Comments on: Naomi Klein Wants to Mainstream the Boycott http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/naomi-klein-wants-to-mainstream-the-boycott/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Tue, 22 May 2012 16:29:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Petra http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/naomi-klein-wants-to-mainstream-the-boycott/#comment-3180 Petra Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:23:52 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=866#comment-3180 jdyer thanks for this very interesting link; I think you're right that some of the positions described in this review could be easily identified in Klein's writings. However, I think that some of the appeal of this whole outlook is a certain elitism, and that's in part why I was surprised to see that with her call for a boycott against Israel Klein was really trying very hard to appeal to the mainstream by conveying the message: don't worry about all the reasons you've heard why a boycott is not OK; trust me, it's OK to boycott Israel -- to me there was really a creepy manipulative undertone to it. jdyer
thanks for this very interesting link; I think you’re right that some of the positions described in this review could be easily identified in Klein’s writings. However, I think that some of the appeal of this whole outlook is a certain elitism, and that’s in part why I was surprised to see that with her call for a boycott against Israel Klein was really trying very hard to appeal to the mainstream by conveying the message: don’t worry about all the reasons you’ve heard why a boycott is not OK; trust me, it’s OK to boycott Israel — to me there was really a creepy manipulative undertone to it.

]]> By: jdyer http://blog.z-word.com/2009/01/naomi-klein-wants-to-mainstream-the-boycott/#comment-3172 jdyer Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:50:47 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=866#comment-3172 This what people like Naomi Klein are supporting: From the article: “A Revivified Corpse: Left-Fascism in the Twenty-First Century” by Ernest Sternberg “The most remarkable feature of the cult of Empire-hatred is that it produces disdain for those whose suffering does not meet the cult's attribution of global evil. Exhibit number one is Darfur. Though an "an ocean of indifference and cowardice" condemned the Darfuris, the anti-liberals, anti-imperialists, and anti-globalists "earned a special distinction" (p. 141). It is this anti-imperial obsession that makes Rony Brauman, onetime president of Doctors Without Borders and author of the French postscript to Norman Finkelstein's Holocaust Industry, "blind and deaf to the tragedy of the Darfuris" (p. 137). Brauman, Robert Nesbitt, Noam Chomsky, and other intellectuals turn strangely silent on Darfur or attribute the whole hullabaloo to an American or Zionist plot. The NGO anti-racism meeting in Durban in 2001 mustered the crowds to chant "One Jew, one bullet," but cold-shouldered the Africans who wanted to spotlight Rwanda genocides; forgot the plight of the 260 million Dalit untouchables; ignored the cause of the Roma in Eastern Europe; and omitted from its final declaration the massacres in Chechnya and the Balkans….” http://www.telospress.com/main/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=288&zenid=ca33e9c6fa4a84cb3646baa0ac31af6c This what people like Naomi Klein are supporting:

From the article: “A Revivified Corpse:
Left-Fascism in the Twenty-First Century”
by Ernest Sternberg

“The most remarkable feature of the cult of Empire-hatred is that it produces disdain for those whose suffering does not meet the cult’s attribution of global evil. Exhibit number one is Darfur. Though an “an ocean of indifference and cowardice” condemned the Darfuris, the anti-liberals, anti-imperialists, and anti-globalists “earned a special distinction” (p. 141).
It is this anti-imperial obsession that makes Rony Brauman, onetime president of Doctors Without Borders and author of the French postscript to Norman Finkelstein’s Holocaust Industry, “blind and deaf to the tragedy of the Darfuris” (p. 137). Brauman, Robert Nesbitt, Noam Chomsky, and other intellectuals turn strangely silent on Darfur or attribute the whole hullabaloo to an American or Zionist plot. The NGO anti-racism meeting in Durban in 2001 mustered the crowds to chant “One Jew, one bullet,” but cold-shouldered the Africans who wanted to spotlight Rwanda genocides; forgot the plight of the 260 million Dalit untouchables; ignored the cause of the Roma in Eastern Europe; and omitted from its final declaration the massacres in Chechnya and the Balkans….”

http://www.telospress.com/main/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=288&zenid=ca33e9c6fa4a84cb3646baa0ac31af6c

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