[lbo-talk] Chechnya, Darfur, and Jewish Activism

[Jim Devine]

Yoshie: >
I've taken no less care of not appearing to criticize Jews as such
than I've taken care of not appearing to criticize Arabs as such,
Muslims as such, whites as such, Americans as such, etc.  It would be
odd to take more care than usual in the Jewish case.<

my point was it's useful to know the character of the power structure
(given today's balance of powers) and to know that even _appearing_ to
be anti-Semitic will bring down a sh*t-storm of foolishness.

left out of my previous missive because I didn't have time: Some
criticize the phenomenon of "identity politics" as being standard
"special interest" pleading, etc. What's interesting is that
pro-Israeli nationalism is one of the most successful forms of
identity politics. Because it's so successful, criticizing it is often
seen as racist (anti-Semitic) even among the general U.S. population
(outside the circle of us leftoid fringies).

JD