I am somewhat ambivalent about answering Spiked online since so few
people nowadays, especially them, view it as having anything to do with
the left. With the exception of James Heartfield, just about every
contributor to Spiked has stopped pretending to be part of the left.
However, since they are in the habit of writing “critiques” of the left,
particularly the activist sector that organizes mass demonstrations
against the war in Iraq and more lately the war on Gaza, it is worth
responding to them.
Spiked online accuses protestors of anti-Semitism, a charge that is also
being mounted at notoriously pro-imperialist outlets such as Harry’s
Place, it is worth countering them here. Ultimately, one of the main
defenses of the Zionist propaganda machine is that Israel’s critics are
anti-Semitic. It is rather sad that ex-leftists involved with Spiked can
get on board the Zionist propaganda machine but this would not be the
first time that radicals have traveled this route. Just read Richard
Seymour’s “The Liberal Defense of Murder”, a book that I am about
half-way through now, to get the big picture.
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/spiked-onlines-obsession-with-anti-semitism/
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