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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (31396)	2/25/2004 3:27:45 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793715

You might want to follow the link back to Bjorn Staerk's blog I think you posted something of his before, at least someone did. It's always pleasing to me to find people who are thoughtful and analytic about things like this. <<What does that tell us? I'm not sure. It does not tell us that anyone who criticizes Israel is an anti-semite. It does, I think, tell us that many claims about Israel originated in and are related to old anti-semitic myths. >> What he doesn't say and what I think is key is flip side. It seems to me that, although lots of things could be connected to anti-semitism and thus come from anti-semitism, the more useful way of judging bias is always whether or not there's a plausible alternative explanation. If there's a plausible alternative and the speaker has no pattern of anti-semitism, then it's not anti-semitism no matter how the invested can connect the dots. That's the measure I've always used both professionally and personally.

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