On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
> Because of course there is no way that anti-Semites would be
> interested in defying a Jewish state. In fact, anti-Semitism doesn't
> really exist at all! It's all an Israeli provocation.
In his NYPL debate with BHL, Zizek makes the point that anti-Semites can love Israel, because it collects all the Jews in a single place, far away, and because - and this is of course more provocative - creating a militarized Jewish state undoes so many of the things that anti-Semites despise about Jews (or their fantasy of The Jew): rootlessness, cosmopolitanism, intellectualism, radicalism, etc.
Doug