[lbo-talk] RE: Calculated provocation

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In a message dated 4/9/2004 1:24:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu writes:
Many pro-Israel voices suggest that one cannot be anti-Israel without
being antisemetic.  Could it be that this attitude lends itself to
anti-Jewish responses
I think that a lot hinges on what one means by being "anti-Israel."  There is 
a difference between being anti- an Israeli government official, a right wing 
Israeli political party, an unjust action of the Isreali Defense Forces -- on 
the one hand -- and being opposed to the existence of Israel. (As I've said 
before, I don't like Ariel Sharon and I'm critical of him and of Likud.)  I do 
not think it's anti-Semitic to criticize current and past Israeli governments. 
I do think it's anti-Semitic to say or imply that Israel and the Israeli 
people do not have a right to exist.

Marion
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