My comment at The Independent to the article I posted earlier:
How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago
end up throwing filth at cowering Palestinians?
Johann Hari, Independent, 28 April 2008
Last year, Schocken published a set of Hannah Arendt’s WW2 and immediate post-WW2 essays and newspaper articles. Well-known from her writing at that time is her extreme dislike for the Revisionists (now not only Likud but also half of Kadima) whom she had no hesitation in describing as fascists. Also, she seems to have felt that nazism was not really a form of anti-Semitism at all, but the first instance of a new and completely generalisable move towards a totalitarian political culture that would use selective genocide quite routinely all over the world, if it was allowed to develop and normalise itself. This was the most unpardonable insult to zionism, since it denied the uniqueness of the Jewish experience. She also disliked Herzl, because of his exploitation of anti-Semitism. Today the Anglo-American White Right is a paradoxical ally of this process, which simultaneously exploits the revulsion it causes world-wide as proof of “innate anti-Semitism.” It’s worth rediscovering her.
Posted by Rowan Berkeley | 28.04.08, 18:50 GMT
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“simultaneously exploits the revulsion it causes world-wide as proof of “innate anti-Semitism.”
The anti-semitism jibe is in the news in Oz today.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2233083.htm
The term “jew” was used in the colloquial or cultural sense suggesting thriftyness and the complainant took it as a slur on his character and demands that the mayor resign!
The mayor did apologise for any inadvertent offense caused but nothing less than his resignation will mollify the person taking offense.
The retribution the offendee prescribes is manifestly excessive and excessively intimidating.
This demonstrates the power of the faux moral high ground adopted by the Israel right or wrong crowd.
It stifles robust debate and does nothing to enhance Israel’s prestige.
The “whinging pom” is in danger of losing his preminence in the whinging stakes!