I continue to be fascinated by the degree to which Richard Goldstone has become the litmus test for "anti-semitism." The latest chapter consists of a report in the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot "scooping" Goldstone's sentencing of blacks to death sentences as a judge under apartheid. While Israeli officials (and Alan Dershowizt compare goldstone to Mengele and other Nazi Germans, Goldstone states he struggled whether to be a judge under apartheid. The cases involved were not "political" but blacks were more likely to receive death penalties in apartheid South Africa. Significant ANC members including Nelson Mandela have consistently praised Goldstone's for his courageous actions to aid black South Africans during the time he served on as a judge.
This latest outcry neglects to talk about important decisions Goldstone issued to limit the power of apartheid, nor do they mention the Israeli Govt's filling the role as chief supplier of arms to apartheid South Africa.
History with a grudge!
If it weren't serious I would think this was funny....A high school student has begun a facebook protest against a quotefrom Palestinian, Edward Said, used as subject of an SAT uestion on the SAT. Here's the quote: " Exile is strangely compeling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and its native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never by surmounted." Apparently because Said is identified as Palestinian, the quote is connoted to apply only to Palestinians???? How about to Sephardic jews kicked out of Spain?
When will Jews give up the victim competition, and decide to make it in this world on their own merits?
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