With his radio show, his magazine and his arthouse cinema, Oscar Cuervo is something of a one man culture industry in the city of Buenos Aires. He has lately started to take an interest in the Israel-Palestine conflict and in a recent post at his blog he sets about the quixotic task of denying that there has been any recrudescence of antisemitism in Argentina lately.
As I reported last week, Fatima Hajaig, the Deputy Foreign Minister of South Africa, delivered a speech at a Palestine solidarity rally that could have been scripted by a sub-editor on Der Sturmer. “The control of America, just like the control of most Western countries, is in the hands of Jewish money,” she screamed, “and if Jewish money controls their country then you cannot expect anything else.”
Hajaig has now offered…what, exactly? A clarification? An apology? A restatement of her original remarks?
Continue reading ‘Fatima Hajaig: “I Meant to Say Zionists, Not Jews”’
“…as some people who don’t like Jews have found, it’s worth acknowledging the Holocaust if you can then turn it into a cudgel against the Jews. And that they’ve done, in spades. According to this crowd, the Jews today have become Nazis. The Jewish state is now supposedly carrying out a Holocaust against the Palestinians. Jews, the haters say, have always been evil, and their evil is only growing.”
Read Walter Reich in the Washington Post.
There was a major dispute between the government of Argentina and the farm sector last year over an attempt by the former to increase export tariffs. It dragged on for months and during the course of it a large group of intellectuals got together to draft and publish an open letter in support of the government.
Continue reading ‘Gaza: Argentine Intellectuals Have Their Say’
This is a guest post by Michelle Sieff.
The New York Times has exposed Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi as a purveyor of fiction when it comes to the Middle East conflict.
Descending into the subway station at 125th Street, in the heart of Harlem, on Sunday afternoon, I spied a poster emblazoned with the words “From Harlem to Gaza - We Are All Palestinians.”
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Under the headline “The Hunt Has Begun”, there’s a report here in El País about the rising wave of xenophobia in Italy. It makes particular note of the efforts of the Italian government to vilify Roma people by wildly exaggerating their involvement in crime and by tolerating violence against them.
As we mentioned here yesterday, on Friday night an armed gang made up of about 15 people took over and vandalized a synagogue in Caracas. While in control of the building they vandalized its library and study rooms, threw objects and scrolls sacred to Jews on the floor, painted antisemitic slogans on the walls and urinated wherever the urge took them.
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