Friday, February 12, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Anthony Julius: England's not so pleasant aspect - Antisemitism, that paltry and vicious hatred, has much in it of English origin - '...Longstanding antisemites now embrace "anti-Zionism" as a cover for their Jew-hatred. This is because, in relation to Israel, the antisemite finds a protected voice. The desire to destroy Jews is reconfigured as the desire to destroy or dismantle the Jewish state. The new anti-Zionism has become a cause for some English academics and political activists; it is commonly found in the universities and in student and university teacher associations. Anti-Zionism has renewed antisemitism, and given it a future. These, then, are England’s gifts to Jew-hatred...'
