| This article and the framing of it are yet another example of the new anti-semitism. Finklestein is on record as long being a supporter of the two state solution. He is labeled an anti-semite and a self-hating Jew for exposing the rampant corruption in the handling of money supposedly for holocaust survivors. Is anyone really surprised at corruptioin in another Israeli agency? He also has had the temerity to discuss in America the obviously apartheid system in the occupied territories. Many Israelis may be surprised to learn that while these are lively discussion topics in Israel, they are taboo in the US. Dershowitz, on the other hand, is one of the leading advocates of official US government torture. Most of the so-called supporters of Israel abroad are primarily wealthy supporters of extreme Likud positions while many American Jews (and British too?) simply remain silent, for fear of being labeled by these groups or accidentally lending support to the real anti-semites, |
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