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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (9351)	12/1/2005 4:11:16 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 22250

Tom, Under "normal" and less exclusive consideration, those words and sentiments by Devorah Lipstat would be labeled racist. "If Mr. Guttenplan has little positive to say about the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish critics of Mr. Irving, he displays even less empathy for Ms. Lipstadt, unless one takes as a compliment his description of her as "a woman with a bad back and a New York manner — more Bette Midler than Bess Myerson." Elsewhere, the author accuses Ms. Lipstadt of hypocrisy, saying he was made queasy by Penguin attorney Richard Rampton's examination of Mr. Irving's attitude toward intermarriage between the races, "when the defendant (Lipstadt) has written 'We know what we fight against: anti-Semitism and assimilation, intermarriage and Israel-bashing,' but who uttered not one word of public protest when her American publisher issued Charles Murray's neo-eugenicist tract 'The Bell Curve.'" Echoing the sentiments of Messrs. Novick and Finkelstein, Mr. Guttenplan argues that the American Jewish community cannot enjoy its prosperity and access to power while wearing the Holocaust as a badge of "martyrdom on the robes of power, a kind of amulet to ward off criticism," especially in attacking those who criticize Israeli policy. Indeed, Mr. Guttenplan agrees with those who write that when it comes to the "victimization Olympics," Jews have won the gold medal." len