You completely misrepresent the body of my research and writing over the past 30 years and then criticize me based on your false, superficial, malicious, or ignorant claims.
I have written about not just antisemitism but I also wrote a series of aricles about Islamophobia including one where I took Daniel Pipes to task for his bigotry. I have been on record for over a decade with criticsm of the Islamophobia of Steven Emerson.i
I just wrote several articles on training of anti-terrorism agents by Islamophobes.
I an in the middle of a two year research project looking at both antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus.
In my article on the Tea Parties for the Progressive Magazine I criticized liberal denunciations of the participants as ignorant and crazy, but also pointed out the racism and xenophobia of many paticipants by interviewing several immigrant rights activists. My claim that there was racism and xenophobia in the Tea Party Movement has been verified by social science data and polling.
I have written about government intelligence abuse since the early 1970s, and helped compile the FBI documents table for the book "Agents of Repression." I am a vice-president of the Defending Disesent Foundation.
I have written about the dangerous views of the neocons and explained their role in promotiong neoliberalism and militarism.
I write about the flaws of centrist/extremist theories and the way in which they demonize dissidents on the left and right.
You claims here are false and malicious. They are personal attacks. I do not care if you are ignorant, lazy, a liar, or a provocateur.
There is nothing of actual substance in your rants to respond to.
-Chip Berlet
> "CB: In the following statement you seem to accuse Chip Berlet of conning
> people
> out of their money by exaggerating the threat of fascistic organizing.
> That
> would be "personal".
>
>
> David Green :
> you're concerned about the economics of what sort of hate will benefit
> your
> bottom line--as does the SPLC. "
>
> DG: this statement above occurred subsequent to my initial substantive
> criticism, and this mature response from Berlet:
>
> "Nice that you have this opportunity to vent you spleen at my expense. As
> a
> reporter I thought accuracy was important. American Renaissance is an ugly
> racist group, but it just is not organizationally antisemitic. I arrived
> at my
> conclusion independently of Mark Potok%2