Tuesday, August 18, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
The Nazification of Israel: Guardian op-ed by prominent European philosopher inverts Nazi terminology against Jewish state - '...It is a sign of the times, however, that the Nazification of Israel as a technique of denigration has begun to invade the mainstream. In my forthcoming book -- A State Beyond the Pale: Europe’s Problem with Israel -- I provide an entire section on the Nazi analogy as well as some opinion poll evidence on just how widespread its usage has become. A commentary in today’s Guardian by the prominent Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek offers a perfect illustration of how the technique is now employed...' (Also see Adloyada) [Another day, another European making Jewish Nazi references.]
