In These Times

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• • 04 Jul 09
  • 1:03 pm

  spatter, It's beyond me how you could have read any of my columns - (including this one, of course) and then come to the conclusion that I don't "support progressive causes." I've been a left-wing activist for over forty years now. Would you like to be more specific? Ken Brociner

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• • 26 Apr 09
  • 11:55 am

  Shirah, I just "tuned into" this discussion after having unplugged from it a while ago. I want to salute you for showing such intelligence, clear logic, human decency, and amazing patience in this debate. I suspect that the reason you are being so persistent is for the benefit of those who might be following along, rather than to try to open the minds of people like Imran and CCI whose hatred of Israel trumps everything else. Good for you! I myself have much more limited patience for any sort of dialogue with people like that. I have already gone back and …

  Posted to To Boycott Israel…or Not?

• • 28 Apr 09
  • 12:29 pm

  Very impressively "written" CCI... which anti-Semitic website did you copy that screed from? As for Imran...you are such an open-minded, generous of spirit, kind of guy. After all, you do recognize the fact that Israel exists and will continue to do so (however unfortunate that may be from your point of view).But your ideological absolutism causes you to insist that Israel was born in utter sin - and that's all there is to it! It also leads you to look down your nose (with such dogmatic certainty that it very closely resembles fanaticism) at any and all people who see shades …

  Posted to To Boycott Israel…or Not?

• • 30 Apr 09
  • 3:51 pm

  CCI please tell me - just how do Zionist Jews "act and smell".?..and Imran pray tell - how does a "fact based historian" like yourself - who is so far above anti-Semitism - just how is it that you are making common cause with someone like CCI? And THIS time, I mean it - no more comments from me- you two deserve each other and aren't worth 5 seconds more of my time.

  Posted to To Boycott Israel…or Not?

• • 25 Feb 09
  • 12:42 am

  I'll try to reply to the various critical comments that have been made about what I wrote - in the order in which they have been posted. Epistrophy: I believe I was quite clear about who I was referring to when I said that "most sectors of the left" have taken very one-sided positions in the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. When the overwhelming majority of the 49 writers who were published by Alternet during Israel's offensive against Hamas issue dogmatic and oversimplified criticism of Israeli history and politics, I believe that this, by definition, includes most sectors of the left. Why? …

  Posted to Israel, Gaza and the Left