Well that’s a relief:
But do the media’s attempts to link Halimi’s victimization to terrorism and anti-Semitism ring true? Are The Barbarians an anti-Semitic, terrorist group? No, they aren’t. They’re criminals who belong in prison for their actual crimes, rather than the snippets of idiocy that come out of their mouths. Equating them with terrorists simply blurs a line already cutting deeply through the world’s genuine democracies.
Past Allison Kaplan Sommer mockery of this “sure, they singled out a Jew… but would you really want to call an indirect motive like that anti-Semitism” position here. But who are you going to believe – the Arab News, or your own lying eyes?
