Comments on: What Does Roger Cohen Want? http://blog.z-word.com/2009/05/what-does-roger-cohen-want/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Wed, 23 May 2012 09:10:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: PB http://blog.z-word.com/2009/05/what-does-roger-cohen-want/#comment-5202 PB Wed, 27 May 2009 05:49:47 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1286#comment-5202 Great piece, but Cohen is even more unsavoury than that, if today's piece in the NYT is any indicator. Apparently not satisfied with being an apologist for Iran, he now does it for China and Vietnam. With each column, he comes across as creepy little creature whose main goal is to impress the pseudo-intellectual Chomskyite left. He's not the first journalist or Jew with these aspirations, so we shouldn't be surprised. Great piece, but Cohen is even more unsavoury than that, if today’s piece in the NYT is any indicator. Apparently not satisfied with being an apologist for Iran, he now does it for China and Vietnam. With each column, he comes across as creepy little creature whose main goal is to impress the pseudo-intellectual Chomskyite left. He’s not the first journalist or Jew with these aspirations, so we shouldn’t be surprised.

]]> By: vildechaye http://blog.z-word.com/2009/05/what-does-roger-cohen-want/#comment-5178 vildechaye Mon, 25 May 2009 19:49:24 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1286#comment-5178 Great piece, but Cohen is even more unsavoury than that, if today's piece in the NYT is any indicator. Apparently not satisfied with being an apologist for Iran, he now does it for China and Vietnam. With each column, he comes across as creepy little creature whose main goal is to impress the pseudo-intellectual Chomskyite left. He's not the first journalist or Jew with these aspirations, so we shouldn't be surprised. Great piece, but Cohen is even more unsavoury than that, if today’s piece in the NYT is any indicator. Apparently not satisfied with being an apologist for Iran, he now does it for China and Vietnam. With each column, he comes across as creepy little creature whose main goal is to impress the pseudo-intellectual Chomskyite left. He’s not the first journalist or Jew with these aspirations, so we shouldn’t be surprised.

]]> By: jussef abu gosh http://blog.z-word.com/2009/05/what-does-roger-cohen-want/#comment-5174 jussef abu gosh Mon, 25 May 2009 12:44:22 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1286#comment-5174 Roger Cohen doesn´t care how he attracts attention. Roger Cohen doesn´t care how he attracts attention.

]]> By: Petra http://blog.z-word.com/2009/05/what-does-roger-cohen-want/#comment-5158 Petra Sat, 23 May 2009 02:34:59 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1286#comment-5158 Superb post, Phoebe! ganselmi, what you say about the double life everybody not in total agreement with the regime in Iran is, I think, a very important point -- one that an Iranian friend of mine also always emphasizes. However, the question is of course: how come this apparently escaped an experienced journalist/writer like Cohen??? I don't think it can be explained as a professional glitch or something, that's why Phoebe seems to be spot on to suspect that Roger Cohen is after the "Acceptably-Universalist Jew of the Year Award". Superb post, Phoebe!
ganselmi, what you say about the double life everybody not in total agreement with the regime in Iran is, I think, a very important point — one that an Iranian friend of mine also always emphasizes. However, the question is of course: how come this apparently escaped an experienced journalist/writer like Cohen??? I don’t think it can be explained as a professional glitch or something, that’s why Phoebe seems to be spot on to suspect that Roger Cohen is after the “Acceptably-Universalist Jew of the Year Award”.

]]> By: Michael W. http://blog.z-word.com/2009/05/what-does-roger-cohen-want/#comment-5157 Michael W. Fri, 22 May 2009 23:09:28 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1286#comment-5157 Michael Totten has a great article in Commentary about the Roger Cohen "genre". Here it is: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-huffpo-s-lonely-planet-foreign-policy-15153 Michael Totten has a great article in Commentary about the Roger Cohen “genre”.

Here it is:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-huffpo-s-lonely-planet-foreign-policy-15153

]]> By: The Debate Link http://blog.z-word.com/2009/05/what-does-roger-cohen-want/#comment-5156 The Debate Link Fri, 22 May 2009 23:02:33 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1286#comment-5156 <strong>Such Bravery! Such Courage!...</strong> Phoebe Maltz rocks the house in her analysis of what Roger Cohen wants. Namely, Roger Cohen wants to create a binary between crazed, over-sensitive, parochial, psychologically damaged, neurotic Jews (i.e., every anti-Semite's stereotype of Jews), and.... Such Bravery! Such Courage!…

Phoebe Maltz rocks the house in her analysis of what Roger Cohen wants. Namely, Roger Cohen wants to create a binary between crazed, over-sensitive, parochial, psychologically damaged, neurotic Jews (i.e., every anti-Semite’s stereotype of Jews), and….

]]> By: ganselmi http://blog.z-word.com/2009/05/what-does-roger-cohen-want/#comment-5152 ganselmi Fri, 22 May 2009 15:07:44 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1286#comment-5152 Great piece Pheobe! Jewish community leaders in Iran are forced to decry Israel left and right and to proclaim just how wonderful Jewish life is under the IRI -- otherwise the regime would wreak havoc on them. Mr. Cohen, the 'Code Pink' ladies, sports teams, and others who travel to Iran and come back praising the clerics for their tolerance have to realize that the regime carefully stagemanages what aspects of Iranian life they get to see and which Iranians they get to speak to. Moreover, they have to realize that -- since they live under a true 'society of control' -- Iranians' public pronouncements should always be treated with a grain of salt. All Iranians live dual lives, socially and politically. They may say one thing in public to foreign journalists and visitors, and quite another in private. Still the web can be a good source of information on what really goes on in my homeland -- if Cohen, et al were really interested in what goes on in my homeland. Take, for example, the daily humiliation that Jews experience when they have to mark their stores as being Jewish-owned so that, God forbid, an unsuspecting Iranian does not accidentally conduct a business with a "Kalimi" (Farsi term for Jew)! Or how about the recent selective demolition of SEVEN historical synogogues in Tehran (each of them probably hundreds of years old) under the pretense of "urban development?" (See more here: http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/6884.htm) Great piece Pheobe!

Jewish community leaders in Iran are forced to decry Israel left and right and to proclaim just how wonderful Jewish life is under the IRI — otherwise the regime would wreak havoc on them.

Mr. Cohen, the ‘Code Pink’ ladies, sports teams, and others who travel to Iran and come back praising the clerics for their tolerance have to realize that the regime carefully stagemanages what aspects of Iranian life they get to see and which Iranians they get to speak to.

Moreover, they have to realize that — since they live under a true ’society of control’ — Iranians’ public pronouncements should always be treated with a grain of salt. All Iranians live dual lives, socially and politically. They may say one thing in public to foreign journalists and visitors, and quite another in private.

Still the web can be a good source of information on what really goes on in my homeland — if Cohen, et al were really interested in what goes on in my homeland. Take, for example, the daily humiliation that Jews experience when they have to mark their stores as being Jewish-owned so that, God forbid, an unsuspecting Iranian does not accidentally conduct a business with a “Kalimi” (Farsi term for Jew)! Or how about the recent selective demolition of SEVEN historical synogogues in Tehran (each of them probably hundreds of years old) under the pretense of “urban development?” (See more here: http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/6884.htm)

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