People are demonized as Nazis, and subsequently Nazi methods are used to eliminate them. The authorities, meanwhile, do not come to the aid of the victims since the latter are ‘Nazis.’ On the contrary, sometimes the authorities even praise the aggressors for their vigilance and their ‘intolerance’ in the fight against ‘Nazism.’ Nazis have become 'victims' and their victims become 'Nazis' -- and... In a recent editorial, the New York weekly newspaper The Jewish Week applauded the Obama administration for doing "the right thing" by disengaging from the Durban II process in a way that could give our country "new clout in the
Wednesday, 18th March 2009
Demonising the victim
12:30am
At Hudson New York, Thomas Landen makes a striking point about the way in which the prevailing totalitarian liberal consensus in the west is demonising Jews or anti-Islamofascists as ‘Nazis,’ ‘racists’ or ‘far-right extremists’ who are ‘beyond the pale.’ Pondering examples as various as the demonisation of the murdered Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, German activists opposing the construction of a giant mosque in Cologne and the British Anglican Islam expert Patrick Sookhdeo, Landen observes:Tuesday, 17th March 2009
The AJC Durban II controversy
9:03am
In an earlier blog entry and a piece for National Review Online, I strongly criticised the American Jewish Committee for taking part in the short-lived US delegation to the preparatory meeting for the ‘Durban II’ anti-Israel hate-fest scheduled to take place in Geneva next month. The head of the AJC, David Harris, was stung into launching an attack in The Jewish Week and theJerusalem Post on myself and two other prominent critics, the formidable UN-watcher Anne Bayefsky and the Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick. This is what Harris wrote a few days ago in the Jerusalem Post:
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