Anti-Semitism Codified By Elites; Merged with 'Double Standards'.

[The ClayTaurus]

Shut up, Church Lady.

Tsk Tsk, Jesus is watching!

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Tsk Tsk, Jesus is watching!

Well, iiiiiisn't that speeeeecial.

 

[Annie]

Yep, it's not just whackos that think Israel is behind the ills of the world. (I wonder, does that mean the New World Order is brainwashing others into blaming the Jews?)Links at site:



http://www.reason.com/cy/cy060606.shtml

Divestment? Are You Kidding?
Israel the unfair target of selective outrage
Cathy Young


In the 1980s, there was a concerted movement to make South Africa a pariah state because of its policy of racial apartheid. Today, a similar effort is directed at the state of Israel. A week ago, the anti-Israel campaign achieved two significant victories. Britain's National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education, one of the country's two leading educators' associations, voted for a boycott of Israeli academics and colleges unless they take a stand against Israel's "apartheid policy." On the same day, the Ontario division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the largest labor union in Canada, voted for a boycott of Israel because of its treatment of Palestinians.

The British Foreign Office condemned the teachers' boycott as "counterproductive and retrograde." The reaction from Israel was even stronger. The chairman of the Knesset Committee for Science and Technology, Zevulun Orlev, asked the British parliament to "decry the anti-Semitic and racist decision."

Anti-Semitic or not, the movement to boycott Israel is hypocritical, sanctimonious, and quite simply wrong. It is a shocking example of selective outrage. Yes, Israeli policies are a legitimate target for criticism, and even most of Israel's supporters will admit there has been ill-treatment of Palestinians. Yet no one is demanding a boycott of Russian academics over Russia's occupation of Chechnya, and the accompanying atrocities (which dwarf Israel's human rights abuses in the occupied territories). No one wants to boycott China because of the occupation of Tibet, the persecution of religious minorities, and other abuses by the Chinese regime. No one wants to boycott Saudi Arabia because of its misogyny and religious intolerance.

Partly, this double standard is rooted in the familiar leftist mentality that strenuously condemns bad behavior by Western or pro-Western governments while turning a blind eye to the far worse misdeeds of communist and Third World regimes. But the movement to boycott Israel is especially repulsive for several reasons.

Apartheid-era South Africa, whose pariah status also reflected a double standard, was at least a truly repugnant regime intent on preserving white supremacy. Israel is a flawed democracy intent on preserving itself in the face of forces intent on its destruction.

What's more, the anti-Israel boycott combines this anti-Western, anti-democracy bias with an element of "picking on the little guy." The British professors and the Canadian public employees are not boycotting American institutions because of the occupation of Iraq. Obviously, such a boycott would cripple any institution's ability to function. But lashing out at Israel as a proxy for America is something that can be done with minimal inconvenience.

Nor should anti-Semitism be discounted. British scholar Mona Baker, a leading champion of the boycott, has written that while other countries are guilty of abuses, singling out Israel is appropriate because "Zionist influence [that is, Israeli influence] spreads far beyond its own immediate areas of dominion, and now widely influences many key domestic agendas in the West... This is particularly obvious in the case of the United States, where Zionist lobbies are extremely powerful with both Congress and the media." An international Jewish conspiracy: a sadly familiar tune.

Maybe American institutions should consider responding to such anti-Israel boycotts with their own boycotts. So far, the American Federation of Teachers has sent a letter to Britain's National Association of Teachers strongly condemning the move. The American Association of University Professors, which has generally taken a stand against academic boycotts, has remained quiet.

Jonathan Knight, who directs the American Association's program in academic freedom and tenure, told me that the issue is moot because the British group no longer exists as an independent body. On June 1, it merged with the British Association of University Teachers into a single group, the University and College Union, which is still deciding which policies of the two original organizations it will follow. The British Association of University Teachers previously approved a resolution to boycott Israel's academic institutions, but then rescinded it after an outcry.

Right now, while the decision is being pondered, would be a good time for the American Association to make a strong statement against this boycott. But this raises the issue of just how strongly the US group is committed to the anti-boycott cause. Its planned conference on academic boycotts came under fire for giving eight of the 22 speaking slots to strong supporters of the Israeli boycott -- and then collapsed after the revelation that the conference packet inadvertently included an anti-Semitic article from a Holocaust-denying magazine.

The American Association should now stand up and be counted. A boycott of Israel would be the shame of academe.

 

[jillian]

Israel always gets singled-out. Thing is, it's not that Israel never does anything wrong, it's the selective outrage that makes it appear anti-semitic, even if it's not anti-semitic in intent.

 

[Annie]

Israel always gets singled-out. Thing is, it's not that Israel never does anything wrong, it's the selective outrage that makes it appear anti-semitic, even if it's not anti-semitic in intent.

That was noted, that Israel has made mistakes.

 

[jillian]

That was noted, that Israel has made mistakes.

I know. Was agreeing with the points it raised and made an additional observation.

