Antisemitismo (Continuación)

By Jamie Glassman (THE TIMES, 15/08/06):

THERE’S NOTHING I like more than a Jewish joke. It’s the anti-Jewish ones I’m not so keen on.

Wandering through the streets of Edinburgh during the world’s largest arts festival, you never know what sight or sound you will be bombarded with next. Half-naked men on 6ft stilts meander by, half-naked girls rush to sell you their show, troops of Japanese acrobats tumble past. But I wasn’t prepared for the verbal assault I got when I wandered into a comedy gig this week.

There have always been anti- Semitic jokes. But you know times are changing when you go along to a stand-up show at the Pleasance Courtyard at the Edinburgh Fringe and you hear audience members shouting “Throw them in the oven” when the comic suggests kids should stop playing Cowboys and Indians and replace it with Nazis and Jews.…  Seguir leyendo »

By Charles Krauthammer (THE WASHINGTON POST, 05/05/06):

When something happens for the first time in 1,871 years, it is worth noting. In A.D. 70, and again in 135, the Roman Empire brutally put down Jewish revolts in Judea, destroying Jerusalem, killing hundreds of thousands of Jews and sending hundreds of thousands more into slavery and exile. For nearly two millennia, the Jews wandered the world. And now, in 2006, for the first time since then, there are once again more Jews living in Israel -- the successor state to Judea -- than in any other place on Earth.

Israel's Jewish population has just passed 5.6 million.…  Seguir leyendo »

By Richard Cohen (THE WASHINGTON POST, 25/04/06):

During the Jim Crow era, many American communists fiercely fought racism. This is a fact. It is also a fact that segregationists and others often smeared civil rights activists by calling them communists. This technique is sometimes called guilt by association and sometimes "McCarthyism." If you think it's dead, you have not been following the controversy over a long essay about the so-called "Israel Lobby."

On April 5, for instance, The Post ran an op-ed, "Yes, It's Anti-Semitic," by Eliot A. Cohen, a professor at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a respected defense intellectual.…  Seguir leyendo »

By Tony Judt, the director of the Remarque Institute at New York University and the author of "Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945." (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19/04/06):

IN its March 23rd issue the London Review of Books, a respected British journal, published an essay titled "The Israel Lobby." The authors are two distinguished American academics (Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago) who posted a longer (83-page) version of their text on the Web site of Harvard's Kennedy School.

As they must have anticipated, the essay has run into a firestorm of vituperation and refutation.…  Seguir leyendo »

By Eliot A. Cohen, a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (THE WASHINGTON POST, 05/04/06):

Academic papers posted on a Harvard Web site don't normally attract enthusiastic praise from prominent white supremacists. But John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" has won David Duke's endorsement as "a modern Declaration of American Independence" and a vindication of the ex-Klansman's earlier work, presumably including his pathbreaking book, "Jewish Supremacism."

Walt and Mearsheimer contend that American national security dictates distancing ourselves from the state of Israel; that U.S. support for Israel has led to such disasters as America's status as the No.…  Seguir leyendo »

By Mark Lawson (THE GUARDIAN, 24/03/06):

The aim of religion is revelation, and this week I have had two God-related shocks. On Sunday a list of Britain's most influential Roman Catholics included me at 65. This was something of a surprise to me - as for 20 years or so my relationship with the faith has been of a bleak and quarrelsome Graham Greene kind - but not as shocking as it was to the person who emailed to ask how, as a well-known Jew, I could chart in the Vatican hit list at all.

This confusion proved to have resulted from the fact that, almost at the same moment the Tablet was blessing my left foot, an anonymous contributor had amended my entry in Wikipedia, the communal online reference source, to advise (or, more sinisterly, warn?)…  Seguir leyendo »

By John Mann, a Labour MP for Bassetlaw (THE GUARDIAN, 17/03/06):

As chair of the all party parliamentary group against anti-semitism, I am delighted to see a group of cross-party MPs taking the time to examine anti-semitism in Britain.

Having attended only one of the sessions of this inquiry, David Clark rushed into print to judge an inquiry which is still proceeding and whose evidence he has not read (Accusations of anti-semitic chic are poisonous intellectual thuggery, March 6).

It is clear from evidence presented to the inquiry that anti-semitism has not gone away and that its nature is now more varied.…  Seguir leyendo »

By Jeffrey Goldberg, a staff writer for The New Yorker, is the author of the forthcoming "Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide." (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14/03/06):

Three years ago, while visiting Tehran, I was introduced to a charmless man named Muhammad Ali Samadi, who, I was told, would parse for me the Iranian theocracy's peculiar understanding of Judaism and Zionism. Mr. Samadi said that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, held no brief for anti-Semitism. Then, a moment later, he deployed an epidemiological metaphor to explain the role of Jews in history. "There are always infections and diseases in man," he said.…  Seguir leyendo »