The reality that information is a weapon of war, a tool of contention and conflict, is as old as the first time someone said, “He went that way,” and lied. Hold whatever finely nuanced position you like on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but unless you are an antisemitic rationalizer of antisemitism, or vastly uninformed, the fact […]
Scratch an Anti-Zionist
It isn’t just that to anyone not already disabled by bias the truth about Helen Thomas was readily apparent in her go back where they came from remarks. It was also that there were those, as always there are, who having convinced themselves that their own political animus is other and innocent, found over interpretation […]
“If that’s antisemitic, count me in.”
Not long after I published my previous post on “The Faces of Antisemitism,” I received the following tweet from @BarryLeonardini. American foreign policy is self destructive because of its unqualified support of israel.If that’s antisemitic, count me in. [sic] Somehow Barry Leonardi and I had become Twitter friends. (The neighborhood is going to the dogs […]
The Faces of Antisemitism Today
Most bigotries, counter-intuitively, circulate quite brazenly among us, though sometimes dressed as salvation: save a culture, save a race, save a nation. That last these days, in the U.S., takes the form of saving us from the foreign policy error of standing by the lone outpost of democracy and liberal, enlightenment values in what is […]
Israel, Iran, “Social Activists” & the World We Live In
The event occurred in September. The video first hit YouTube in October. Over the past week it has been appearing on various blogs, though generally speaking only blogs with a dedicated or regular focus on Israel and Jewish issues. There is an old lesson in that, right there. My hat tip goes to Z World […]