[lbo-talk] An Iranian Woman Comments on Scott McLemee's Crooked Timber Blog Entry

Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 04:45:33 PST 2007


On 2/16/07, www.leninology. blogspot.com <leninology at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yoshie wrote:
>
> > The tenth comment on Scott's Crooked Timber blog entry by an Iranian
> > woman (reproduced below), as well as comments by a person who goes by
> > "abb1," is very interesting. -- Yoshie
>
> Laleh is probably the SOAS-based Iranian writer Laleh Khalili:
> http://www.iranian.com/khalili.html

If that's her, I have read one of her many articles about the Palestinian refugees' practice of commemoration. Iranian leftists, whether they are secular or Muslim, are a lot more sympathetic toward the Palestinians than Iranian liberals (though even Iranian liberals seem unable to swallow the neo-con line on Israel wholesale -- recall the delightful episode of Akbar Ganji getting heckled in Hollywood for his remark on US support for Israel, a Time Magazine article about which was posted here by Sepideh: ". . . Ganji seemed to hit a raw nerve when he appeared to equate Jewish (and Christian) fundamentalists with Islamic extremists. 'The U.S. has to stop its one-sided support of Israel,' said Ganji, speaking in a large screening room adorned with an original Jasper Johns and other post-modernist art. That comment and others raised the hackles of many in attendance, including multibillionaire media mogul Haim Saban, who asked, 'When was the last time you saw a Christian or a Jew put a belt around their stomach, go on a bus, and kill innocent women and children?'" [at <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2006/2006-August/015540.html>]). -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>



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