tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818080618483244432.post6922895533132598670..comments2023-08-17T08:23:48.687-04:00Comments on Old World New Ideas: Richard Silverstein and James von Brunn share at least one beliefMichael W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00510512694213419859noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818080618483244432.post-58757766854985945902009-06-29T13:57:19.593-04:002009-06-29T13:57:19.593-04:00Jes, excellent, essential point.
Michael, when it...Jes, excellent, essential point.<br /><br />Michael, when it comes to Israel and Jews, the Guardian has no journalistic standards. It's worth being clear about the fact, too, that it was Silverstein, not Foxman, who actually used the shooting and a man's death for the purpose of scoring a political point.A. Jay Adlerhttp://sadredearth.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818080618483244432.post-12874188518490110672009-06-18T08:57:59.458-04:002009-06-18T08:57:59.458-04:00From Richard Silverstein's piece in the Guardi...From Richard Silverstein's piece in the Guardian:<br /><br /><em>Instead of describing this incident as the lone act of a desperate, mentally unstable creature who sought, like the Slim Pickens character at the end of Dr Strangelove, to go out in a blaze of racist glory – they will seek to parlay this incident into a much wider antisemitic conspiracy.</em><br /><br />Unfortunately, for anyone who actually saw the Stanley Kubrick film and remembers it, the Slim Pickens figure was anything but a lone, disturbed creature. He was created by Terry Southern intentionally as the product of mass, anti-Communist and anti-Soviet hysteria. That's why it's so dangerous when the lines become unclear between legitimate and <em>balanced</em> criticism of Israel and overt anti-Semitism.JEShttp://www.hasbara-handbook.orgnoreply@blogger.com