Is this anti-semitism?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo#Criticism_and_controversy

Elmo has been referred to as the "Little Red Menace" by Sesame Street traditionalists[7]

dying @ "Elmo IMPOSTER"

IOC shot down proposal to hold 1 minute of silence for the Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich terror attacks. 40 year anniversary, 10th anniversary game-wise... The Olympic Committee makes a lot of stupid decision but there's a lot of people saying its antisemitism that's the real reason they won't do the minute of silence. Then again the people making this argument are saying it in articles like this and I'm not sure what to think:

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/106409/jewish-blood-is-cheap

can't say I really give a shit

well thanks for posting then!

I don't know if I'd say "antisemitism" but there's a good chance there's arab-israeli-euroleft politics in there and a smidgen of cravenness as well.

yeah, the salivating of both sides to jump on it as proof of their point is so depressing that i'm not even going to click a story on it.

yeah the comment thread is quite the echo chamber of sanctimony and indignance, as you might expect. I think they should have the moment of silence though. I mean it has to be one of the scariest, worst, most tragic thing that ever happened to an olympic games. I mean what about making secondary that it was Israelis and remembering that olympic athletes were killed -- that's the kind of spirit the olympics ought to have, I would think.

Did they do anything in 1992 for the 20th?

i don't really care, but even eurovision commemorated it when it was held in munich

I'm certainly aware that there's a contingent who is probably trying to make a flag pin out of this issue, as it were.

flag pin = the new shibboleth?

http://youngcontrarian.tumblr.com/post/14914351170/gore-vidal-and-the-jewish-question

In “Pink Triangle and Yellow Star” in particular, Vidal seems irked by the very notion of a conservatively-minded Jewish sensibility, or commentators who might advocate for interests not of immediate importance to isolationists like himself. Indeed, Vidal has long argued retrospectively against American involvement in the Second World War, in Europe or otherwise, and in the lead-up to the conflict was a supporter of Charles Lindbergh and the America First Committee.

when he was what, 14?

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/books/99/08/05/SEXUALLY_SPEAKING.html

Gore Vidal's ideas about sex grow out of his ideas about himself: he is one of the last American aristocrats ("My family helped start [this country], and we've been in political life . . . since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country"), and is angry at what new immigrants ("I think the Roman Catholic arrivals here have not been -- how shall I put this tactfully -- a great addition to our Republic") and the national security state have done to erode his patrimony. That patrimony includes a dignified tolerance that extends to sexual matters, and this is the principle that underlies his witty and entertaining polemics against the intolerant masses. But every cause that Vidal embraces has deeper and better bases for support than those he advances in Sexually Speaking. "All men are created equal" may not date back quite as far as the 1690s, but it is a better defense of liberty, sexual and otherwise, than the one presented here.

"how shall I put this tactfully"

Young Contrarian taking on Old and now Dead Contrarian in weak blog shocka.

wtf http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/08/28/michigan-state-student-brutally-beaten-in-anti-semitic-attack/

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_spectator/2012/08/_holocaust_obsessed_it_s_the_new_anti_semitic_slur_.html

missed that vidal piece from a few weeks back but GV got the same treatment from salon, slate, the new republic, and a few other places when he died -- paul berman's essay was especially dishonest and infuriating.

"...often used by Jews as an epithet to describe other Jews. "

So is the question whether a Jew can be an anti-semite?

272,000 google hits is nothing, basically

So is the question whether a Jew can be an anti-semite?

we prefer the term self-hating Jew thank you very much

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ugh, fuck ron rosenbaum

can he write an article without being a dick about hannah arendt

whoah waht yeah that's a dealbreaker for me

lol i haven't even read it yet

does he call her a nazi groupie?

I didn't get this far but max otm

One thing the new evidence has done is re-enforce a perception I’ve had that Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” description of Eichmann—the concept of “banality of evil” itself—is now looking ever more foolish. I’ve argued that Arendt arrogantly and ignorantly bought into Eichmann’s defense that he was “just following orders” in a way that absolved him from the “radical evil” that she, Arendt, once believed in.

A little more info about the jewish mouth stapling bizarro crime above:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2019017260_apuscollegestudentattacked.html

tbh i instantly check out when a writer feels the need to remind us that he's 'already argued' something in the past.

xpWhich if you listen to the police basically = kid got beat up for some nonsense and then made up ridiculous anti-semitic fantasy which his parents are now running with...

way to not get it, ron

I’ve argued that Arendt arrogantly and ignorantly bought into Eichmann’s defense

no, fuck you

he had a long terrible thing last year about arendt that was similarly and more insistently wrong, i mean almost a complete misreading

Hannah Arendt: too nuanced, insufficiently vengeful

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_spectator/2012/08/_holocaust_obsessed_it_s_the_new_anti_semitic_slur_.html

― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:16 (1 hour ago) Permalink

this article is complete crap and I couldn't finish it

kid got beat up for some nonsense and then made up ridiculous anti-semitic fantasy which his parents are now running with...

this was my suspicion tbh. getting yr mouth stapled shut is such a WTF method of assault there was no way that was real

xp lol i haven't even read it yet

I really think there might be a little more to what Arendt meant by "the banality of evil" than Rosenbaum is giving credit for

Nope that's it, that's why she's arrogant and ignorant, right?

there's the whole sleeping w/ a nazi thing too

(nb i really like arendt's writing and i mean any digs itt in jest)

if you HAD to pick one nazi to bone...

iirc the last rosenbaum column on arendt leaned really heavily on her relationship w/ heidegger as a reason to dismiss her

while we're chatting about arendt, this is my fave book of hers

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41K59C6E96L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

also, since it is the anti-semitism thread, i've never read origins of totalitarianism but i've always been curious about

http://bks3.books.google.com/books?id=-zjXRAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&imgtk=AFLRE711ebuQ2-0G-kc8srAtXPbzm0J-vGmxnPiGtuLSbwG66EsEoptaUo2FsT2h8O5ick72K19iTd1YFBkA8K3FdMtrFMoweFbHE4g0BJebEVvqSGpWDTn8ulbNPk-Y1Tp_my_yHj_f

every rosenbaum article reads exactly like this one. pissy, long, and full of pompous references to himself and how smart he is.

http://m.forward.com/articles/162511

I would answer in the affirmative, in regards to the thread title.