I agree with Nicole's analysis. Seemingly, one can ask what responsibilities
have Black played in slavery without being racist but unless you are Jew
yourself, placing any responsibilitie on Jews for the Holocaust would be
seen as pure antisemitism.
While Israel is playing the racial card to shut people up and make the
maximum profit of the current world geopolitics highly in its advantage, I
believe its citizen should stand up against injustice and violations of
human rights and international treaties. We all see terrorist attacks on tv,
but journalists have been prevented from covering Israel's incursions and
Israel has rejected the U.N fact finding mission...
When the wheel of history is in your advantage, you should use it wisely
because what goes around comes around.
Moumine
>From: "Amadou O. Wane" <wane@strategisconsulting.com>
>To: <malilink@mali.net>
>Subject: [malilink] CRITICAL BUT NOT RACIST
>Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:41:44 -0400
>
>CRITICAL BUT NOT RACIST
>Washington Post, 7/6/02
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30749-2002Jul5.html
>
>As an American Jew, I am outraged by Abraham Foxman's irrational
>conclusions from the Anti-Defamation League's poll on anti-Semitism in
>Europe [op-ed, June 27]. Although attacks on synagogues are undoubtedly
>troubling and cause for concern, Foxman's assessments of the trends
>associated with these attacks are so contrived as to be utterly puzzling.
>
>If 45 percent of those Europeans polled think that most Jews have a strong
>loyalty to Israel, they are right -- from an early age, we are taught that
>Israel is a homeland to Jews, and thus most Jews develop a strong
>connection to it. This perception being accurate, how is it that those who
>have noticed can be categorized as anti-Semitic?
>
>By the same token, Foxman reports that 62 percent of those polled see the
>outbreak of violence against Jews as a result of anti-Israel sentiment, not
>anti-Jewish feelings. Yes, criticism of Israeli policies is on the rise.
>But how is this tantamount to anti-Semitism? If I criticize the government
>of Zimbabwe, am I somehow a racist?
>
>Many Jews, myself included, are highly critical of Prime Minister Ariel
>Sharon's policies, as they feed into an endless cycle of violence that
>threatens Jewish and Arab lives. We are long overdue for a serious
>intellectual inquiry as to how the president of a leading American Jewish
>organization can falsely equate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, or,
>as I prefer to more accurately call the phenomenon, anti-Jewish sentiments.
>Our cousins the Arabs are Semitic too.
>
>-- Nicole Dannenberg Sorger
>
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