tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post2120063113897687333..comments2023-11-05T22:12:50.570+11:00Comments on Daphne Anson: Useful To The Enemy: Ben Cohen On Anti-Zionist Jewish "Dissidents"Daphne Ansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297188759548931101noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-76034330786600866042012-07-03T23:28:59.161+10:002012-07-03T23:28:59.161+10:00There have always been psychopaths who'd rathe...There have always been psychopaths who'd rather be hated than ignored. Today many of them write for Huffington Post, the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC and Salon. Because it's become an incestuous little love pile freak show, they all talk to and quote another congratulating one another on agreeing with one another about how brilliant they all are. As if anyone need wonder how, in the 1930's the most educated, advanced, philosophical, technologically innovative country in the world managed not only to create the Third Reich, but that so many people who would ultimately be incinerated by it found a way to happily support it or arrogantly laugh at it. I suppose even white upper middle class degree holding liberals want to be part of an angry mob. It doesn't much matter what the mob is saying or wants as long as they can be part of it. And if others in the mob look to them for guidance, all's the better.Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-24060657087213530932012-07-03T15:03:00.922+10:002012-07-03T15:03:00.922+10:00Thanks, Joe.
I've noticed that included in the...Thanks, Joe.<br />I've noticed that included in the ranks of Israel-demonising Jewish organisations are people with the most tenuous of links to Judaism - and whose only identification, to all intents and purposes, as "Jews" is for the purpose of slamming Israel. There are several public figures of this kind in the UK.Daphne Ansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12297188759548931101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-10317318289730730792012-07-03T08:11:41.242+10:002012-07-03T08:11:41.242+10:00There's a weird dynamic where people aspire to...There's a weird dynamic where people aspire to be a Jewish anti-Zionist - even people who are not actually Jewish. See <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=275840" rel="nofollow">this</a> recent story in the Jerusalem Post about an anti-Israel advocate who had a whole backstory about serving in the IDF and being descended from Holocaust survivors. She didn't actually want to be Jewish per se; she wanted to be a counter-current martyr to virtue, a performance in which she would not only be anti-Israel but the most perfectly penitent anti-Zionist: a former soldier, the child of Holocaust victims, a sort of Hollywood stereotype of the sort of person whose world would change dramatically when she renounced her support for Israel. But it was all a lie; even if her political position wasn't adopted as part of her persona she was merely another European hater of the Jewish state.Joe in Australianoreply@blogger.com