The Lerner Affair

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Feb 14 11:14:48 PST 2003


Nathan Newman wrote:


>But if the charge is antisemitism, then its considered a crank charge that
>reflects badly only on the speaker.

But in this case it's a bullshit charge. There's no question that many people on the left are often indulgent when anti-Zionism becomes anti-Semitism, but invoking anti-Semitism here is not unlike Netanyahu's claim that accusing Sharon of war crimes is another European "blood libel."

Doug



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