Oh, so now your position is that any criticism of Sharon puts the criticizer in the anti-semitic camp, right along side those sign carriers.
No, John. My position is that "those sign carriers" have been showing up on campus as a regular feature in any anti-Israeli or pro-Palestinian demonstration, leaving those who do wish just to criticize Sharon in an uncomfortable position. If they want to criticize Israel, they find themselves walking behind "Zionism=Nazism" signs, just as I saw in Boston, at the pro-Palestinian march which attended the Israel independence day rally last June. The real anti-semites have been feeling freer and freer to express their feelings, in word and deed (as we saw two weeks ago at Concordia University in Montreal).
That's not only conflation, a relatively unserious intellectual sin. It's also morally objectionable.
Personally, I find it morally objectionable to turn a blind eye to resurgence of real, unabashed anti-Semitism, by which I do NOT mean, criticism of Israel's policies. |
