Comments on: Melbourne Tells Ken Loach to Get Lost http://blog.z-word.com/2009/07/melbourne-tells-ken-loach-to-get-lost/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:10:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Michael B http://blog.z-word.com/2009/07/melbourne-tells-ken-loach-to-get-lost/#comment-6003 Michael B Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:26:39 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1362#comment-6003 "Do you all support the murder of Palestinian civilians?!" Benjamin Solah So, you're advocating against Hamas's use of civilians as human shields? Or are advocating against Hamas tunneling under the Philadelphi corridor immediately adjacent to U.N. schools? Or are advocating Hamas not store their munitions in civilian centers, in mosques and schools and private homes? Or are advocating Hamas not enculturate their entire population in hatred from the earliest ages and forward, throughout their society? Or are advocating against Hamas & Co. firing their munitions from within civilian centers? Or are advocating against Hamas firing into Israeli civilian centers over a protracted period, over a period of years? Other questions still, come to mind, but that's a beginning. “Do you all support the murder of Palestinian civilians?!” Benjamin Solah

So, you’re advocating against Hamas’s use of civilians as human shields?

Or are advocating against Hamas tunneling under the Philadelphi corridor immediately adjacent to U.N. schools?

Or are advocating Hamas not store their munitions in civilian centers, in mosques and schools and private homes?

Or are advocating Hamas not enculturate their entire population in hatred from the earliest ages and forward, throughout their society?

Or are advocating against Hamas & Co. firing their munitions from within civilian centers?

Or are advocating against Hamas firing into Israeli civilian centers over a protracted period, over a period of years?

Other questions still, come to mind, but that’s a beginning.

]]> By: ganselmi http://blog.z-word.com/2009/07/melbourne-tells-ken-loach-to-get-lost/#comment-5990 ganselmi Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:35:23 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1362#comment-5990 "It’s a bit naive to label anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism. Many Jews have been opposed to Israel, and a lot didn’t support its creation." One logical fallacy and false assumption after another. “It’s a bit naive to label anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism. Many Jews have been opposed to Israel, and a lot didn’t support its creation.”

One logical fallacy and false assumption after another.

]]> By: Benjamin Solah http://blog.z-word.com/2009/07/melbourne-tells-ken-loach-to-get-lost/#comment-5985 Benjamin Solah Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:17:45 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1362#comment-5985 I love Ken Loach. The right approach! It's disgusting that the MIFF is accepting money from war criminals. Do you all support the murder of Palestinian civilians?! It's a bit naive to label anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism. Many Jews have been opposed to Israel, and a lot didn't support its creation. As if all Jews are Israeli, or even all Israelis are Jews. I love Ken Loach. The right approach!

It’s disgusting that the MIFF is accepting money from war criminals. Do you all support the murder of Palestinian civilians?!

It’s a bit naive to label anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism. Many Jews have been opposed to Israel, and a lot didn’t support its creation. As if all Jews are Israeli, or even all Israelis are Jews.

]]> By: Friday Roundup « The New Centrist http://blog.z-word.com/2009/07/melbourne-tells-ken-loach-to-get-lost/#comment-5981 Friday Roundup « The New Centrist Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:27:23 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1362#comment-5981 [...] Melbourne tells Ken Loach to get lost Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)What’s at Your Farmers’ [...] […] Melbourne tells Ken Loach to get lost Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)What’s at Your Farmers’ […]

]]> By: Charlie H. Ettinson http://blog.z-word.com/2009/07/melbourne-tells-ken-loach-to-get-lost/#comment-5962 Charlie H. Ettinson Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:39:54 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1362#comment-5962 On the subject of blackmail, isn't that all a boycott with political aims is? Isn't it merely a threat to do or not do something until the other party changes? Perhaps blackmail is the most appropriate term to use in countering those who advocate the boycotting of Israel on any level and in any forum. On the subject of blackmail, isn’t that all a boycott with political aims is? Isn’t it merely a threat to do or not do something until the other party changes? Perhaps blackmail is the most appropriate term to use in countering those who advocate the boycotting of Israel on any level and in any forum.

