[Buddha-l] Zionism and Marxism?

[jkirk]

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From: "Eric Nelson" <esnels at gmail.com>


> Since off-topic discussions continue, I will add a few things:

> ..........One should also distinguish those who criticize Israel for particular
> practices, such as land expansion and removing people from their
> homes, from calling for the destruction of the state and its people.
> Otherwise, a number of Israelis are antisemitic and it seems everyone
> except neoconservatives would be "anti-semitic." This attitude of
> turning everyone other into the enemy creates cohesion, as the fascist
> political thinker Carl Schmidt argued, but I would disagree since it
> ideologically strengthens the fanatics and real anti-semitism that
> dominates the thinking of the likes of the president of Iran and that
> is dangerously resurging throughout the world today...............
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It's worth reading a thoughtful but extensive commentary on this issue by the well-known writer Judith Butler, herself a Jew, as publshed in the _London Review of Books_, vol. 25:16,  21 August 2003, titled 
"No, it's not anti-semitic".  http://tinyurl.com/nbt8g 

Joanna



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