One of the most annoying things in contemporary politics is the ease with which criticism of Israeli policies can be confounded with antisemitism. If you are a reasonable person who doesn't buy into any of the global jewish conspiracy crap, but vocally disagree with actions taken by the Israeli government, some asshole like
Alan Dershowitz can wave a magic wand and you are now a hater of Jews. Boy, that's the way to foster debate... Well, in a follow up to my last post, here is
another case that appears to smack of this shit. It looks to me like Mr. Finkelstein (yes, now even Jews who criticize Israel are called antisemitic) was canned for his political beliefs...
Well, here it is, my chance to be labeled something I'm not. I think Isreal does plenty of fucked up shit (most of which is done with the help of the good ol' US of A), and no one in the US is safe from censure if they openly question it. Most of all, professors, who are our paid thinkers, cannot safely consider both sides of any debate about Isreal without fear of losing their jobs. What a free country we live in...
Sad thing is, I used to admire Dershowitz. I used to enjoy him coming on political shows and slicing and dicing up dipshits like Ann Coulter (who I saw refer to Alexander Hamilton as a President during one of their exchanges...
she's a man baby). I even enjoyed another
asshole,
Ron Silver, playing Dershowitz in a great movie called
Reversal of Fortune. Now, though, he only sees things the way the backwards-thinking
AIPAC sees them... no debate allowed....