]]> By: JIll http://blog.z-word.com/2009/07/melbourne-tells-ken-loach-to-get-lost/#comment-5954 JIll Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:24:49 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1362#comment-5954 Loach's actions are digusting. Well done MIFF for not bowing to this antiSemitic shill. EIFF could learn a big lesson here. Loach’s actions are digusting. Well done MIFF for not bowing to this antiSemitic shill.

EIFF could learn a big lesson here.

]]> By: ganselmi http://blog.z-word.com/2009/07/melbourne-tells-ken-loach-to-get-lost/#comment-5936 ganselmi Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:15:39 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1362#comment-5936 As a passionate cinephile, I'm disgusted by Loach's actions and statements which, to me, seem to betray what is best in cinema as a medium. As a passionate cinephile, I’m disgusted by Loach’s actions and statements which, to me, seem to betray what is best in cinema as a medium.

]]> By: Jacob http://blog.z-word.com/2009/07/melbourne-tells-ken-loach-to-get-lost/#comment-5918 Jacob Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:58:03 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1362#comment-5918 Leftist Jews who traffic in anti-zionism and would like to give a pass to people like Loach need to read this review: "Claude Lanzmann's liberated memories" "Claude Lanzmann belongs to a breed of Jew rare in England: defiant rather than discreet. At once Parisian and globetrotting, he combines remnants of leftist sympathies (the Soviet Union was for a long time “comme un ciel sur ma tête”) with defence of Israel. His films Pourquoi Israel? and Tsahal (about the Israeli Defence Force) celebrate both Jewish survival against the odds and the reappropriation of manliness after centuries of sufferance, study and “huckstering”, as a famous apostate put it. Lanzmann’s reference to “drones” – the unmanned aircraft used in modern warfare – as “une merveilleuse invention israélienne” is just the kind of remark to nettle the bien-pensants." http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6665894.ece Leftist Jews who traffic in anti-zionism and would like to give a pass to people like Loach need to read this review:

“Claude Lanzmann’s liberated memories”

“Claude Lanzmann belongs to a breed of Jew rare in England: defiant rather than discreet. At once Parisian and globetrotting, he combines remnants of leftist sympathies (the Soviet Union was for a long time “comme un ciel sur ma tête”) with defence of Israel. His films Pourquoi Israel? and Tsahal (about the Israeli Defence Force) celebrate both Jewish survival against the odds and the reappropriation of manliness after centuries of sufferance, study and “huckstering”, as a famous apostate put it. Lanzmann’s reference to “drones” – the unmanned aircraft used in modern warfare – as “une merveilleuse invention israélienne” is just the kind of remark to nettle the bien-pensants.”

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6665894.ece

]]> By: bill http://blog.z-word.com/2009/07/melbourne-tells-ken-loach-to-get-lost/#comment-5914 bill Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:49:10 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1362#comment-5914 Congratulations Melbourne ! Congratulations Melbourne !

]]> By: Jacob http://blog.z-word.com/2009/07/melbourne-tells-ken-loach-to-get-lost/#comment-5905 Jacob Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:18:51 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1362#comment-5905 Calling Ken Loach' attempt to blackmail Jewish filmakers blackmail is a start. There is an even more urgent need to deligitimize people like him who are trying to make antisemitism respectable and even cool. Ken Loach is an antisemitic bigot and he shouldn't get a pass because he is on the left. As Bernard Henri Levi has shown much contemporaty antisemitism in Europe from Holocaust denial to anti-Zionism is being driven by leftists like Loach. Calling Ken Loach’ attempt to blackmail Jewish filmakers blackmail is a start.

There is an even more urgent need to deligitimize people like him who are trying to make antisemitism respectable and even cool.

Ken Loach is an antisemitic bigot and he shouldn’t get a pass because he is on the left.

As Bernard Henri Levi has shown much contemporaty antisemitism in Europe from Holocaust denial to anti-Zionism is being driven by leftists like Loach.

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