On her consistently excellent blog, Petra Marquardt-Bigman takes aim at the activists of London University’s Goldsmith’s college who draw a seamless line between the Warsaw Ghetto and what they describe as the Gaza “Ghetto.”
Archive for the 'false analogies' Category
The triangular debate between Norman Geras, Martin Shaw and Engage over the extent to which attitudinal antisemitism is a factor in the academic boycott campaign has continued. I want to weigh in on one point.
José Manuel Sánchez Gordillo is a member of the regional parliament of Andalucía for the United Left/Greens/Andalucía’s Call party and mayor of the town of Marinaleda. In this story in today’s El País, the paper’s Jerusalem correspondent Juan Miguel Muñoz describes how, while returning home from Israel after accompanying a number of Palestinian children back to the West Bank after a holiday in Spain, he was “humiliated” by the security procedures at Ben Gurion Airport and subjected to “every kind of mistreatment, including being obliged to take off his shoes, having his belongings searched in an abusive manner and being questioned at length about his activities.”
Continue reading ‘José Manuel Sánchez Gordillo and Pseudo-Martyrdom’
Over at Harry’s Place a commenter called Tangoko, responding to a piece by Ben says,
In NI [Northern Ireland] it was impossible to meet the mutually exclusive demands of both groups in the same territory (for exclusive sovereignty) nor was it possible to partition again what had been partitioned. So they have to share sovereignty and power whether they like it or not. And believe me many do not.
The urge to draw analogies, many of them of dubious merit, between the present situation of the Palestinian people and the past one of the Jewish people seems to be too strong for many commentators to resist. A case in point is Gustavo Faverón Patriau, a Peruvian academic and literary critic who teaches in the United States. His blog focuses on literature and culture and is reputed to be one of the most widely read on these topics in the Spanish-speaking world.
