(A guest post by Mina Khanlarzadeh.)
This piece, of course, is not defending Ahmadinejad, the
politically schizophrenic man whose hands are stained from the
blood of the innocent people of Iran. But I can’t help but comment
on Juan Cole’s blog post since he makes several gravely wrong points.
Juan Cole accuses Ahmadinejad of being an anti-Semite, quoting
Ahmadinejad’s statement: “Thanks to the grace of God, the
capitalist system founded by the Zionists has reached the end of
its path.” In his critique, Juan Cole says: “But the trope of an
essentialist connection between Jews, capitalism and exploitation
is a commonplace in the literature of anti-Semitism, and is
probably the origin of this bizarre allegation.”
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/in-reply-to-juan-cole/
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