience] and in terms of Holocaust day, wouldnt it be wonderful if Holocaust day was open to all people who experienced Holocaust ... [shouting from audience] in practice, it’s not actually circulated and advertised as such."

"[After someone mentions the Holocaust] Oh yes – and I hope you feel the same towards the African holocaust? My ancestors were involved in both – on all sides as Im sure you know, millions more Africans were killed in the African holocaust and their oppression continues today on a global scale in a way it doesnt for Jews... and many Jews (my ancestors too) were the chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade which is of course why there were so many early synagogues in the Caribbean. So who are victims and what does it mean? We are victims and perpetrators to some extent through choice. And having been a victim does not give you a right to be a perpetrator."