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Sanctioning Jewish deaths
Giulio Meotti
Published: 18.06.11, 17:19
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1. Wrap yourself in your blanket
Someone ,   Somewhere   (06.18.11)
I like that there is a focus on Sartre for the awful crime of "not being censored." Lets completely ignore "Anti-Semite and Jew," where he eviscerates anti-Semites as scared, hate filled idiots. After that, a quick jump from "thinks terrorism is used by oppressed people" to "supports Jihadi totalitarianism" is completely logical. Oh no, Jose Saramago compared a blockaded city to Auschwitz! I mean, constantly calling the 1967 borders "The Auschwitz Borders" is totally fine, but how dare you use it for people actually being locked into a small area! And a bunch more intellectuals (about half of the list being Jewish) are opposed to Israel's policies outside of the 1967 borders, and have terrible things to say about it! The horror! Finish up with a reference to "Snow White and The Madness of Truth" as "eulogizing" and call it a day. As always, the fact that the piece referred to Hanadi as a monster in the eyes of god is irrelevant.
2. Authoritarian ideologues....
carlos ,   San Diego U.S.A.   (06.18.11)
from the left or the right are the enemies. They always can switch from nazism to, antisemitic leftism to jihadism. Their common denominator is hate for the Jews and arrogance. They cannot stand a free and prosoperous Jews (their former victims). They can say anything about everybody but chicken out when they see the truth. What a load of sh.... people. The enemies of humanity!
3. Why should we be surprised? Hatred of Jews
Alex ,   USA   (06.18.11)
is a part of the European cultural landscape and the European DNA. .
4. intellectual anti-semitism
George Brown ,   New York   (06.18.11)
Leftists have always hated Jews. Now they say they hate Israel but not Jews. And we should not forget that the top the antisemites are Jews - leftist Jews, self-hating Jews.
5. A new shoah...
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (06.18.11)
Forget about asshats of whatever nationality or political persuasion! You do what they taught you to do only too well: You outsmart them, you outproduce them, and you outlive them!
6. meotti's powerful language
hanna-gaby k ,   austria   (06.18.11)
Giulio Meotti - "Genocide in Israel " google it, it is an amazing and emotional interview given by giulio meotti..
7. Jostein Gaarder
hanna-gaby k.   (06.18.11)
i remember the commotion about the essay of this norwegian writer . he basically said that israel had no right to exist. the reactions to his statements were very intense--something he did not reckon with. he then immiediately stepped back calling himself a humanist, friend of jews, a democrate and god knows what not. of course, his bottom line was "i actually like jews". i wonder how can one actually "like jews" , yet deny israel's right to exist. my conclusion: "jew-haters are an irrational and neuroptically driven bunch "
8. Just because someone is an intellectual
jason white ,   afula, israel   (06.18.11)
does not mean he or she is smart. Or not a hate filled person. Or an honest one. Many do not have street smarts. A lot of these intellectuals and experts do not see the whole picture. Someone can write great books, but cannot do anything else. They are not smart enough to see past their prejudices. Their hate of the Jews, even if they are "jews" blinds them to the truth.
9. Only bad "news" is good news?
N.N ,   N.   (06.18.11)
The op-eds are almost always about how bad the "world" or some "important" people think or behave in respect to Israel. It's the same kind of op-ed over and over again (o.k. there is sometimes a "liberal" op-ed, but always about higly politcal topics with angry talkbacks). Why are the op-ed always that politcal? Why are there no op-eds about the economy or something else?
10. Barbarism has become acceptable in the western media
DavidM ,   USA   (06.18.11)
This article needs to be read by everyone. Anti-Semitism and its accompanying barbarism has become fully acceptable in much of the foreign media and academia.We have the spectacle of the New York Times inviting Libyan dictator Qadaffi to write for its op ed page and Vogue magazine gushing over the Assads as hip fashion plates shortly before they unleashed a massacre of the Syrian people.Despite the atrocities these dictators committed there is still no apology or retraction from these journals.
11. fabulous
Marion ,   Geneve   (06.18.11)
Fabulous indictment by Meotti of contemporary intellectuals
12. well said Carlos
IlanaB   (06.18.11)
I need add nothing else.
13. Intellectual anti-semitism?
Miro Schwartz ,   Shtetl - EU   (06.18.11)
Yes, and not as a surprise ...: Diaspora Jewish as well as Israeli intellectuals, cultural icons have much Semitic Palestinian blood on their hands.
14. Meotti is 100% right and Israel must act against them...
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15. Miro Schwartz
Gábor Fränkl ,   EU   (06.18.11)
You yourself prove Meooti's point, even though you are drastically far from being an "intellectual". Antisemite brainwashed fantasist yes perhaps, but definitely not intellectual.
16. This so-called intellectuals
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (06.18.11)
Will never settle for anything less than our total and complete genocide. Well there have been others before them that wanted the same and they have disappeared into history. The only people the endure are the Jews and that is really the kicker for these racists. We will be here long after they are nothing more than a footnote in history.
