martha rosler on Wed, 1 May 2002 05:43:02 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Palestine and Le Pen |
John Horvath wrote: >Naomi Klein's article to the Globe and Mail is a perfect example of a >distraction to drown out legitimate criticism of Israel by fanning the >flames of anti-Semitism. After all, the shoah must go on. Her assertion >that "the only people Mr. Le Pen's supporters seem to dislike more than >Jews are Arabs" is quite incorrect. Len Pen's fascism is more against >Arabs than Jews; more precisely, the NF in France is against North >Africans. John Horvath's haste to vilify Naomi Klein and her article leads to a number of non sequiturs. So, what is wrong with the previous sentence? I dunno. Seems to me she is saying the fascists hate arabs more than jews, mr horvath says the same thing. Did i miss something? Horvath: >It's a common mistake to assume that fascists are against first and >foremost Jews and then everyone else (actually, why do Jews hold the >monopoly over the word "Semite" when Palestinians are also considered >Semitic?). was mussolini, the original fascist, assumed to be first and foremost against jews? is the common usage of anti-Semite another jewish plot? Horvath: Nationalists are against "the foreigner" foremost represented >by the minorities they feel most threatened by. In France, they are not >too happy with Jews, that's for sure; but what they are more afraid of is >who they see on the streets and can quickly identify. Moreover, with the >number of North Africans and refugees from "the east" on the increase, >it's this wave of immigration which is seen as the biggest threat to >French nationalists. AND? Horvath: >Aside from all this, you may have noticed that stories of rising >anti-Semitism almost always coincides with criticism of Israel. Hence, >this time the French elections provided the perfect setting, as if it was >manna sent from heaven. Subsequently, the likes of Klein end up twisting >events out of context in order to serve their ignominious purpose. So--how is this any different from any other antijewish ranting? there are jewish religious and cultural sites in Western Europe and beyond being attacked; I suppose the jews are behind that welcome distraction as well? or should people pretend it isn't so? Klein's article is entitled "Sharon's best weapon" and begins: > Anti-semitism sustains Israel's brutal leader - the fight against it must > be reclaimed. > She continues: > Something new happened in Washington DC last weekend. A > demonstration against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund was > joined by an anti-war march, as well as a demonstration against the Israeli > occupation of Palestinian territory. In the end, all the marches merged into > what organisers described as the largest Palestinian solidarity >demonstration > in US history (75,000 people by police estimates). <snip> > As a critic both of the Israeli occupation and of corporate-dictated > globalisation, it seems to me that the,convergence that took place in > Washington last weekend was long overdue. I think the writer of the post needs to look to his own attitudes about jews; it would be a good start to differentiate them from israelis. One may be a subset of the other but they are not coterminous. sincerely, martha rosler new york city _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold