How propaganda is produced: 125 world legal scholars condemn Israel pogrom, all labelled anti-Semite

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/08/01/former-un-official-charged-with-anti-semitism-now-california-academic-takes-on/

I think it is disgusting and anti-democratic for anyone to label another with vicious slander and smears at the mere suggestion that Israel is not the new Eden and it's leaders angels on earth, and here is an example of how it is done......isolate and demonize an individual and then use a broad brush to smear them all......an ad hominem fallacy used in a group smear.

Do not mention the contents of the letter, the other scholars and then run to the Heritage Foundation, a cesspool of extreme right wing nonsense led by the grandfather of the tea party for back up. It is disgusting, it is fascist in nature and the less people fooled, the less effective.

Do not let the propagandists and haters silence your legitimate voice.

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The “Joint Declaration by International Law Experts on Israel’s Gaza Offensive” is currently posted on Falk’s personal blog and is spreading through the left-wing blogosphere.

Falk adds that he and his fellow signatories “welcome additional signatures that can be sent to me in the comments section, with affiliation noted for identification, and names will be periodically added to the text.”

Joint Declaration by International Law Experts on Israel’s Gaza Offensive

"As international and criminal law scholars, human rights defenders, legal experts and individuals who firmly believe in the rule of law and in the necessity for its respect in times of peace and more so in times of war, we feel the intellectual and moral duty to denounce the grave violations, mystification and disrespect of the most basic principles of the laws of armed conflict and of the fundamental human rights of the entire Palestinian population committed during the ongoing Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. We also condemn the launch of rockets from the Gaza Strip, as every indiscriminate attack against civilians, regardless of the identity of the perpetrators, is not only illegal under international law but also morally intolerable. However, as also implicitly noted by the UN Human Rights Council in its Resolution of the 23th July 2014, the two parties to the conflict cannot be considered equal, and their actions – once again – appear to be of incomparable magnitude."

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http://richardfalk.wordpress.com
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Argumentum ad hominem (argument directed at the person). This is the error of attacking the character or motives of a person who has stated an idea, rather than the idea itself. The most obvious example of this fallacy is when one debater maligns the character of another debater (e.g, "The members of the opposition are a couple of fascists!&quot , but this is actually not that common. A more typical manifestation of argumentum ad hominem is attacking a source of information -- for example, responding to a quotation from Richard Nixon on the subject of free trade with China by saying, "We all know Nixon was a liar and a cheat, so why should we believe anything he says?" Argumentum ad hominem also occurs when someone's arguments are discounted merely because they stand to benefit from the policy they advocate -- such as Bill Gates arguing against antitrust, rich people arguing for lower taxes, white people arguing against affirmative action, minorities arguing for affirmative action, etc. In all of these cases, the relevant question is not who makes the argument, but whether the argument is valid.

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/08/01/former-un-official-charged-with-anti-semitism-now-california-academic-takes-on/

Sorry about the link to Fox, but sometimes you have to go into the henhouse to break a few eggs.

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Is this man also anti-Semite, the anti-Semite police should weigh in:


http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2013/04/09/last-of-warsaw-ghetto-survivors-calls-for-rebellion-against-israeli-occupation/

On Yom Ha-Shoah, one of the few remaining living survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto, Chavka Fulman-Raban, delivered a fierce denunciation of evil and injustice, including the Israeli Occupation.