I am using my own standard Amazon ID here, but if someone can nominate a worthwhile organization with an Amazon ID which is really likely to annoy Sean Hannity, Michael Goldfarb etc, let me know, and I will amend accordingly.

One can make Amazon purchases via a link on Socialist Worker’s website which will benefit the International Socialist Organization, a Trotskyist group (of which, full disclosure, I am a member). The Amazon link is this, though I’m not sure it will work correctly outside the context of the SW website.

David Horowitz’ endorsement:
“The International Socialist Organization is a group of Marxist loonies who hate America and are deluded into thinking they can set up a dictatorship of the proletariat in this country, destroying its freedoms and making it vulnerable to the Islamo-fascists they admire. I have personally been the target of their violent attacks and disruptions on numerous occasions.”

Dan Simon sez
If there’s one thing that’s completely beyond the pale here at Crooked Timber, it’s intolerance of anti-Semitism.

So I take that to mean that those of us who’re not in love with Netanyahuism (and American neo-conservatism) either, are, like, anti-Self or something?

Sheesh.
^_J.

Khaladi may well be wrong in the analysis, and he may be exhibiting bias, but it’s witless to claim that statement only bears interpretation as anti-Semitic. Again, critique of US and/or Israeli policy is not inherently anti-Semitic. Do you have difficult with this basic fact? Is it possible in your mind that someone might decry Israels place in US foreign policy without being an anti-semite? There is nothing difficult about this, really

Perhaps I’m only feeding a troll here, in which case, apologies to all.

ANTI-SEMITE ! ! !

I don’t know whether Khalidi has actually stated any anti-Semitic views. Your quote, particularly without context, shows nothing of the sort, rendering your attempt at sarcasm embarrassingly inept. I haven’t enough information to form an opinion on his views of Jewish people, but do note that any Palestinian has plenty of call for sentiments against the state of Israel and of US middle east policy quite separable from sentiments against the Jewish peoples. Also, he is being attacked from quite a number or disreputable sources, which proves nothing but is usually a good sign the the claims are at best, distorted if not groundless.

I suspect you don’t believe a word of what you wrote, but on the off chance that you really are as illiterate as your misrepresentation of the quote suggests, I’ll note for yourself then, or any other trying to work in a misreading of what I’ve said, that everything I point out above holds regardless of how much of the balance of blame for Israel and Palestine’s relationship lies on the part of the Palestinians. I wouldn’t want to leave any opening for libeling me myself as anti-Semitic which , though laughable, seems to be the first resort in so many related discussions.

Which is really the point of this reply. It annoys me that it’s become almost impossible to have a reasonable discussion about these and related topics without it being nearly immediately drowned out by moronic claims and counter-claims of anti-Semitism. Not, of course, that such positions don’t really exist. You’d never know it from the discourse, though.

Dan – you know you are banned from commenting on my posts, This is a final warning – one more offense and I move for a sitewide ban.