Ron Radosh takes apart this ridiculous article by Adam Horowitz and Phillip Weiss from The Nation, which is rapidly emerging as the house journal of the BDS Movement here in America. Inter alia, Radosh notes:
In essence, in identifying the “Arab revolt” approvingly and as a precedent that informs their work today, Weiss and Horowitz are supporting a Nazi inspired terror which took place against the Jews and other Arab Palestinians who did not support the Mufti’s agenda. It’s not only chilling that American students are being subjected to distortions of American history with fallacious analogies, but also that journalists, who purport to be serious about their craft, would distort the truth about the history of boycotts and general strikes during the “Arab revolt” in Palestine.
Phillip Weiss whitewashing the allies of the Nazis? In The Nation? Surely not…
(H/T Soccer Dad.)
When did liberal, Left-wing movement turned from freedom-for-all seekers, to radical racists and haters? Too sad…
At the same time the Mufti launched his violent boycott campaign in Mandate Palestine, the Nazis were boycotting and beating up Jews all over Europe.
The Nation has become a hate magazine no wonder it is in debt.
Keep in mind that Mondoweiss, which is irrefutably anti-Semitic on numerous levels, is “a project of” The Nation Institute.
Just started reading Paul Berman’s _The Flight of the Intellectuals_. This piece from The Nation is so disturbing in light of the history recounted by Berman.
Another sign of the utter and complete moral bankruptcy of vast swaths of the American left, which has helped to the rotting away of many once venerable institutions, including The Nation…
A Jay Adler, I don’t doubt you, but could you please substantiate your comment that Mondoweiss is “irrefutably anti-Semitic”?
James, sorry for the delay in responding. I just had the opportunity to check back. There are a number of reasons for my claim.
1. Mondoweiss is anti-Zionist, which is prima facie anti-Semitic.
2. Mondoweiss actively seeks to demonize and delegitimize Israel. To quote from the recent statement of NGO Monitor’s Anne Herzberg’s to the Irish Parliament’s Joint Committee on European Affairs, “The strategy of transforming Israel into a pariah state is the latest incarnation of the campaign that produced the 1975 UN General Assembly declaration that ‘Zionism is racism’….This singling out of Israel is a form of incitement and in itself appears to be an expression of racism.” However, I would alter “appears to be” to “is.” The form of racism is, of course, specifically anti-Semitism.
3. The culture of the Mondoweiss commenting community, like that of the Guardian’s Comment Is Free, is steeped in anti-Semitic animus.
4. In addition to his own animus against Israel, Phillip Weiss is fixated on notions of disproportionate Jewish (not Israeli lobby) power and influence in the United States.
5. Weiss (a superficial thinker and clumsy writer) has often written naively unselfconscious posts that nakedly expose his own internal cultural identity conflicts, manifested in his relationship with his mother and his sense of the oppressiveness of the American Jewish culture in which he was raised.
I offered an extended blog analysis in The Malice of Mondoweiss: http://sadredearth.com/the-malice-of-mondoweiss/
thanks, will have a gander at your piece
great stuff, thanks