Comments on: Pro-Israel Neocons Torpedo Juan Cole Appointment at Yale

By: The New McCarthyism « The Heathlander

The New McCarthyism « The Heathlander — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:16:13 +0000

[...] Furthermore, the lobby’s chilling effect on academic discourse is still very much intact. As Larry Cohler-Esses [...]

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:25:44 +0000

You’re a blithering idiot to call Juan Cole either an anti-Semite or anti-Zionist. He is neither & I dare you to produce any statements by him that could reasonably be characterized as that.

I don’t know if I’d call Israel “the most dangerous regime in the ME” but it’s certainly in a dead heat with Iran. If after Lebanon, you don’t acknowledge the danger that Israel poses not only to the ME, but to itself, then you’re blind as a post when it comes to seeing the reality before your nose.

Juan Cole is an “extremist” because he criticizes Israel? Big deal. I’m a progressive Zionist & I criticize Israel too. Call me an anti-Zionist, I dare you. And then when you do, produce a shred of evidence for the calumny. Go ahead, I dare you.

By: Your Favorite Rich Uncle

Your Favorite Rich Uncle — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:50:36 +0000

“blog world itself is both diminished and assaulted when our blog peers are assaulted within their professional fields for the perfectly reasonable, though controversial things they may write.”

Juan Cole, the man who calls Israel “the most dangerous regime in the Middle East” is not perfectly reasonable, nor is he professional in his egregious conspiracy theories and polemics. Bloggers have every right, nay a duty, to expose the depths Juan Cole has plumbed and to expose him as an extremist and discreditable anti-semite (oh, no, cant call him that, have to use PC words like “anti-Zionist”).

By: billmon

billmon — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:21:51 +0000

“We should all be ashamed of what Scott Johnson at Powerline, who after all must have impeccable academic credentials in this field to have assaulted the qualifications of Cole”

I assume you are being sarcastsic here, since if Scott Johnson, or any of the other members of hte Powerlie lynch mob — have any credential whatsoever in the field of Midlde Eastern studies, they’ve done a pretty good job of hiding their lights under bushel baskets.

But you also seem to have misled your capition writer:

“Highly-credentialed Mideast specialist Scott Johnson of Powerline led charge against Juan Cole”

Unless he/she is also being funny — in an even dryer way.