Comments on: I’m So Glad We’ve Got Gilad

By: aemathisphd

aemathisphd — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:22:52 +0000

Seriously, Paul, do you not see the deniers doing this, i.e., seizing on an inconsistency in eyewitness testimony rather than focusing on the “whole argument,” i.e., that those witnesses agree in the main, that documents support what they’re saying, and that forensic examinations support the historiography as well?

By: aemathisphd

aemathisphd — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:17:23 +0000

Yeah, I doubt that on a variety of levels.

By: Paul Eisen

Paul Eisen — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:04:59 +0000

You truly have had an impact. I’ve learned a lot.

By: aemathisphd

aemathisphd — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:57:48 +0000

Apparently, I’ve so affected you, Paul, that everyone who disagrees with you is now me.

I couldn’t begin to tell you the names of Palestinian solidarity orgs in the UK. Sorry to disappoint.

By: Jay Knott

Jay Knott — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:23:36 +0000

I don’t know what Francis thinks about capitalism, but his critique of Jewish power is compatible with both supporting and opposing the former. A libertarian would say capitalism is the best society available, and that Jewish power blocks its bounty. An anti-capitalist would say Jewish power makes it worse (for example, perpetuating apartheid). Palestine solidarity is a single issue thing which should unite both. It doesn’t, because its dominated by Jewish lefties.

By: Paul Eisen

Paul Eisen — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:50:07 +0000

My goodness, you really do sound like Dr Mathis.

Come on Dr Mathis, joke over.

By: aemathisphd

aemathisphd — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:46:43 +0000

Oh, irony, thy name is Paul.

This is PRECISELY what Holocaust deniers do, and YOU bought it.

By: Clarus

Clarus — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:00:57 +0000

It is suggestive of a lack of knowledge of relevant areas and of the author’s authority to shape the agenda of the solidarity movement. It is hardly like quibbling over a date or a number.

I’m afraid I don’t know who Dr Mathis is.

By: Paul Eisen

Paul Eisen — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:44:35 +0000

“Isn’t it quite embarrassing that you know so little about the Palestinian community in the UK that you could repeatedly refer to the ‘UK Palestine Community Network’ when no such body exists?”

You know, this is rather similar to what Dr Mathis practices. Find some detail that’s not quite right and try to use it to confuse and discredit the whole argument. Are you perhaps related?

By: Clarus

Clarus — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:36:38 +0000

Isn’t it quite embarrassing that you know so little about the Palestinian community in the UK that you could repeatedly refer to the ‘UK Palestine Community Network’ when no such body exists?

The statement was put out by the US Palestine Community Network, which you clearly mis-read. UK bodies such as the Association of Palestinian Communities and the Palestinian Forum in Britain have names which couldn’t be easily mistaken for them.

Also, if your view of Israel is one ‘we don’t hear much about it, except in Israeli propaganda‘ – can you explain why the pro-Palestine movement should adopt it for public campaigning? i.e. a line which Israel thinks is so useful it pays to push it out as propaganda?