17. nutbag
bill ,   canada   (06.18.11)
you do not have any worry ; no one is going to israel education atheletic and artist boycotts are in gear now the economic boycott boycott apartheid israel
18. definition of an 'intellectual:
tiki ,   belgium   (06.18.11)
"A person, who uses 'intelligence (thought & reason) and 'critical and/or 'analytical reasoning in either a professional or personal capacity". When it comes to Jews & Israel these 'intellectuals' let their tribal hatred prevail. It's 'ignorance versus intelligence, it's 'blind & thoughtless critic versus analystic reasoning, its not professional but 'very personal. It's the old & primitiv Jew hatred. There's nothing 'interlectual about it.
19. The worse antisemitic are men and women with university
Anna M Sedda ,   Rome-Italy   (06.18.11)
...degrees...yes,the more they study the more they Are anti-semitic....can it be that all their time spend on the books have Made them go mental?
20. "Intellectuals" Sanctioning Jewish Deaths
Moll ,   Calgary, Canada   (06.18.11)
What we keep forgetting is that the Creator-G-d of Israel, made man with a conscience. That conscience does not want to be reminded that it is accountable to the Creator-God of Israel for thoughts, words & actions. Because of Mt. Sinai/Horeb, where the Creator-G-d of Israel chose a people to represent Him on earth to the pagan gentiles, these chosen children of Israel continuously remind the gentiles that they are accountable. The gentiles don't like it. Since the gentiles can't see the Creator-G-d of Israel, to pick on Him, they pick on the target they can see, which is a people, known as the "children of Israel". Accountability and a guilty conscience, is why the gentile hates the jew. The jew like a finger pointing to the heavens, continuously reminds the gentile that s/he is accountable. If the pagan gentile can rid the earth of these "sabbath-keeper" reminders, will the pagan gentile then be happy? No. At that point, the gentile will pick on the "sunday keepers". And so it goes. "The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked", so wrote the prophet Isaiah. This desperately wicked heart can also be found amongst self-hating, israel-trashing jews. These individual jews are busy, busy colluding with the enemy of the jews to bring about fall of the collective jew as in the State of Israel. In crisis, the family SHOULD/OUGHT to stand together. Remember Ba'alim of Peor! He was hired to "curse" his own people, the children of Israel. Even his donkey had more brains than he!!
21. Intellectuals & anti-semistism
Rozie   (06.18.11)
During WWII the intellectuals, not the simple farmers, were the first to join Hitler and burn Jewish books and be part of the SS movement. It is so irrational that today's intellectuals defend regimes and tyrannies where women are stoned, gays are burned and hanged, no religious rights for any group other than radicals. It is the most illogical and strange behavior. To say it simply--they hate Jewish. The same old hate that has been around for thousands of years.
22. Award
Leah ,   UK   (06.19.11)
Israel should award and thank Giulio Meotti for his book and articles
23. BILL, THE CANADA "NUTBAG"
Brant ,   Hilton Head SC   (06.19.11)
What "apartheid"? Where do you fools get this crap? is there and Israel-hater manual you use? It's always the same ridiculous accusations. Meanwhile, the Israelo economy soars; Israe;;i culture fluorishes; the Flotilla is falling apart'; civilized western nations will vote against recognition of a Palestinian State at the UN; the Arab Spring has turned into Arab deaths by dictators; Egypt is a mess; the liitle King in Jordan isn under threat. Hamas in the West Bank is fighting Hamas in Syria; Abbas is fighting with Dahlan; Haniyeh won;t accept Fayyad and on and on. Keep ranting Bill. Keep on slinging those empty words....
24. Perhaps it is fueled by jealousy
R ,   Israel   (06.19.11)
These "intellectuals" have a lot of competition in their various fields from Jews. Wouldn't they love to get rid of the Jews and thus the competition?
25. the power of death and life is in the tongue
Ramon   (06.19.11)
and they that love it (life or death) shall eat the fruit thereof. the world (except for the born-agains and the Jews) have chosen for death - and that's what they're going to get... their eyes are going to melt out of their sockets when they attack Israel, as the prophets long ago predicted...
26. Intellectuals, Liberals & Progressists
armand Kidouchim ,   calabasas, CA   (06.19.11)
Share in common a morbid jealousy of higher intellect and higher knowledge than their limited brain can handle. Jewish wisdom, Jewish knowledge & Jewish contribution to mankind dwarf them too much, hence their anti-semitic inclinations. This bunch of Nitwits knows so little but yet think they have the right to judge and to establish moral equivalencies. History will forget them but Jewish contributions.n
27. Jewish intellectuals
AKUS ,   Washington, DC.   (06.19.11)
Sadly, so many of these intellectuals with blood on their hands are Jews who find every reason to excuse anti-Semitism and blame Israel and Israelis for defending themselves.
28. Ultimately political tinnef
Susya Bar Dror ,   IL   (06.19.11)
Who are they? Mostly political and academic failures, buddying with islamic terrorists. Nobody else is interested in them. Except haters of jews and Israel.
29. betrayal like Dreyfus
Yanay ,   Israel   (06.19.11)
This beautiful article exposes perfectly the betrayal of western intellectuals, as during Dreyfus's case
30. Innocent
Yariv ,   Israel   (06.19.11)
The intellectuals wonderfully depicted by Meotti have many innocent Jews on their own conscience
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