<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 4/9/2004 9:27:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, michael098762001@earthlink.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>And if we see maleness, whiteness, Jewishness, Zionism or intellectual thuggery there, then let us not look the other way. </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>I am saddened and appalled that the editor of Ad-Busters subliminally classifies Jewishness and all forms of Zionism (including left or socialist Zionism) with maleness [as in male domination] whiteness [as in white supremacy] and intellectual thuggery.  Her fixation with counting the Jews in the overwhelmingly right wing, Christian dominated Bush administration is a form of anti-Semitism (and "intellectual thuggery") in and of itself.  Ellen Willis had just such a phenomenon in mind when she dissected "The [anti-Semitic] Myth of Jewish Power."  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Instead of putting Jews "under a microscope," I suggest that the editor of Ad-Busters take a closer look at one or more of the following phenomena:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-Bush's collusion with the dictators, misogynists, racists, anti-Zionists and anti-Semites of the current (and past) Saudi government</DIV> <DIV>-Jerry Falwell's assertion, not so long ago, that the "anti-Christ" is a Jewish man who walks among us.</DIV> <DIV>-Pat Robertson's belief, as expresed in one of his books, that Jews have a disproportionate amount of power over international finance</DIV> <DIV>-The mainstream media's flaccid response to Mel and Hutton Gibson's anti-Semitism and holocaust denial, and the Southern church that posted a sign </DIV> <DIV>stating that "the Jews killed Christ" after Mel's anti-Semitic snuff film was screened (note:  Gibson's film is currently very popular in Middle Eastern countries with anti-Zionist governments; not a comfortable fact for left anti-Zionists; but perhaps we should put that under a microscope)</DIV> <DIV>-Bush's collusion with the worst of the right wing evangelical Christian crowd, as exemplified by his friends (like Ashcroft) who are in accord with the Jerry -Falwell/Pat Robertson mentality--the current choice scapegoats being lesbians and gays who want marriage licenses</DIV> <DIV>-Why and how the ardently anti-Zionist Syrian government would willingly torture a Canadian citizen born in Syria (Maher Arar) on behalf of the American government</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Marion</DIV></BODY></HTML>