Was a good article.

 

[dilloduck]

So selectively boycotting South Africa was racist?

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Yep, it's not just whackos that think Israel is behind the ills of the world. (I wonder, does that mean the New World Order is brainwashing others into blaming the Jews?)Links at site:



http://www.reason.com/cy/cy060606.shtml

Maybe it's because setting up a new world order is their holy texts. Just a guess.

http://www.moshiach.com

 

[dilloduck]

Israel always gets singled-out. Thing is, it's not that Israel never does anything wrong, it's the selective outrage that makes it appear anti-semitic, even if it's not anti-semitic in intent.

Hold it RIGHT THERE !

Israel always gets singled ALONG WITH other countries, religions, governments, political parties, races, genders etc etc

Don't play the martyr card. People are tired of it !!

 

[jillian]

Hold it RIGHT THERE !

Israel always gets singled ALONG WITH other countries, religions, governments, political parties, races, genders etc etc

Don't play the martyr card. People are tired of it !!

Ever ask yourself why the vast majority of security counsel resolutions are against Israel if "other countries" do stuff, too?

If people are tired of the martyr card, they should stop holding jews to a standard far about that to which they hold others.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Ever ask yourself why the vast majority of security counsel resolutions are against Israel if "other countries" do stuff, too?

If people are tired of the martyr card, they should stop holding jews to a standard far about that to which they hold others.

poor poor jews.

 

[dilloduck]

Ever ask yourself why the vast majority of security counsel resolutions are against Israel if "other countries" do stuff, too?

If people are tired of the martyr card, they should stop holding jews to a standard far about that to which they hold others.

Fuck the UN--who pays any attention to them anyway. Don't try to deflect this issue. Israel if FAR from the only entity that gets singled out when the blame game gets played.

 

[Dr Grump]

Fuck the UN--who pays any attention to them anyway. Don't try to deflect this issue. Israel if FAR from the only entity that gets singled out when the blame game gets played.

America gets blamed a lot, too .Sometimes deservedly so, most times not...

 

[dilloduck]

America gets blamed a lot, too .Sometimes deservedly so, most times not...

No joke, Grump. and so do hundreds of other things. "Selective outrage" is bullshit.

 

[Annie]

right!

How brainwashed are whites that we accept affirmative action? Very.

Diversity is fine. Using discrimination to achieve it is not.

So, when did Jews qualify for affirmative action? I'm not saying that there weren't some Jews that would argue for affirmative action for minorities, which is a stance I do not agree with. However, the fact once again that the legal profession has a disproportionate number of Jews, in and of itself doesn't mean that Jews forced anything upon anyone. The numbers have, once again to be reflective of the emphasis on attaining higher education. There numbers are also higher than expected in medicine, teaching, accounting, etc.

A disproportionate number live in the Eastern part of the country, more highly educated, have a culture that recognizes the dangers of being a minority. Thus, like many focus groups with those features, they tend to be of a more liberal mindset. This is more indicative of the sociological features in the term, socio-economic group.

 

[Annie]

No joke, Grump. and so do hundreds of other things. "Selective outrage" is bullshit.

Check out the lead stories from any newspapers across the world, especially in Europe. One needn't be 'educated' or 'pro-Israel' to get it. :coffee3: Why do you think 'academic groups' in Europe are able to compare Israel to South Africa? Why can you? Simple, accepted anti-Semitism. It's not race.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

So, when did Jews qualify for affirmative action? I'm not saying that there weren't some Jews that would argue for affirmative action for minorities, which is a stance I do not agree with. However, the fact once again that the legal profession has a disproportionate number of Jews, in and of itself doesn't mean that Jews forced anything upon anyone. The numbers have, once again to be reflective of the emphasis on attaining higher education. There numbers are also higher than expected in medicine, teaching, accounting, etc.

A disproportionate number live in the Eastern part of the country, more highly educated, have a culture that recognizes the dangers of being a minority. Thus, like many focus groups with those features, they tend to be of a more liberal mindset. This is more indicative of the sociological features in the term, socio-economic group.

I never said they did qualify for affirmative action.

They continually deride any group which is proud of white christian identity. This is irrefutable.

 

[Annie]

I never said they did qualify for affirmative action.

They continually deride any group which is proud of white christian identity. This is irrefutable.

Cool, prove it.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Check out the lead stories from any newspapers across the world, especially in Europe. One needn't be 'educated' or 'pro-Israel' to get it. :coffee3: Why do you think 'academic groups' in Europe are able to compare Israel to South Africa? Why can you? Simple, accepted anti-Semitism. It's not race.

Because Kathianne, there are positions in the government which cannot be held by a non jew. And it is a race, through matrilineal descendancy. How do you explain how people with a jewish mom and no knowledge of judaism are considered full jews by the jewish establishment. Put up or shut up. Quit repeating your brainwash, you're embarrassing yourself.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Cool, prove it.

First of all, are you denying it? I'm not going to go on your little errands without clear opposition.