Re: Chechnya, Darfur, and Jewish Activism
Michael Pugliese wrote:
You knew about Jeff Weintraub democratic socialist politics from Marc Cooper and if you visited Weintraub’s blog from Cooper’s link.
Yeah I visited it. Seems like the usual Dissentoid crap.
If you followed the UK controversy over the AUT boycott of Israeli academics you’d have known that Engage is a Labour Party aligned org. Any comment on this illustration of Robert Fisk article? http://www.engageonline.org.uk/blog/article.php?id=392 Seen more clearly here http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/Independent%20cover.JPG followed up w/truly fascist images http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2006/04/27/imnotaracistbut.php
This Harry dude is precious. I love this:
Fisk’s response is a familiar one. Merely to raise the possibility of racism in this context is itself a form of insidious censorship. The media is, for this reason - he suggests - rarely critical of Israel. Anti-Israel voices are consistently silenced. “Noam Chomsky, America’s foremost moral philosopher and linguistics academic - he claims [is]so critical of Israel that he does not even have a regular newspaper column”. Fisk himself once got shouted at by Dershowitz during an Irish radio show. And so on.
Except that, of course, this is paranoid nonsense. There is a significant focus on the reporting of Israeli-Palestinian politics, and the media is frequently critical of Israel’s policies. In fact, it is hard to think of any other part of the world which is more closely analysed and commented upon, from all perspectives.
“Harry” is a Brit, right? Does he know anything about the US press? All perspectives? Please.
Doug