COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY OWEN JONES IN THE GUARDIAN
"Antisemitism is
a poison – the left must take leadership against it"
Owen Jones, I don't quite know what to say about such an idiotic
assertion.
To whom do you think you are preaching? Those who genuinely
are anti-Semitic – just as those with other special hates - are certainly not
going to heed or even read your prattle.
And why in God's name does "the left" have a
special, or any, responsibility here?
I'll tell you where this fraudulent notion of yours comes
from: Israel has always castigated the Left in Western countries.
And why?
Because liberals and progressives have long criticized
Israel's brutal behavior towards the Palestinians, as they very much should do.
A person who embraces liberty and democratic values can
never approve of what Israel has done to the people of Palestine for more than
half a century.
Israel’s leaders know that, so they play the ugly game of
throwing around the epithet “anti-Semitism.”
We even get books written about imagined contemporary huge
increases in “anti-Semitism,” when an honest author would call it what is, an
increase in the abhorrence of the government of Israel.
The government of Israel has so overplayed its hand for
years in this – always, mind you, supported by the press, as here with Owen
Jones – that the epithet literally is losing not only its force, it is losing its
meaning.
So, despite the historical fact that real anti-Semitism has
always been associated with the Right, especially the brutally ignorant Right,
we have the Left being charged with anti-Semitism, or in the case of this
column, charged with a special responsibility for anti-Semitism.
Simply outrageous.
You cannot defend what you have written here, just as
Israel’s government – a truly Right-wing, fascist-oriented government which
makes Donald Trump seem open-minded by comparison – cannot sustain its
name-calling nonsense.
