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"This is a fine example of careless writing that means nothing." Actually, it means EVERYTHING, because Smith's writing style triggered my memory of what he had done in the past, and made me suspicious (and correctly so) that this was the same Michael Smith who reminded my dad of Goebbels. Oh, I suppose I could check as to the particular excuse Smith had for bashing Timmerman, but ultimately it was the usual anti-Semitic crap. That was the point, after all. In the 1980s, I was active in the Generation After ( a children of Holocaust survivors group) and New Jewish Agenda, and apart from my father, I saw what Bailey and then then-wife, Nellie Hester, were up to. I used my program at WBAI radio, along with Leonard Lopate's "Round Midnight" talk show, to expose the blatant anti-Semitism (not anti-Zionism) that Bailey was propounding. In these efforts, I was aided by journalists Dennis King and Katie Morgan, who were at one time members of the Columbia Tenants Union. On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Sheldon Ranz via Marxism < > [email protected]> wrote: > > The CTU, as headed by Bruce Bailey, >> was a notorious anti-Semitic outfit. > > > Not to put too fine a point on it, but that was always your dad's claim > (and, at one point, the position of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, > although they'd stopped saying it by the time I got there). It might be > true, but I'd want to hear more about it before I take anyone's word on it. > > >> The flip, amoral tone that you have employed In your reading of Israel >> Shamir's piece sounded familiar, and then I remembered it from your piece >> in Heights and Valley News condemning Jacobo Timerman. the Argentine >> Jewish >> publisher of La Opinion, tortured both as a Jew and an anti-fascist by the >> military regime and who went on to condemn Israel's war against Lebanon. >> > > This is a fine example of careless writing that means nothing. You've > completely neglected why Michael condemned him, whether the charges were > valid or baseless, etc. The biography of Timerman (whom I know nothing > about) may be admirable, but is completely beside the point. > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen > lytlað." > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
