Prof Maxwell in the news

Yup, great plug. Troubling how justifiable resentment against right-wing Israeli policies has morphed into unjustifiable resentment against Israel as a whole, not to mention, by extension, Jews in general.
 
While it shouldn't be that hard to distinguish between the policies of Israel and Jews, that distinction gets lost not only for Palestinians but for many Jews, at least in the US. I was once put on a list of self-hating Jews along with every other Jew who had signed a pretty mom-and-apple pie petition supporting Palestinian statehood.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
While it shouldn't be that hard to distinguish between the policies of Israel and Jews, that distinction gets lost not only for Palestinians but for many Jews, at least in the US. I was once put on a list of self-hating Jews along with every other Jew who had signed a pretty mom-and-apple pie petition supporting Palestinian statehood.
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Israel is partly to blame for that state of affairs, as they've made every effort to conflate the notions of Jewishness with those of Jewish statehood (i.e., Israel). Part of this is a backlash against the repackaging of anti-Semitism as "anti-Zionism," but as the push to build settlements in the West Bank has grown, reasoned arguments against such expansion has been labeled as anti-Semitic.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
While it shouldn't be that hard to distinguish between the policies of Israel and Jews, that distinction gets lost not only for Palestinians but for many Jews, at least in the US. I was once put on a list of self-hating Jews along with every other Jew who had signed a pretty mom-and-apple pie petition supporting Palestinian statehood.
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Israel is partly to blame for that state of affairs, as they've made every effort to conflate the notions of Jewishness with those of Jewish statehood (i.e., Israel). Part of this is a backlash against the repackaging of anti-Semitism as "anti-Zionism," but as the push to build settlements in the West Bank has grown, reasoned arguments against such expansion has been labeled as anti-Semitic.

Mark Lipton
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Well, this is true for the Likud party in Israel, along with American Jews who construe any disagreement with Israeli policy as ipso facto anti-semitic. It is, nevertheless, also true that the line between anti-Zionism (which, again, can be distinguished from opposition to Israeli policies with regard to occupied territory) and anti-semitism, which Arab nationalist groups worked somewhat harder to keep clearer in the 80s, is now almost completely non-existent, which accounts for what is happening in Europe.
 
Thanks for the link.

The story appearing yesterday almost made up for the fact that I spent all day in massive airplane/airport delays on my way back to the US from England. And I missed all connections so am now at the airport at an ungodly hour (for me) to get a flight to NC.

But, on the positive side, tomorrow is Friday. A wine day!
 
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