posts I won’t be reading, dept.

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1. Queue says:

   July 29, 2009 at 12:08 am

   ‘Kristallnacht as the Grocery Aisle’ sounds more like a title from someone mocking Zionist paranoia – kind of like titling a film “Auschwitz Ovens in Your Local Pizzeria”. It’s waaay over the top.

   And why are they so terrified by the slogan “Israelis and Palestinians: Two People; One Future”? That seems appropriate for the multicultural zeitgeist, no? Weird.

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2. Citizen says:

   July 29, 2009 at 8:32 am

   So, placing a sticker on a product with a political statement is the same as smashing in jew-owned shop windows? Or is it more akin to “World Jewry” boycotting Hitler’s Germany, banner headlined in prominent world newspapers back in the days before Kristallnacht?

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3. Donald says:

   July 29, 2009 at 10:01 am

   “The United States is built on top of land seized from Native Americans. ”

   I’m glad to see the so-called Israel defenders commonly making this analogy, because the Israel critics got there first a long time ago. Norman Finkelstein, for instance, compared the white settlers of America to the Zionists in some of his books. I think Chomsky has done the same. It’s a commonly used analogy because it is accurate. Glad we all agree.

   There are differences, of course–for one thing, Native Americans, as badly treated as they are, have the “right of return”. They aren’t confined to reservations. And white people in the 21st Century can’t take land within the reservations and settle there against the will of the Indians, and can’t build roads that connect these settlements which are for whites only. One could easily imagine something like that in the 19th Century, when colonialism was a generally accepted practice.

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