{"id":2089,"date":"2002-10-10T06:58:44","date_gmt":"2002-10-10T13:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2002\/10\/10\/anti-semitism-redux-redux-er-redux\/"},"modified":"2002-10-10T06:58:44","modified_gmt":"2002-10-10T13:58:44","slug":"anti-semitism-redux-redux-er-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2089","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Semitism redux, redux. Er, redux."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.pitas.com\/halcombe\/02_10_2002.html\">The Lincoln Plawg<\/a> has a good piece dissecting Larry Summers&#8217; famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.president.harvard.edu\/speeches\/2002\/morningprayers.html\">speech <\/a>(as regular readers know, this is a subject I&#8217;ve commented on a time or three myself). Here&#8217;s a sample from the Lincoln Plawg:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">There are two main objections to this:<\/p>\n<p>    First, the core meaning of antisemitism is surely &#8216;hostility to Jews&#8217; &#8211; how can hostility exist without intention?<\/p>\n<p>    Second, if being anti-Israeli is defined as antisemitism, how can one ever oppose Israeli policy without being antisemitic?<\/p>\n<p>    If the motives of those proposing the divestment, say, were antisemitic, why have they not proposed similar divestment from US or European firms with significant Jewish ownership?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little bit close to &#8220;fisking&#8221; for my taste, but it&#8217;s nonetheless a nicely-done examination of a bad idea. <a href=\"http:\/\/web.pitas.com\/halcombe\/02_10_2002.html\">Check it out<\/a>.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=floxin-cost-no-insurance\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lincoln Plawg has a good piece dissecting Larry Summers&#8217; famous speech (as regular readers know, this is a subject I&#8217;ve commented on a time or three myself). Here&#8217;s a sample from the Lincoln Plawg: There are two main objections &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2089\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-semitism","category-palestine-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}