> Giving voice to anti-Semitism, by Frank Furedi
Hmm. Dunno. Yesterday I read something by somebody who was at the Paris demonstration (80,000) and he noted that "Mohamed Mechmache, president of the group AC-Le-Feu [which is supposed to mobilize the banlieusards, many of them Muslims] warned against any 'appeal to hatred' which could distort the demonstration." [http://tinyurl.com/8pjswo]
> During a demonstration earlier this month, the Dutch Socialist Party
> MP Harry van Bommel called for a new intifada against Israel. Of
> course he has every right to express this political standpoint.
> However, he became an accomplice of the anti-Semites by choosing to do
> nothing when he heard chants of "Hamas, Hamas, all Jews to the gas"
> and similar anti-Jewish slogans.
I've never seen anyone claim evidence that van Bommel even heard the
chants of this (I think) one lone veiled woman. Is there any?
Much of this piece seems redolent of anti-guy-with-a-sign-ism.
SA