I hate giving oxygen to guys like him, but as he's Down Under I thought I should include it for the record.
While on the subject of Jews who bash Israel, Aussie columnist Andrew Bolt has turned his attention to Antony Loewenstein (hat tip: reader Rita)
He comes across as a bitter and twisted hack, I pity anyone who even takes him seriously.
ReplyDeleteA History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappé
Reviewed by Efraim Karsh
http://www.meforum.org/897/a-history-of-modern-palestine-one-land-two-peoples
And another example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Tantura#Massacre_allegations
2 articles on Pappe
DeleteA dreamer of nightmares: Ilan Pappe’s foolish plan to dismantle Israel
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=14139&page=0
Q & A’s studied insult of the Australian Jewish community
http://www.danbymp.com/recent/1806-q-a-as-studied-insult-of-the-australian-jewish-community.html
Pappe is a fraud.
ReplyDeleteIn an interview with Baudouin Loos, he said this:
Who knows what facts are? We try to convince as many people as we can that our interpretation of the facts is the correct one, and we do it because of ideological reasons, not because we are truthseekers.
http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~censor/katz-directory/$99-11-29loos-pappe-interview.htm
The post-structuralist trend opened the floodgates for nonsense.
Oh, and btw, no, Daphne, I am not nearly so masochistic as to listen to this man yammer his hatred toward the Jewish state of Israel.
ReplyDeleteI don't blame you, Mike!
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