Israel and Anti-Semitism. posted by Richard Seymour

"Life isn't fair. You can quote me." Says Steve at Spike Magazine , so I have. It isn't fair in this case because once more a perfectly admissible opinion on Israel, by the proprietor of H.U.H.? has been rubbished as "anti-Semitism". "Boneheaded and semi-literate vulgarian antisemitism" at that, replicating the views of the British National Party, according to no less a figure than Oliver Kamm, (I don't know who he is, but he's apparently a hot fucking item in the blogging world).

H.U.H.? says :

" One of its many tragedies is that the Israelis have bought into, and are acting out, anti-semitic stereotypes. There really are Israeli settlers enriching themselves on land stolen from the Palestinians. There really are Israeli soldiers who may not be eating Christian babies, but they are shooting Muslim children...

...I’m agnostic about one-state or two-state solutions (obviously, I favour the no-state solution); but as someone who has always been proud of what Jewish heritage I have, if there is a Jewish state, I want it to live up to the best in Judaism, not embrace the worst that has been thought about Jews. So fuck you David Ben Gurion, and fuck you Ariel Sharon (both terrorists together). Fuck you Israel. Be better."

I'm not sure you'll ever hear the BNP advocate a "no-state solution" for any particular problem the world throws up. Nor would they discuss their pride in their Jewish heritage. And they probably wouldn't be calling for Israel to "Be better". I have, of course, challenged Oliver Kamm to excise some illustrative juicy titbits from the relevant BNP literature, but he has, sadly, thus far refused to answer.