Independent Media Center, Israel http://indymedia.org.il Left & Right Bigots Fuse Against FreedomThursday 27 Feb 2003 author: Rowan Berkeley

First, the well-worn right-wing cliche insult "judenrat", used to describe anyone who (in the mind of the speaker) is colluding in what he imagines to be the creeping genocide of the Jews of Eretz Israel. Most users of this site would agree with Professor Leibowitz that it is these same right-wing Jews (or rather their followers in the army and the militant settler movement), who are acting like Nazis-- it was Professor Leibowitz, an observant Orthodox Religious Jew, who coined the term "judeo-nazis" to describe them, thereby adding himself to the long tradition of anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox objectors. But never mind, these Greater Israel boys and girls will call anyone who criticises them a "Judenrat wannabee". Second, Ashkenazim have no rights because they are racists by birth. This is the Israeli equivalent of Louis Farrakhan, of course. Third, our academic defended Finkelstein. Well, Finkelstein didn't deny his academic opponents the right of reply. Nor should you, you intellectual thugs.

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