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From: Edward Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Forwarded as a courtesy. Please post direct --- to the correct list) (To: Paul RETI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Subject: Anti-Semitism Paul, I am deeply worried about the spread of anti-Semitism from the impact of the violence of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. As a child of WW2 I was inoculated against it by the Holocaust (vividly portrayed immediately after the war in such as the films and pictures of emaciated remnants liberated from the death camps). But I have been distressed to see otherwise caring people from a full range of backgrounds either publicly or covertly turning against Israel for its violence -- and generalizing therefrom to Jews at large. I was in a seminar on women's rights some years back at a time when there had been a report that IDF under Rabin were battering the hands of Palestinian stone throwers. It was a caring group, but this subject came up and there was a break between those who identified with Israel and those who did not that left things not ever really the same. I suspect there is much such sub-terranean feeling now and I know of some explicit -- not just among extreme left groups, but among minorities who identify with the Palestinians. People expect more of Israel because they see it as a kindred state with democratic institutions. But awareness of the past gray areas is increasing, too. Such wild statements as those of Benny Morris, the revisionist historian, who has flip-flopped in weird directions get around: www.counterpunch.org/shavit01162004.html Personally I think that those who give a damn must speak out of their concerns. As Churchill put it: "Jaw jaw is better than war war." I am in touch with and support as best I can the peacemakers on both sides of the green line. Some of these are on a private list to which I send by bcc. They are people who care. I grew up when anti-Semitism was taken for granted in the U.S. And I never again want to see it develop here. And I am equally appalled by the comparable anti-Muslim 'racism' of some supporters of Israel and other Americans as well. Ed Kent -- Anti-Semitism is 'infecting' British politics, MPs warn By Marie Woolf, Chief Political Correspondent The Independent 21 April 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=513622 --- / o o \ PNEWS Topic Specific Portals (Vortals) ===OO=====OO================================================= http://pnews.org/vortal/ New World disOrder and Myth Busters http://g0lem.net/vortal/ Insane Planet and Wacko World http://g0lem.net/portal/ Bad-Ass Truth and TheGolemsPortal http://pnews.org/portal/ Naked Truth and PNEWS Portal ============================================================= \_/ \_/
