Comments on: Tikun Olam in the Media http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/04/19/tikun-olam-in-the-media/ Essays on politics, culture and ideas about Israeli-Arab peace and world music Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:06:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: svend http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/04/19/tikun-olam-in-the-media/#comment-23129 svend Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:35:59 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/04/19/tikun-olam-in-the-media/#comment-23129 Forgot to mention that an outspoken dissident like you is subjected to a hardship that even Muslims in this day of rampant Islamophobia rarely face: The ferocious hatred and bile of hardliners in your own community that consider your dissent treasonous and dangerous. Few things in this world are uglier than the fury of pro-Israeli zealots towards Jewish activists who try to dare to apply Jewish principles of justice to Israel. You really get a sense that they'd rend you limb from limb if they could. It's sickening. Forgot to mention that an outspoken dissident like you is subjected to a hardship that even Muslims in this day of rampant Islamophobia rarely face: The ferocious hatred and bile of hardliners in your own community that consider your dissent treasonous and dangerous.

Few things in this world are uglier than the fury of pro-Israeli zealots towards Jewish activists who try to dare to apply Jewish principles of justice to Israel. You really get a sense that they’d rend you limb from limb if they could. It’s sickening.

]]> By: svend http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/04/19/tikun-olam-in-the-media/#comment-23088 svend Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:23:57 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/04/19/tikun-olam-in-the-media/#comment-23088 This is so well deserved. Your blog's combination of quality writing, intellectual substance and courage makes it so precious and deserving of wide attention. Speaking truth to power is always a lonely and frustrating slog, and it's doubly so when you happen to be questioning sacred cows that are relentlessly whitewashed by the MSM. It's also exhausting, as you must constantly contend with hordes of intellectual thugs who hurl the same tautological arguments over and over. The nature of the Blogosphere, alas, rewards partisanship and "attitude" over fairness and substance, so it's so heartening to see a voice of reason like yourself getting recognition. This is so well deserved. Your blog’s combination of quality writing, intellectual substance and courage makes it so precious and deserving of wide attention.

Speaking truth to power is always a lonely and frustrating slog, and it’s doubly so when you happen to be questioning sacred cows that are relentlessly whitewashed by the MSM. It’s also exhausting, as you must constantly contend with hordes of intellectual thugs who hurl the same tautological arguments over and over.

The nature of the Blogosphere, alas, rewards partisanship and “attitude” over fairness and substance, so it’s so heartening to see a voice of reason like yourself getting recognition.

]]> By: Leila A. http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/04/19/tikun-olam-in-the-media/#comment-15569 Leila A. Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:13:31 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/04/19/tikun-olam-in-the-media/#comment-15569 I am very proud of you, Richard. You have done well. This is what the blogosphere does the best - noodge the mainstream media to pay attention to stories the corporate headquarters don't want to touch. Thank you. I am very proud of you, Richard. You have done well. This is what the blogosphere does the best - noodge the mainstream media to pay attention to stories the corporate headquarters don’t want to touch.

Thank you.

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