Mark Steyn recently accused the Jewish establishment in Canada of the same thing namely that it continues to view skinheads rather than “rag heads” as the greatest threat. Ted Belman Dr. Charles Jacobs is a longtime anti-slavery and pro-Israel activist, one of the founders of CAMERA and the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG). He has also been a persistent critic of the ADL, arguing that it concentrates way too much on ‘old-fashioned’ neo-Nazi antisemitism and not enough on threats from Islamists and the extreme Left. What I found interesting in a recent exchange was this: h/t to Yamit for bring this letter to my attention. It has long been the contention legal analysts that Res 181 does not prevent Israel from claiming Judea and Samaria because the Arabs rejected it. Dore Gold goes even farther on behalf of Israel, in claiming that the whole resolution is now null and void. Thus, no internationalization of Jerusalem and no corridor between Gaza and Judea and Samaria and no to anything else in that resolution, which, in any event, was a recommendation. Ted Belman Also in Myths and Facts, “Professor Stone wrote about this ‘novelty of resurrection’ in 1981 when he analyzed a similar attempt by pro-Palestinian ‘experts’ at the UN to rewrite the history of the conflict (their writings were termed “Studies”). Stone called it “revival of the dead”Political correctness, Jew-hatred and Islam
“Res 181 is null and void” Israel
“To attempt to show … that Resolution 181(II) ‘remains’ in force in 1981 is thus an undertaking even more miraculous than would be the revival of the dead. It is an attempt to...
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Tuesday 3 January 2012
Shifting the focus away from skinheads, neo-Nazis, and Christian bigots and onto radical leftists and Muslim Jew-hatred would be extraordinarily difficult. It would require a massive and unpopular effort: leading the Jews to think difficult thoughts about their new situation, thoughts that put them at odds with their comforting universalist theology of Political Correctness.
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Ted Belman
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