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Well, I dunno, Jeff Blankfort is a local personality on the Mendocino Coast where I live who gets space regularly in Bruce Anderson's, "Anderson Valley Advertiser" (AVA) along with Cockburn and who has an intermittent show on local public radio and who I saw once in person with Cockburn at a talk in town. He is definitely a well intentioned person but in no way would I characterize him as anti-semitic and I have never heard or read him say any bullshit about Jews; in fact he takes pains to do the opposite. He does, however, have a sectarian like predilection to "preach to the choir" which would be tedious enough when beamed to a marxist or sectarian audience, but which falls a little flat when broadcast to the general public, a general public that includes a significant number of leftists for sure, but which primarily is composed of the general public nonetheless. Thus for me this whole barrage on Chomsky, someone I view overall as a real hero, is completely inapposite. Then again I don't run into too many marxists in real life, but do run into a lot of regular folks for whom Chomsky and his ideas are useful in explaining basic realities of the world. Thus overall, as with Ward Churchill, I think we should uphold Chomsky while acknowledging he might not be perfect. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:34 AM, DW <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunatly people like Blankfort have been as detrimental the > anti-Zionist > movement as Chomsky has. In an interview with Indie Media a few years ago, > Blackfort advocated that Jews be excluded from the pro-Palestinian > movement. > He blieves, like Petras, that Jews "control America" and he is notorious > for > "Jew-counting" people in the media to prove his point that Israel > 'controls' > US foreign policy. While not formally a Holocust denier, he's a step a way > from out right denying it took place. > > D. > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
