[lbo-talk] Double Standard: Israel and Saudi Arabia

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Jon Johanning jjohanning at igc.org, Sun Jul 11 13:35:17 PDT 2004
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>Sorry for over-posting -- I'll compensate tomorrow -- but I can't wait
>a day to answer this.
>
>On Jul 11, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>  "Director X: So I read where like the Jews have a trillion dollars in
>>  our banks of their money. What would happen if like one day they just
>>  pulled that trillion dollars out?
>>
>>  Expert Y: A trillion dollars, that would be an enormous blow to the
>>  economy."
>>
>>  Replacing the term "the Jews" with the term "the Israelis" or "the
>>  Zionists" in the same statement wouldn't make it acceptable to us.
>
>What "trillion dollars" of "Jewish money" are you talking about? Do 
>you  have any evidence of any "Jewish cabal" using that kind of pot 
>to  control or influence world events?
>
>That kind of talk is exactly what anti-Semites have been talking 
>about  for centuries: the sinister conspiracy of Jews, who have no 
>values  except money-grubbing, to rule the world by throwing their 
>fabulous  wealth around.
>
>If you don't understand what the term "Jewish money" means in 
>political  discourse, you need an elementary course in the history 
>of  anti-Semitism. And maybe you need another one in humanist 
>values. I  don't care if I get baited as an "Israel-lover" for 
>saying it, but  throwing terms like that one around is just 
>unacceptable.

You are completely missing my point here.  I'm saying that, *just as 
it is not acceptable to speaks of "Jewish money,"* it is *not* 
acceptable to speak of "Saudi money," and that, while leftists 
*correctly* recognize and criticize the former problem, many of them 
are evidently *incapable of recognizing the latter problem,* let 
alone criticizing it, as your replies to me demonstrate.
-- 
Yoshie

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