Self-Determination: Jews Need Not Apply

March 11, 2013 11:48 by

Over at the NY Times Opinionator blog, Professor Joseph Levine’s dense, 2,052-word pronunciamento tries to explain why it not anti-Semitic to question Israel’s right to exist.

Levine’s kind enough to “grant” that the Jews are a people, maintains that self-determination ain’t all it’s cracked up to be (Palestinians take note), then concludes that “the very idea of a Jewish state is undemocratic.”

Hillel Neuer debunked the philosophy professor with a key snippet just 32 words long:

Levine takes it as a given that the Palestinian Arabs have a natural claim to the same right of self-determination that he is so quick to deny to Israel and Jewish people.

Although Levine is Jewish, his view happens to be at odds with the US State Department and European Union definitions of anti-Semitism.

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  1. Ken Kelso

    3:29 am

    Mar 16, 2013

    Levine was chosen to write the op ed cause he wants the elimination of Israel.
    Thats usually who the NY Times wants as their writers.
    You know 22 countries isn’t enough for the Arabs and the Times.
    Check out how small Israel is compared to the Arab world.
    http://www.iris.org.il/sizemaps/arabwrld.htm

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  2. Ken Kelso

    3:33 am

    Mar 16, 2013

    A few days after Levine wrote his anti Israel Op Ed, the Times had Rashid Khalidi write an OP Ed in the Times. This is the same Khalidi who praised the founder of Black September. This is the terrorist group behind the Munich massacre and the murder of U.S diplomats in Sudan in 73.
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446187,00.html#ixzz2NQEv0R49

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  3. Ken Kelso

    3:35 am

    Mar 16, 2013

    Rashid Khalidi 2 years ago said the Leon Uris Exodus novel about the founding of Israel was a book of fiction.

    This great article rebukes the lies of Khalidi
    Why is the NY Times having a liar and pro terrorist in their Op Ed pages?

    http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/10/difference-between-real-historian-and.html
    October 11, 2011
    The difference between a real historian and Rashid Khalidi

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  4. Ken Kelso

    3:45 am

    Mar 16, 2013

    2 years ago Thomas Friedman wrote the reason Netanyahu received a standing ovation from US Congress was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

    I’m amazed that hate mongers and liars like Friedman are allowed to publish in the TImes.
    A good article about this.
    http://frontpagemag.com/2011/dennis-prager/why-thomas-friedman-abetted-anti-semitism/

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