Abuse Of language & Facts

The jewabuse of history
Norman Finkelstein has written a new book, Beyond Chuztpah, which is a play on the title of Alan Dershowitz's book, simply called Chutzpah. Chutzpah, for the one or two of you who don't know, means jewish brazenness or gall. Finkestein's book is subtitled: On the misuse of anti-semitism and the abuse of history, but could just as easily have said "on the abuse of language".

Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Zionazi terrorists' contrive controversy. Whenever zionazi "jews" come under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.

Excellent timing given that we are in the throes of just such a media campaign right now. Outlawing anti-Zionism? - [http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/]
At a time when we are hearing more reports, conferences and complaints of anti-semitism, the Zionist movement has decided that the time is right to muddy the waters by having anti-zionism listed by the UN as a form of racism.

A number of leading international Zionist organizations including the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the World Jewish Congress, have initiated a campaign to this effect.

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Needless to say, anti-Zionism is no more "racist" or anti-Jewish than anti-Fascism is anti-Italian or anti-Nazism is anti-German. To equate an ethnocentric and openly discriminatory political nationalist movement with the religion or ethnicity of the offending party is just as racist whether committed by true anti-Semites ("all Jews are Zionists and hate Arabs") or by the Zionists themselves ("Zionism represents all Jews, therefore any anti-Zionist expression is against all Jews"). That major elements of the Zionist movement would adopt a racist argument in order to oppose the charge of racism can be no surprise.

If this measure is adopted then it's another nail in the coffin of the UN.