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Rosenfeld responds

Alvin Rosenfeld wrote an article a few weeks ago criticizing leftist antisemitism. He got criticism from a number of precincts (and was mischaracterized.) KesherTalk has his response taken from the New Republic.

He gives a 3 step process to describe how Israel's critics work:

(1) Spot an Israeli action that can serve as the ground of "criticism of Israel" (e.g., Israel's military incursion into the area near Jenin in April 2002 in response to Palestinian terrorist massacres);
(2) Then "dissent" in the strongest possible terms, for instance by likening the "razing of Jenin" to the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, while anticipating that "powerful" and "repressive" Jewish institutions will try to "silence" the critics by calling them anti-Semites;
(3) When taken to task by more sober-minded critics who find that, contrary to your charge, there was no such thing as "the razing of Jenin" and that the IDF has nothing in common with the SS, cry "foul" and claim their censure perfectly illustrates the point that there really is a Jewish organizational conspiracy to silence "criticism of Israel" by branding the authors of such criticism "anti-Semites."

KesherTalk also brings down a number of responses to other critics of Rosenfeld including (generously) one of mine. It is well worth reading.

Blogdigger tags: Antisemitism, Alvin Rosenfeld,

Posted by SoccerDad at March 1, 2007 4:41 AM