He has a good column provocatively titled What Often Happens to Israel's Critics I, picking up a Johann Hari piece on his own smearing for daring to criticize Israel. Hari:
Any attempt to describe accurately the situation for Palestinians is met like this. If you recount the pumping of sewage onto Palestinian land, "Honest Reporting" claims you are reviving the anti-Semitic myth of Jews "poisoning the wells." If you interview a woman whose baby died in 2002 because she was detained – in labour – by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint within the West Bank, "Honest Reporting" will say you didn't explain "the real cause": the election of Hamas in, um, 2006. And on, and on.
...[Alan] Dershowitz is a lawyer, Harvard professor and author of The Case For Israel. He sees ethnic cleansing as a trifling matter, writing: "Political solutions often require the movement of people, and such movement is not always voluntary ... It is a fifth-rate issue analogous in many respects to some massive urban renewal." If a prominent American figure takes a position on Israel to the left of this, Dershowitz often takes to the airwaves to call them anti-Semites and bigots.
Andrew is bigger than TNR or the Atlantic, and that’s the truth of it.
Given his weather-vaning in the past I wonder if Sullivan will stick to this course, of if he will find the zio-heat too hot and “moderate” his views in future … to zio-fascists will always take you back – if you’ll tow the line
However you look at this, it takes guts to do what Sullivan is doing – no matter how long it lasts. I remember Mr Sullivan specifically from his stance on torture, when everyone was lapdogging with the “ticking time bomb nonsense,” he would have none of it. He never changed at that time, lets hope he does not on this issue.
So he would have no problem with Israeli settlers in the occupied territories being evicted? Yeah, zebras might fly!
Sullivan and all of us critical of Israel’s policies may soon have to start watching our back. Scary times!
These same cronies have been assaulting the University of California Irvine for years, first with the old antisemitism charge, until the very students they (ZOA) thought they were protecting told them to quit. Then it was attacking some of the faculty, and now it is persecuting the students. It is time that they learn that enough is enough, and they are not going to force murderous colonial occupiers that have been repeated censured by the UN down anyone’s throat.
RE: “What Often Happens to Israel’s Critics” – Sullivan
SEE: The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics. by David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi, Tikkun Magazine, September/October 2009
(EXCERPT) …We have become increasingly concerned at the ways in which scholarly critics of Israeli policy have been cavalierly and maliciously misrepresented, mostly through ad hominem attacks on their characters, reputations, and careers. We are troubled also by the ways in which academic programs-most notably Middle East Studies programs at major universities-are being attacked as bastions of irresponsible radicalism and anti-American activity. Our concern has been heightened especially in view of the outside pressure being brought to bear on university administrations, some of which seem to have yielded to coercion, even while trying to “balance” calls for responsibility with commitments to academic freedom. Some senior university administrators seem willing to take for granted the misrepresentations and fabrications by boisterous supporters of Israel, and have done so merely on the strident assertion of those making these claims. This is a curious position to take in the name of “balance,” a notion about which we will have more to say in a moment.
These are not altogether new developments, of course, as the dire threat to a number of academic careers and institutional programs in recent years, particularly in Middle East studies, will attest. Scholars whose work is critical of Israeli policies have been denied jobs, denied tenure (or faced a threat to their prospects for tenure), and in general have had their lives made difficult-not because of academic criteria, but because of political interference from extra-academic forces…
ENTIRETY – link to tikkun.org
“Political solutions often require the movement of people, and such movement is not always voluntary … It is a fifth-rate issue analogous in many respects to some massive urban renewal.”
So Dersh is essentially a conspirator, a murderer and an enabler of murder, genocide and mass slaughter.
Do you think someone, some lawyer or judge around the US will hoist him on a hook in a show trial for advocating the “genocide of Jew….” errr….”Palestinians”?
Will Wolf Dybbuk Blitzer put that statement up on his big screen every 15 minutes telling viewers what a terrorist Dershowitz is?
It is good that someone finally saw this and said something, but Dipshit Dersh has been saying this for years, according to my studies. However, good that someone finally saw it and noted it, perhaps it will gain headway now that more are aware of the atrocities committed deeply and daily.