Saturday, July 23, 2005
The odious "except Israel" (really, "except the Jews") clause in the Draft of the Iraqi Constitution is still there, except in a more stealthy mode. Iraqis who lost their citizenship after early 1968 may reclaim it -- thing is, that excludes about 150,000 who were stripped of citizenship in the early '50's. I'm not sure of any other reason for the clause.
I thought of that when reading it initially, but in my desire to see something positive here, I brushed it off. Wishful thinking -- something I try to avoid. After reading Meryl's post, though, I realize I should have known better. She's right.
You know, a lot of people say that I am overly sensitive to incidents of anti-Semitism.
And yet, things like the Iraqi constitution's Exception Clause prove that I am not.
Meryl - You are not being overly sensitive. Anti Semitism is on the rise in Europe as well as in America. Often disguised as Anti Zionism, or postioned as 'Palestinian Rights', rallies by certain university student organizations at colleges often degenerate into cries of Death to Israel. Even the media is slanted in a similar manner, with editorials often castigating Israel for targeting terrorist leaders, while the same media minimizes cases of attacks by terrorists against Jewish citizens.