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liberalpragmatist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-19-06 06:18 PM
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24. So we're all anti-Semites because somebody else is?
Firstly, I don't even go so far in criticizing Israel as to call Ariel Sharon a terrorist or that Israeli actions are Nazi. But to imply that people who are anti-Israeli are anti-Semites because David Duke uses some of the same arguments as Israeli-critics is ridiculous guilt-by-association.

Walt and Mearsheimer address this in their counter-response to the responses to their article:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n09/letters.html

Regrettably, some of our critics have tried to smear us by linking us with overt racists, thereby suggesting that we are racists or anti-semites ourselves. Michael Taylor, for example, notes that our article has been ‘hailed’ by Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke (6 April). Alan Dershowitz implies that some of our material was taken from neo-Nazi websites and other hate literature (20 April). We have no control over who likes or dislikes our article, but we regret that Duke used it to promote his racist agenda, which we utterly reject. Furthermore, nothing in our piece is drawn from racist sources of any kind, and Dershowitz offers no evidence to support this false claim. We provided a fully documented version of the paper so that readers could see for themselves that we used reputable sources.


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