COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY NATALIE NOUGAYREDE IN THE
GUARDIAN
To fight European
antisemitism, we must first face up to it
The attacks following
Trump’s Jerusalem decision are a wake-up call – this prejudice has not gone
away
"To fight
European antisemitism, we must first face up to it"
I believe, Ms. Nougayrède, in logic this is called begging
the question.
If you want to make such assertions, the burden of proof is
on the writer, and the proof must be viable to readers.
But you prove no such thing.
Truly, for those not dedicated to the concept of endlessly
repeating the mantra of anti-Semitism, yours is a meaningless statement.
May I point out that it keeps being repeated, each time with
no more proof than this, by a number of columnists in The Guardian?
One can only guess at the purpose of this.
Keep promoting guilt about what someone else did 75 years
ago?
Keep providing an excuse for what all thoughtful people can
plainly see is unacceptable behavior by Israel?
Absent these, I do not see the point.
We don't ask ourselves or others a comparable question
regularly for Islamophobia or dislike of black people or dislike of Polish
people, do we?
And, indeed, today the question that might be truly pertinent
concerns prejudice against Russians or Iranians.
We in fact have the latter in our newspapers daily.
