>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Interview w/Mahathir Mohamad
>Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 18:11:32 -0400
>
>Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>
>>Mahathir is a complex figure, since he seems to have close Jewish friends
>>and even conducted extensive correspondence with Yitzhak Rabin, I think
>>the 'bigot' label is too, um, simplistic.
>
>Anti-Semitism isn't so much about specific individual Jews, but about a
>mythical force known as The Jews - you know, those secretive rich folks who
>control the whole world. It doesn't really matter who Mahathir's pen pals
>are - he's spewing all the classic anti-Semitic crap when he says things
>like:
>
>>Well, we would not blame everything that goes wrong with the
>>Muslim world on the Jews, but there are some, not very many of them,
>>who apparently have a way of directing the very small number of
>>Jewish people in a way that has given them tremendous influence over
>>the world.
>
>What if he'd said, "Well, we know that many black people aren't shiftless,
>lazy people, but there are some who are, and they give the whole race a bad
>name"?
>
>Doug
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