Sure, it takes a certain level of anti-Semitic tinged myopia to publish a newspaper article calling for the destruction of the Jewish State…
A Dublin cultural and lifestyle magazine has received over 2,000 letters attacking it for publishing an anti-Israel article by former Irish parliamentarian Justin Keating. The torrent of correspondence began pouring into The Dubliner after Keating’s column, which argues that Israel has no right to exist, was criticized by the media watchdog Web site HonestReporting.com, which compared the piece to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s recent call to “wipe Israel from the face of the map.” Mr Keating’s article claims that the Jews did not originally come from the land of Israel, but only “occupied some land 2,000 years ago for a historically brief period.”
… but it takes real class (or a tenured line at an American university) to respond by going on the offensive and accusing your critics of trying to silence dissent:
In an editorial slated to appear in the next issue of The Dubliner, White describes his anger at receiving what he calls “abusive and vulgar e-mails” accusing the magazine of anti-Semitism. “I was shocked at the ferocity of what was clearly an attempt to silence dissent,” it says.
As anti-Semitism grows frighteningly routine across the globe, people still argue that calling for the eradication of five million Jews is ‘legitimate criticism of Israel’ and has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. One wonders if even they believe themselves any more.
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