the Euro-left and anti-semitism

[joanna bujes]

At 06:11 PM 05/09/2002 -0400, Gordon wrote:
>However, there's an odd thing going on with Israel and its
>way of relating to the Arabs, formally speaking: it recreates
>the ghetto, a Jewish community surrounded by hostile neighbors,
>and with the settlements it sends forth fractals of itself
>which intensify its predicament.
>
>Some postmodernist rhizome-flogger must have noticed this
>before now.

Nah, the zionists were debating this point as early as their first 
congress. Some opined that political zionism (the demand for a Jewish 
state) would mean nothing more than the building of a larger Jewish ghetto 
and that this would sit very well with those Jewish leaders who were 
threatened by the progressive emancipation of the Jews in Europe since the 
French revolution.

One would do well to remember that the emancipation of Jews in Europe DID 
represent a threat to some Jews.

Joanna