Tuesday, May 4, 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.
Alan Dershowitz: Tikkun Magazine Is Trying To Silence Me - 'Tikkun Magazine, which I have long criticized for spewing hatred against Israel, is now trying to silence me by employing old fashioned McCarthyism tactics. They are blaming me for inciting a group of protestors who apparently glued some political signs to t he house of Michael Lerner's, who runs Tikkun. Of course I don't know any of these protestors, nor was I aware of their actions until I read about them in the newspapers, as a result of Tikkun's publicizing the incident. I do not approve of people pasting posters on someone else's property. Although Lerner regards this as a hate crime, the local authorities have apparently explained to him that he cannot achieve the martyrdom status of the victim of a hate crime because his Jewish attackers were not attacking him for his religion, but rather for his politics...'
