In the US and Britain, there is a campaign to smear anybody who tries to describe the plight of the Palestinian people. It is an attempt to intimidate and silence – and to a large degree, it works. There is nobody these self-appointed spokesmen for Israel will not attack as anti-Jewish: liberal Jews, rabbis, even Holocaust survivors.
The independent
(thanks vza)
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This smearing business has been going on a massive scale for 60 years if not more. As one example to cite, see how someone like BHL talks about Jimmy Carter and Walt & Mearsheimer..Loathsome indeed..
Monday, February 15, 2010
Johann Hari: The loathsome smearing of Israel's critics
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Anti-Semitism smear,
Israel critics,
Palestine
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Last week, I wrote an article that described how untreated sewage was being pumped from illegal Israeli settlements on to Palestinian land, contaminating their reservoirs. This isn't controversial. It has been documented by Friends of the Earth, and I have seen it with my own eyes.
ReplyDeleteLast week, I wrote an article that described how untreated sewage was being pumped from illegal Israeli settlements on to Palestinian land, contaminating their reservoirs. This isn't controversial. It has been documented by Friends of the Earth, and I have seen it with my own eyes.
ReplyDeleteThe response? There was little attempt to dispute the facts I offered. Instead, some of the most high profile "pro-Israel" writers and media monitoring groups – including Honest Reporting and Camera – said I an anti-Jewish bigot akin to Joseph Goebbels and Mahmoud Ahmadinejadh, while Melanie Phillips even linked the stabbing of two Jewish people in North London to articles like mine. Vast numbers of e-mails came flooding in calling for me to be sacked.
Apparently they think discarge of raw sewage on Palestinians land and water ways can be done away with by verbal raw sewage.
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