[lbo-talk] [Pen-l] Israel moves closer to a single-state solution

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 09:25:18 PDT 2014


Carrol Cox correctly noted on the PEN-L list that my use of the the phrase "institutional racism" is inexact and confusing. Switch it out for "explicit racism" if you would.

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Contrary to the fears expressed by their liberal counterparts, these
>> right-wing Zionists do not believe they will have to choose between
>> demography and democracy; they’re convinced they can both grant formal
>> citizenship rights to the West Bank Palestinians while retaining a Jewish
>> majority in their realized vision of a Greater Israel spanning both banks
>> of the Jordan River.
>
>
> One small, insignificant quibble: These "liberals" are full advocates of
> institutional racism, in a way that has few equivalents anywhere near the
> political mainstreams of North America or Western Europe. As little as I
> think of our liberals, I'd still use scare quotes or something to set this
> brood apart from 'em.
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
>

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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