[lbo-talk] Gaza and anti-Semitism

[James Heartfield]

Shane Mage writes: "Furedi pretends not to know that the Zionists and their 
police allies will do anything to smear anyone who dissents from Zionist 
slaughter as an antisemite, Jewish or not."

Steady on, the opening sentences of the article quoted were

"I HAVE always criticised the tendency of some Zionist commentators to 
dismiss all criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic.
Such a defensive knee-jerk reaction simply avoids confronting the issues and 
undermines the possibility of dialogue."

I suggest you look at the picture I posted again, and then tell me that it 
is not a problem for people on the left to march alongside it and say 
nothing:

http://www.spiked-online.com/images/baby_eater.gif

http://www.spiked-online.com/images/baby_eater2.gif

Nobody here is saying that these stupidities justify what Israel does, or 
should stop us opposing Israel's war, but radicals have a responsibility to 
address the problems in their own movement.