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On 'fuck the Jewish state chant' Clive Saunders I thought hate was a crime. Or is it selected? Ned Ma Clive Saunders  they chanted the Jewsih state, not the Jews. You should know the difference since school. But you don't want to know. Clive Saunders Ned Ma  So you agree that Hamas murdering raping and kidnapping in October was OK. I think not. Ned Ma Clive Saunders  Who mentioned Hamas here? We are speaking about distorting a slogan. Stick to the point first then we can talk about Hamas. You are assuming I am a supporter of Hamas whereas my comment has nothing to do with that. I will see whether you are able to argue and refute arguments or not. I doubt it very much. We are on Facebook after all. Prove otherwise. Clive Saunders Ned Ma  I mentioned Hamas. Ned Ma Clive Saunders  What a very elaborate answer to your assumption! Really, Facebook has made people so lazy and so prejudiced and cannot write anymore. So, you cannot go back to the heart of the matter, ca...

Prophetic and timely Alain Badiou, June 1982 I don't much like to speak about the jewish question', as did Marx and Sartre, because the absolute atrocities the Nazis committed in the name of the 'final solution' have adversely rebounded on the very notion that there is a 'question' to which it would be appropriate to give a response. I might add that, on this issue, one ought to speak, absolutely, in one's own name, with one's own voice. As regards questions, I start from this: there are Jews. I do not ask why there are, nor where they come from, because such stories of origin and provenance are in themselves dubious. ‘Jews' is the name of our real, a glorious name of our history – especially of our philosophical, scientific, artistic and our revolutionary history. And I say this: Hitler proposed to eliminate Jews in their physicality. His will was completely criminal, including what of such a crime must remain hidden, clandestine. The Nazi administr...

Au lieu de a book In one sense, there is nothing extraordinary about this Zionist brutality. It is not, in its geo-political structure, very different from other imperialisms with which it shared during the 19th and 20th centuries. Of course Israel came to play a unique role in the world: its colon status on behalf of England and the United States marked a considerable aspect of its future course. But in its sense of entitlement to the land, resources and lives of another people, it merely replicated the horror of European and even American assumptions of superiority and secularized “divine right.” Crimes and state terror committed by the British and American imperialisms, the Zionist organisations, the ‘United Nations’ and the state of Israel

The main ideas in the rest of the article : Hazony founded the Edmund Burke Foundation in Washington to strengthen ‘the principles of national conservatism in Western and other democratic countries’. Hazony, writing just after [Meir] Kahane’s assassination in 1990, made clear that he never subscribed to his violent political views, but he did adopt Kahane’s neo-messianic brand of theology. Hazony helped edit Netanyahu’s  A Place Among the Nations,  the book which set out the future prime minister’s programme. Netanyahu asserts (in the Hebrew edition) that ‘the Israeli left may be suffering from a chronic disease that has affected the Jewish people for a century: the Marxism that impregnated the Jewish leftist, far-left and communist movements in Eastern Europe.’  An affliction that might explain why, after the June 1967 war, some leftwing Israelis wanted to give back the conquered territories. Hazony takes Asa Kasher, a philosopher at Tel Aviv University to task: ‘Kasher ...