----- Original Message ----- From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 5:06 PM Subject: Re: Benjamin Netanyahu on Bush's Speech
> At 17:02 27-9-01 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: > > > > I don't disagree that often anti-Semitism can be the source of > > > anti-Israeli commentary, but its not always the case - I doubt its even > > > the majority of the cases. The knee-jerk reaction of the staunch > > > defenders to accuse anyone who criticizes the STATE of such feelings is > > > irresponsible nad serves only to halt intelligent conversation. > > > > > > >Could you please document that with specific posts? > > See the Brin-L archive at YahooGroups (www.yahoogroups.com/group/brin-l), > November/December 1998, particularly (but not limited to) posts by Dan > Minette, Bob Zimmerman and Darryl Shannon. > > And then, Dan, there is an off-list message to me, dated Nov. 24, 1998, > written by you and titled "Your anti-Semitic writings"... > > Do you _really_ want to rehash the Race Bomb thread? In this thread certain people from the Netherlands insisted that Israel was developing a race bomb that kills only Arabs but not Jews. They wouldn't believe anything that people trained in biology said about how impossible that was...for reasons only they could give. I am not sure what J wrote and what S wrote, because I didn't keep 3 year old posts and only titles are available from that far back on yahoo groups. Insisting that a race bomb exists is not just criticism. It is being so blinded by preconceptions that one even denies science when it interferes with those preconceptions. Finally, let me point out, that the private message that you quoted (and it was private...you know...not to be printed publically...because I was trying to be polite) was very careful to state that your writings are anti-Semitic, not you. If you really want everyone to rehash this, then I guess I can get someone to furnish me with copies of 3 year old posts. But, why in the world would you want to drag nonsense like race bombs back into the list now? Dan M.
