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How to Hide the Truth: Change the Subject, or call the speaker a racist.
Normally I'm big up on the Palestinian Crisis in Israel. It's the modern day equivalent of the holocaust, or the south-african apartheid, only with the Israeli gov't killing/maiming/dehumanizing the Palestinian people. Thus I wasn't terribly surprised when I read this:
The article goes on to discuss this poor woman, who linked to another Joe Quinn piece, and now she gets onslaughts of 'racist' and 'antisemite'. This doesn't surprise me in the least. Whilst I was involved with newsvine, I often posted articles critical of Israel, and commented on those discussing the crisis and the same thing happened to me.
After a time, it became obvious that a very vocal, very subversive and very persistent group of people happened to do much of the decrying. It also became obvious that they would generate multiple user accounts and tag-team, to give their 'opinion' the appearance of validity.
Now this same phenomenon is happening abroad in the Jerusalem Post and on UK Publications and I'm not shocked at all. Their big flaw, imho is that they use the same cheap tactic again and again - then again it works often enough - simply call the speaker racist and it changes the entire subject from 'The Palestinian Crisis' to 'Everyone hates the Jews', and before you know it people are wasting energy trying to defend themselves when that was the whole point - to change the subject.
Dirty tricks, then again - they likely learned from the best.
Anti-semitism, British Academia and the Israel Lobby
Joe Quinn
Fri, 29 Aug 2008
Every year since 2002 the University and College Union (UCU), the largest trade union and professional association for academics working in further and higher education throughout the UK, has attempted to implement some form of boycott of Israeli academic institutions that have been shown to be complicit in the ongoing persecution of the Palestinian people. And each year, amid much acrimony and cries of "anti-semitism", boycotters meet with significant resistance from pro-Israeli members of British academia, and other institutions.
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The article goes on to discuss this poor woman, who linked to another Joe Quinn piece, and now she gets onslaughts of 'racist' and 'antisemite'. This doesn't surprise me in the least. Whilst I was involved with newsvine, I often posted articles critical of Israel, and commented on those discussing the crisis and the same thing happened to me.
After a time, it became obvious that a very vocal, very subversive and very persistent group of people happened to do much of the decrying. It also became obvious that they would generate multiple user accounts and tag-team, to give their 'opinion' the appearance of validity.
Now this same phenomenon is happening abroad in the Jerusalem Post and on UK Publications and I'm not shocked at all. Their big flaw, imho is that they use the same cheap tactic again and again - then again it works often enough - simply call the speaker racist and it changes the entire subject from 'The Palestinian Crisis' to 'Everyone hates the Jews', and before you know it people are wasting energy trying to defend themselves when that was the whole point - to change the subject.
Dirty tricks, then again - they likely learned from the best.
