>From: Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: [lbo-talk] counterpunch contributor whether it is right or not
>toburn down a synagogue
>Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 03:02:35 -0600
>
>http://www.counterpunch.org/atzmon05032005.html
>http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2005/04/respect_and_ant.html
>April 25, 2005
>Respect and antisemitism
>
> >From The Guardian, 12 April:
>"This is one of the most disgusting slurs I can remember for a long
>time," said John Rees, national secretary of Respect. "George Galloway
>and everyone in Respect has a long record of fighting anti-semitism -
>longer I suspect than Oona King."
>
> >From The Observer, 17 April:
>Gilad Atzmon, a pro-Palestine advocate, gave a talk to [SOAS] students
>this month, arguing: 'I'm not going to say whether it is right or not
>to burn down a synagogue, I can see that it is a rational act.'
>
>John Rees is a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist
>Workers' Party, at whose 'Marxism 2004' jamboree Gilad Atzmon was an
>invited speaker on the subject "How can Palestine be free?" (see here
>for Socialist Worker's obsequious piece on Atzmon before the event,
>where his unabashedly antisemitic writings are termed "Gilad's
>fearless tirades against Zionism").
>--
>Michael Pugliese
>
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