Political Debate & Religious Criticism DO NOT EQUAL Racism
Friday, June 25, 2010 15:43According to Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress, in a National Post article “Pride reverses ban on phrase ‘Israeli apartheid’”
When you have the vast majority of Jews in Toronto who are in support of the Jewish state, then you are de facto targeting Jews
when you talk of “Israeli apartheid”. While Islamist-sympathizers criticism of Isreal are shockingly hypocritical, Israel being really the only state remotely close to a democracy in the Middle East, yet I’m tired of hearing that any criticism of Isreal is tantamount to anti-semitism. Political debate, religious critism, and racism are three distinct concepts.
I think it’s absolutely astounding that bullying and intimidation seems to be a message that works. In other words, if you want to get something, just bully and intimidate and you’ll get your way,” said Farber.
And he would know! Farber is better than anyone at using intimidation to get his way and halt critism or debate.
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Gary says:
July 4th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Neither to take away from your premise that criticism of Israel is not equivalent to anti-semitism with which I agree in the general sense, nor to be misunderstood as suppporting Bernie Farber in any way, but I often have noted that those who would offer proposals to settle the Israeli-Arab dispute over Palestine take the Arab line of the complete right of return as being sine qua non to the solution. This would be tantamount to the destruction of a state that was intended to be a homeland for Jews and would likely amount to genocide or the ethnic cleansing of Jews that live there. Either these people are completely stupid or they simply don’t care about the fate of the Jews who live in Israel. Sadly, I have concluded that such proposals, made by otherwise intelligent people, have to be characterized as anti-semitic. Couple that with the complete absence of any recognition by these people of the expulsion, destruction of the civil rights and property confiscations of Jews who lived in Arab lands in 1948 and any requirement on the part of the Arab world to make restitution, you then complete the puzzle with the last piece pointing to anti-semitism.