I wouldn't necessarily cite Mill, but what have you. I feel a whole lot better now.
Joel
On Jul 22, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Aaron Shuman wrote:
> http://www.tikkun.org/rabbi_lerner/news_item.2006-07-13.2604750814
>
> "Unlike many other publlications on the right, left
> and center, we believe in John Stuart Mill's view of
> the deep value of conflicting views in the marketplace
> of ideas--because we think truth is most likely to
> emerge from that perspective. In Tikkun magazine as
> well we print views which we find offensive, but
> nevertheless stimulating and forcing us to think about
> ideas that we might otherwise ignore. In fact, we
> believe that without this kind of exchange, people
> fall into an intellectual deadness that ensures that
> their ideas become stale and irrelevant."
>
> So Tikkun publishes "Moment of Truth" by Horowitz
> (among several pieces by a range of authors) which
> opens...
>
> "Americans need to take a hard look at what is going
> on in the Middle East, because it provides the
> clearest picture possible of the war we are in. On one
> side are al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hizbollah, Syria and Iran
> and their allies: Russia, France, Greece, and the UN
> majority. On the other is the only democracy in the
> land of Muslim and Arab terror."
>
> and concludes with
>
> "The goal of the United States and Israel and all
> freedom-loving and civilized people in this war must
> be the destruction of the Hamas and Hizabollah
> leadership, their military infrastructure and
> capabilities... The world will not be a safe place or
> a decent one until the present regime in Gaza, the
> West Bank, Syria and Iran are gone. This is a war all
> Americans must support."
>
>
> Joel, can you explain your editorial decision to
> publish this? Why would you distribute the work of a
> man who seems to believe the Left shouldn't exist?
> Does the invocation of John Stuart Mill and the value
> of printing views which some find offensive mean that
> Tikkun will publish work on Israeli apartheid
> (Reinhardt's use of the a-word, for instance) and
> critical holocausts (there's a school of lit on U.S.
> policy in Central America in the 1980s using that
> comparative term, for instance)?
>
> Or is "this kind of exchange" solely open to people,
> however right-wing they are, whose views shore up the
> liberal-Left Zionism of Lerner which opposes
> divestment and criticism of the Jewish identity of the
> state?
>
> (From Lerner's latest...
> http://www.tikkun.org/rabbi_lerner/news_item.2006-07-17.9426591429
> "Who are [Palestine's] enemies? Those who preach ideas
> like “one state solution” or global economic boycott
> without offering the Jewish people a secure state in
> Palestine--paths that will never produce anything
> positive but continued resistance by Israel and world
> Jewry.)
>
> aaron
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