[lbo-talk] Criticism of Israel vs. "anti-Semitism"

[Ed Marshall]

On 12/11/05, Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> B. stated and posted an article:
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> I sent this because this issue comes up a lot -- esp.
> ic criticism of Israeli state policy. "What's the
> boundary between legitimate political criticism and
> racist propaganda?" -B.
>
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> Gallery traces anti-Semitism in political cartoons
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> By Peter Graff
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> Fri Dec 9, 8:26 AM ET
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> Is criticism of Israel anti-Semitic if it uses the
> same kinds of images as those long used to attack
> Jews?....
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>
>
> There was a similar "stoking" recently reported in the "NYTimes" titled:
> Danish
> Cartoons of Prophet Irk Muslim....
>
> Regards,
> Mike B)
>
> Read "The Perthian Brickburner":
> http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal
>
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I'm just bored by it.  Anti-semites will inevitably crowbar themselves into
discussions about the polity of the Levant.  They will also without fail
segway into their gripes about Jews more universally.  That's what they do
and it's why they piped up in the first place about Israeli state behaviour.

There rest of it?  The super-secret anti-semitism of the New Left (which is
about old enough to be using a walker by now)?  Fuck it.  It's religion
dressed up in secularism.  It's a formulation of an organic Jew hatred that
is the direct decendent of old superstitions about Gentiles being less than
moral agents and something that God would sick on Jews when they weren't
behaving properly.
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