Comparing Jews to Nazis? No problem, in the Guardian
 | By Miriam Shaviv August 18, 2009 |
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The Guardian has sunk to a new low, publishing a piece by Marxist psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek in which he accuses Israel of "ethnic cleansing"; justifies rocket fire from Gaza; says that calling Gaza "the greatest concentration camp in the world" comes "dangerously close to truth"; claims that Israel is slowly making the West Bank "Palestinian-frei"; and accuses Israel of obstructing peace "since 1949".
Oh yes, all this and so much more - all in one article!
For a good fisking of the article, see Honest Reporting here. But what I am interested in is the number of comments on the article which have been removed by the moderator, presumably because they cross some kind of boundary of good taste.
What exactly do you have to write in order to be censored when commenting on an article comparing Jews to Nazis?
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adl1
21 August, 2009 - 12:31
Unfortunately, most of what Zizek says is a realistic description. He is not stupid: he was careful not to make direct accusations on either ethnic cleansing or concentration camps, but of course he knows his allusions to those will offend, and that his words are provocative. On the other hand, Israeli government action is unforgiveable and I fear that one day many, maybe most, of the Jewish people will live to regret them deeply. It will not be a happy day. Unfortunately, Israeli government action and inaction has long since passed the frontier of acceptability in relation to occupied and annexed territories, and never ever has there been a single apology to my knowledge.