Many commentators who argue in favor of the Palestinian cause base themselves on an assumption which they never voice and which, perhaps, they are not entirely conscious. That assumption is that Israelis are morally superior to Palestinians and, in political terms, more intelligent than them. There follow a couple of examples of what I mean.
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John Pilger and the Enabling of Antisemitism
This is a guest post by David Adler.
To find journalist-ideologue John Pilger ranting about “the criminality of the Israeli state” and “the murderous, racist toll of Zionism” is all too routine. (Hat tip Oliver Kamm.) What’s new is this: Pilger trots out “the expatriate Israeli musician Gilad Atzmon” as a representative good Jew, emblematic of “the heroes of Israel” and “the moral courage of Israeli dissidents.” Either Pilger is fool enough to be unaware of Atzmon’s vicious anti-Jewish bigotry, or he has consciously praised an apologist for the Third Reich, who has declared:
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