How did I know that the article posted to the Left Business Observer listserve, “Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion” was going to end up with comments like this one:
“What percentage of Zionista Jews work in the financial services sector that have no marketable skills, other than to make a living on screwing you the sheeple?”
And why is it not a surprise that the website which posted that piece of trash article did not remove the comment?
From Platypus Review, Nr. 33
(This is a reply to “Israel and Communism”, from Platypus Review, Nr 28)
MOISHE POSTONE ONCE REMARKED about the German left: “No western Left was as philo-Semitic and pro-Zionist prior to 1967. Probably none subsequently identified so strongly with the Palestinian cause. What was termed ‘anti-Zionism’ was in fact so emotionally and psychically charged that it went far beyond the bounds of a political and social critique of Zionism.”[1] Postone’s diagnosis, that the Israeli-Arab conflict served as a projection-screen for the psychological needs of the German left, is just as valid for the new political current which, since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in autumn 2000, has come to identify itself completely with the state of Israel.
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