Frankly, philipacentaur, I'm surprised. I thought you were being sarcastic when you called me a "Jew-lister", because I had a higher opinion of you than to think you would fall for such idiotic agit-prop. Go figure. Glad you cleared that up.
We're clearly just trying to humiliate the compassionate Jew Listers for showing their deeply felt emotions on a public forum.
Who's "we"?
"Humiliating" me? If that's your target, all those noisy blanks have, not surprisingly, missed the mark.
Dream's End, Orz, Professor Pan and philipacentaur, you all seem so excited, you apparently think that the accusation of "anti-semitism!!" is the Excalibur of debate, annihilating whomever you attack with it.
I hate to break it to you, your Excalibur is rusted and blunt, having been soaked for too many years in too much innocent blood, and having been passed around to too many people who abused it, who got it dirty and never cleaned it.
Too bad for you, and for your fellow zionists, it's all you have on a board like this, an arena where only ideas count, meaning logic, facts and that intangible something that makes us human beings, capable of empathy and moral discernment.
Joe, you're very mistaken if you think that opposing one form of injustice or oppression makes a person less likely to oppose another. This is a lesson I learned very well, back in my activist college days. Students who were well-informed and engaged in promoting justice and dignity for women, minorities, workers, and an end to apartheid in South Africa, were likely to be highly receptive to seeing the parallels between the Palestinian struggle and theirs, regardless of whether or not they were Jewish. By working together, we exponentially increased the impact of each of our groups, because of, not in spite of, each group maintaining its focus and area of expertise.
Maybe you're thinking of the Holocaust cult and the whole "anti-semitism" obsession, and how, not only is it used to distract from ongoing crimes and oppression, but to justify them.
But that would be like comparing the wolf in sheep's clothing, with the sheep. This wolf may drape itself in the tattered skin of a dead sheep, but it can't help acting like a wolf; it even hangs out with other wolves, not sheep. The Holocaust cult and the relentless harping on "anti-semitism", the promotion of hysteria about the looming annihilation of the Jews, are tools wielded by the elite, and serve exclusively elite purposes at the expense of true victims of oppression and injustice, whether they be Jewish or Palestinian Muslims or Christians, or Iraqis, or Americans.
And Sunny, as for "preaching hate", that is what zionist agents do from every bully pulpit there is, to dehumanize those whom Israel robs and kills, and to distract from the reality that legally and morally, they are butt naked. The corporate media has played a crucial role in normalizing the racist view of Arabs as subhuman and evil, and therefore
undeserving of human rights. It is too pervasive, too systematic, too monolithic, in popular books, movies, tv and newspapers, especially when contrasted with the adulation and prominence given to fanatic zionist clowns like Daniel Pipes, Michael Ledeen, William Kristol and Alan Derschowitz, in that same media.
Muslims make up around the same proportion of the U.S. population, 2-3%, as Jews. I'm going to ask you
ANOTHER question that you will not answer, Professor Pan (your buddies are welcome to answer as well):
If it were Muslims instead of Jews, who wielded such power in the U.S. corporate media;
and if the corporate media were as viciously anti-Jewish as it currently is anti-Muslim;
if a Muslim-supremacist, expansionist state were committing genocide against Jews in the Middle East during this same period, with the support of powerful Muslim organizations in the U.S., and in the name of all Muslims:
would you similarly wet your pants if someone posted a list of all the Muslim decision-makers in the U.S. corporate media, as context for this phenomenon?
Let's see if you can come up with an answer that passes the giggle test...