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Parent Article: Unweaving The Tangle: Zionism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism |
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Re: Exercise For The Reader |
by gehrig
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30 Mar 2003
Modified: 02:55:24 PM |
On the off chance that there are still any remedial signs of life in that dead horse I've been beating, here's an exercise for the reader -- parts of an exchange following a post on Indybay. In particular, notice how unhelpful that last "helpful" poster is.
--- From the original post (about antiwar protests at the Oscar ceremony):
By the way, I am so proud of Michael Moore! He fought the urge to take the easy path, and instead used his time in the limelight while accepting his award for "Bowling for Columbine" to say "We are against this war. Shame on you, Mr. Bush!" [...] I had been annoyed that in his film "Bowling for Columbine", a film about American military and violence and our support of it in areas around the world, he neglected to mention the elephant in the room, which is of course, ISRAEL. But I suppose if he had, he would not have been able to make it all the way to the podium in Zionist-dominated Hollywood to say what he said. Obviously, people got his point anyway, about Zionism and it's connection to American violence.
--- From reply one:
Reading this diary/article reminded me once again that for some people, "zionism" is acceptable way to say Jew and that frightens me. [...] I'm been going to many protests against the war in Iraq, writing letters and whatever else I can. I know that Israel and the Palestinian homeland will be centre stage next and I'm glad. I want Palestinians to have a proper homeland and I want Israel to drop politicians like Sharon yesterday. But I am also aware of the racist tones coming into the peace movement's debate. In the same way as I do not approve of anti-war Canadians painting all Americans in the same light as your current government, all Jews are not zionist and not all Jews have the power or clout that this writer seems to be implying.
-- From reply two (note also the misquote):
"'zionism' is acceptable way to say Jew" -- this is total BS. Zionism is to Jews what Nazism is to Germans, an embarassment to an otherwise admirable people.
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