Comments on: ZOA: Anatomy of a Smear http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/05/zoa-anatomy-of-a-smear/ Essays on politics, culture and ideas about Israeli-Arab peace and world music Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:52:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joachim Martillo http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/05/zoa-anatomy-of-a-smear/comment-page-1/#comment-46757 Joachim Martillo Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:50:49 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/05/zoa-anatomy-of-a-smear/#comment-46757 I am impressed by how long IMRA (2002), the ZOA (2002), FPM (2003), the NCLCI (2004), Powerline Blog (2006), and the DP (2007) worked to move the slur from the ethnic and sectarian blogosphere to main stream news sources. I have seen the phenomenon of citation rings or chains to turn factoids into facts, but how was this slur kept alive? Was the ZOA regularly circulating talking points about Tutu? Every few months I receive a letter from the International Hillel society, and it contains the same set of lies about Huwaida Arraf, Mahdi Bray and Hatem Bazian. Such letters seem to be meant to indoctrinate American Jews so that they would respond reflexively to a query like the one from the University of St. Thomas. I am impressed by how long IMRA (2002), the ZOA (2002), FPM (2003), the NCLCI (2004), Powerline Blog (2006), and the DP (2007) worked to move the slur from the ethnic and sectarian blogosphere to main stream news sources.

I have seen the phenomenon of citation rings or chains to turn factoids into facts, but how was this slur kept alive? Was the ZOA regularly circulating talking points about Tutu?

Every few months I receive a letter from the International Hillel society, and it contains the same set of lies about Huwaida Arraf, Mahdi Bray and Hatem Bazian.

Such letters seem to be meant to indoctrinate American Jews so that they would respond reflexively to a query like the one from the University of St. Thomas.

]]> By: and then the swift boats came for tutu « ex-lion tamer http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/05/zoa-anatomy-of-a-smear/comment-page-1/#comment-46668 and then the swift boats came for tutu « ex-lion tamer Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:33:46 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/05/zoa-anatomy-of-a-smear/#comment-46668 [...] 5th, 2007 · No Comments richard silverstein’s all over that BS. First, it’s simply not possible that Haaretz could’ve “quoted” Tutu saying [...] [...] 5th, 2007 · No Comments richard silverstein’s all over that BS. First, it’s simply not possible that Haaretz could’ve “quoted” Tutu saying [...]

]]> By: MuzzleWatch » Tutu: Anatomy of a smear, the appalling double-standards of the thought police http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/05/zoa-anatomy-of-a-smear/comment-page-1/#comment-46651 MuzzleWatch » Tutu: Anatomy of a smear, the appalling double-standards of the thought police Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:59:32 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/05/zoa-anatomy-of-a-smear/#comment-46651 [...] I was finishing this, I also got an email alert on an article of the same name by Richard Silverstein at Tikun Olam, about the same story. Let’s hope others pick this up [...] [...] I was finishing this, I also got an email alert on an article of the same name by Richard Silverstein at Tikun Olam, about the same story. Let’s hope others pick this up [...]

]]> By: Joachim Martillo http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/05/zoa-anatomy-of-a-smear/comment-page-1/#comment-46644 Joachim Martillo Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:02:54 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/05/zoa-anatomy-of-a-smear/#comment-46644 BTW, I believe that Tutu was implicitly comparing the powerful of the Apartheid government with that of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin. He was trying to argue that in the end the power of the Jewish lobby would not make much difference. He brought up the Apartheid government specifically because it was not appropriate to compare the Jewish lobby directly with Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, or Idi Amin. Tutu’s approach to the comparison was correct, for the Jewish (or Israel) lobby is most appropriately compared and contrasted with the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church. BTW, I believe that Tutu was implicitly comparing the powerful of the Apartheid government with that of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin.

He was trying to argue that in the end the power of the Jewish lobby would not make much difference. He brought up the Apartheid government specifically because it was not appropriate to compare the Jewish lobby directly with Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, or Idi Amin.

Tutu’s approach to the comparison was correct, for the Jewish (or Israel) lobby is most appropriately compared and contrasted with the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church.

]]> By: Joachim Martillo http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/05/zoa-anatomy-of-a-smear/comment-page-1/#comment-46642 Joachim Martillo Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:49:16 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/05/zoa-anatomy-of-a-smear/#comment-46642 Here is the url for the April 29, 2002 Tutu article: http://www.kokhavivpublications.com/2002/israel/04/0204290916.html . Please read it. You will be amused. Here is the url for the April 29, 2002 Tutu article: http://www.kokhavivpublications.com/2002/israel/04/0204290916.html .

Please read it. You will be amused.

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