"If an effective strategy [for fighting Israel] means that some truths about the Jews don't come to light, I don't care. If an effective strategy means encouraging reasonable anti-Semitism, or reasonable hostility to Jews, I also don't care. If it means encouraging vicious, racist anti-Semitism, or the destruction of the state of Israel, I still don't care."
Michael Neumann, a son of Franz, frequent Counterpunch contributor, in an e-mail exchange with The Jewish Tribal Review, a neo-Nazi rag. ======================================= AS: C'mon, if you're gonna post this, you should source it.
Here's what Wikipedia had to say about Neumann and the JTR controversy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Neumann
Jewish Tribal Review controversy Jewish Tribal Review (JTR) is a website which claims to "document Jewish and Zionist influence on popular culture, economics and politics." JTR became interested in Michael Neumann's writing, and in late 2002 started an email dialogue with him. JTR asked for Neumann's participation in their activities, but Neumann, who considers JTR anti-Semitic, [10] refused to participate. Subsequently JTR created a page publishing their alleged email exchange [1]without Neumann's permission [11]. This email got widespread attention in August 2003 when the National Post published one of Neumann's most inflammatory passages about Jews and Israel, [12], prompting complaints from the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC). [13] In September, 2003, Neumann sent a letter of regret to the CJC. According to the Peterborough Examiner, [14] "Congress chairman Ed Morgan, who accepted the letter of regret from Neumann, told The Examiner he wants the letter to close the matter." On his Israel-Palestine page [2], Neumann includes a detailed "reply to the Canadian Jewish Congress concerning objections to material which appeared on the Jewish Tribal Review web site". [3]
and here's the statement by Neumann that Wikipedia linked to...
http://members.tripod.com/~mneumann/cjctripo.txt
I haven't read it; the following paragraph jumped out at me...
"Take the material that has caused the most outrage, a private email correspondence allegedly reproduced on the Jewish Tribal Review site. I have never denied that such a correspondence occurred, but only said the truth: that the site is not to be trusted, and that, lacking the original emails, I cannot vouch for its accuracy. I am distressed that the CJC has made so much of the material, not because it embarrasses me, but because it legitimates a truly poisonous, truly antisemitic site. I will commen t on the material as if it were accurate, because that is the only way I can refute the claims made on its basis. However at the same time I repudiate that material. No one has disputed that it was published, not only without my consent, but against my express wishes."
Where did you pull your quote from, Michael? I don't have time to comb all the links at Wikipedia...
aaron
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