Comments on: El País and the Satan-Nation http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/el-pais-and-the-satan-nation/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:24:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Empress Trudy http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/el-pais-and-the-satan-nation/#comment-3472 Empress Trudy Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:41:57 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=983#comment-3472 Sounds like the same drivel from everyone from Glenn Greenwald to Mark Elf. Sounds like the same drivel from everyone from Glenn Greenwald to Mark Elf.

]]> By: Bialik http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/el-pais-and-the-satan-nation/#comment-3469 Bialik Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:01:23 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=983#comment-3469 Stop The War Coalition has a 60 minute documentary on 'apartheid Israel' presented, they tell us, by a Jew. No need to question its claims, then. Stop The War Coalition has a 60 minute documentary on ‘apartheid Israel’ presented, they tell us, by a Jew. No need to question its claims, then.

]]> By: Sabato http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/el-pais-and-the-satan-nation/#comment-3464 Sabato Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:52:09 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=983#comment-3464 "The same allegiance to myth rather than fact may be noted elsewhere in the text when Bassets cites Sylvain Cypel with approval. She’s a French journalist and Bassets is careful to point out that she’s also Jewish." Yes and Tayip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey as cited the "Jewish" antisemite Gilad Atzmon while launching his antisemitic tirade against Israel. Once can't shield oneself from charges of antisemitism because one quotes a Jew anymore than one excuse oneself from charges of murder in an honor killing because the family of the victim approved of the crime. “The same allegiance to myth rather than fact may be noted elsewhere in the text when Bassets cites Sylvain Cypel with approval. She’s a French journalist and Bassets is careful to point out that she’s also Jewish.”

Yes and Tayip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey as cited the “Jewish” antisemite Gilad Atzmon while launching his antisemitic tirade against Israel.

Once can’t shield oneself from charges of antisemitism because one quotes a Jew anymore than one excuse oneself from charges of murder in an honor killing because the family of the victim approved of the crime.

]]> By: jdyer http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/el-pais-and-the-satan-nation/#comment-3463 jdyer Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:48:03 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=983#comment-3463 Denying that one is an antisemite while making antisemitic comments is not unusual. It's a regular trope used by Jew haters to absolve themselves of that charge. Neither, alas, is the claim that one is attacking Jews for their own good: this is an even older Christian trope used to justify persecution. Spanish inqusitors resorted to such claims again and again. They said they wanted to save Jews and other non believers from hell. It is important to keep pointing this out and to expose people like Lluis Bassets as hateful hypocrites. Denying that one is an antisemite while making antisemitic comments is not unusual. It’s a regular trope used by Jew haters to absolve themselves of that charge.

Neither, alas, is the claim that one is attacking Jews for their own good: this is an even older Christian trope used to justify persecution. Spanish inqusitors resorted to such claims again and again. They said they wanted to save Jews and other non believers from hell.

It is important to keep pointing this out and to expose people like Lluis Bassets as hateful hypocrites.

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