--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And criticism of Israel has also been used to mask thinly-veiled > anti-Semitism. It works both ways. > > And just when, exactly, did criticizing policies which > unnecessarily kills civilians get called anti-Semitic? I think > I missed that one.
In the American media, especially in New York, right after the incident I mentioned below. In that incident, Israel dropped an American bomb from an American-built fighter plane on an apartment in which one of the guys on their terrorist "hit list" was staying. He was killed. But so were (as I remember it) about 15 others, all of them civilians, many of them children. When people criticized this action, and the illegal (as defined by treaty) use of American weapons in this action, they were actively called anti-semites in some of the New York press. A Jewish friend had just come to visit me from New York at this time, and he still had the newspapers with him. We read through them together. Even he was shocked and dis- mayed at the use of the term in this way. He felt it weakened, rather than strengthened, the cause of respect for Judaism and the fight against true antisemitism. Unc > On Jul 2, 2005, at 2:13 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > Hey, criticizing the policies of the state of Israel > > when they use a US-supplied bomb to kill a houseful > > of civilians in an attempt to assassinate one guy > > in the house they *suspect* is a terrorist is called > > anti-Semitism these days. > > > > The word is no longer associated with those who hate > > Jews. The word as it's used in modern politics and > > the modern press has, sadly, degenerated into a tool > > used to silence and suppress any criticism of Israel > > and current Israeli policies. George Orwell would be > > laughing in his grave at the Newspeak of it all... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
