Nasrallah said what?
ejh said,
"Right, on not speaking up. As seasoned observers know, I have a certain distaste for the politics of conversion, by which people join organisations for millenarian reasons, then abruptly reverse direction and spend the rest of their lives denouncing their former comrades, organisations and politics in what is often quite an obsessive manner."*
I was reading through
Nikolas Kozloff - Syria and the moral decline of the American Left** when I came across this passage:
"The Left has never really come to terms with the thorny issue of anti-Semitism, and refuses to call out either Ahmadinejad or Hezbollah's Hasan Nasrallah (who once charmingly remarked that "Jews invented the legend of the Holocaust") for their awful record on this score."
Because sometimes its just a lie.
I was going to spell out the problem in detail, but my brother does it succinctly above.
The Kozloff piece may be good to some in pointing out the villainies of some on the Left, but the way Kozloff ties it together is undermined by such falsities.
[I realise the quote taken down below is not be the same one alleged in the article]
"Right, on not speaking up. As seasoned observers know, I have a certain distaste for the politics of conversion, by which people join organisations for millenarian reasons, then abruptly reverse direction and spend the rest of their lives denouncing their former comrades, organisations and politics in what is often quite an obsessive manner."*
I was reading through
Nikolas Kozloff - Syria and the moral decline of the American Left** when I came across this passage:
"The Left has never really come to terms with the thorny issue of anti-Semitism, and refuses to call out either Ahmadinejad or Hezbollah's Hasan Nasrallah (who once charmingly remarked that "Jews invented the legend of the Holocaust") for their awful record on this score."
Because sometimes its just a lie.
I was going to spell out the problem in detail, but my brother does it succinctly above.
The Kozloff piece may be good to some in pointing out the villainies of some on the Left, but the way Kozloff ties it together is undermined by such falsities.
[I realise the quote taken down below is not be the same one alleged in the article]
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