Sunday, August 15, 2010

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Anonymous said...

My cutest experience I have come across while following the happenings around London's Ahava shop is that the pro-BDS-ones are very quick to protest anything that smacks of guilty by association. They protest loudly and vehemently.

On the other hand they have plastered after this Saturday's event their websites "proving" that a prominent pro-Ahava-one is associated with a as they claim racist British group which has shown up as opponent to BDS - the proof of the pro-Israel being "married" now is a picture where they are seen moving on the street in the same direction. It isn't even clear how close they are. But the Fake Ibrahims of this world are ululating at this "proof" of "racism" of the pro Israel crowd.

There should be courses in strategy how one can deal with people who have no scruples whatsoever while keeping one's own credibility intact.

The links to the BDS dirt is in the thread to this post - crtl-F for Inky


Bryan said...

The BDS article is dead on. It's impossible to beat them because they consider any action you take (even inaction) as a victory. It reminds me of the "calculus of death" for the Palestinians: if an Israeli dies, it's a victory; if a Palestinian dies and Israel did it, it's a victory; if a Palestinian dies and Israel didn't do it, blame Israel and it's a victory.

The Goldfoot letter is wonderful.

From Fishbane's description, the Israel Museum doesn't seem any more ethnocentric (nationalcentric?) than some parts of the Smithsonian or other national museums.

Don Cox said...

"His thesis is that if Jews would be nice to folks, folks might like Jews."

He needs to read some history. The Jews in Europe in the 19C and early 20C were as nice as nice can be, even converting (or pretending to convert) to Christianity en masse.

Anonymous said...


it is said that Jews died in disproportionate numbers fighting for Germany in WW1 ...

how "nice" are you supposed to get until you may expect that it does you any good?

I believe the story because my grandfather insisted after WW2 that the best that could happen to you in WW1 in the trenches was, if your neighbour was a Jew (and not an Austrian;). Other than that I'd say that my grandfather was a "know nothing" German.


Dan said...

I have to say I agree, the museum has spent so much effort on the relaunch and the new building, but the exhibits are still not that great. It is a shame they didn't curate a really good exhibition to compliment the building.