This is Howard Jacobson in 2007. I don't like his books much - but he clearly is an extremely intelligent man and an excellent speaker and advocate.
I also agree with quite a bit of what he says. Like him, I dislike boycotts - even of Israel - but unlike him, I do see Israel and an unchecked and abusive Jewish power as a very particular and dangerous evil.
Ah well , we'll just have to agree to differ.
What I would like to know (and I have an open mind as to what his answer might be) is this: Does he apply the same principles of respectful listening to Holocaust revisionists as he does to Israeli academics?
If you're there, Howard, do send in your answer.
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.ca/2013/01/israeli-soldiers-kidnapped-900-children.html
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' and agree that he's a talented man. The first part of his talk was music to my ears. I also hate the certainty from which much activism springs. But when he came to defending Israel and using the dreaded 'antisemitism' accusation I felt much less comfortable. The missing element in his thinking, as you indicate Paul, is Jewish power.
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