ReDiscover 9/11

Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative – and at times irreverent – quest to answer the question, “What is anti-Semitism today?” Does it remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics? Speaking with an array of people from across the political spectrum (including the head of the Anti-Defamation League and its fiercest critic, author Norman Finkelstein) and traveling to places like Auschwitz (alongside Israeli school kids) and Brooklyn (to explore reports of violence against Jews), Shamir discovers the realities of anti-Semitism today. His findings are shocking, enlightening and – surprisingly – often wryly funny.

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9/11’s a lie–WHO are the liars?

We are conditioned not to criticize our controllers. If we are afraid to tell the truth, we are enslaved already.
The Jewish mafia should be treated like the Italian mafia…jail the guilty and don’t generalize/prejudge a people for the criminals hiding amongst and behind them.

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Sholto Byrnes
New Statesman
28 May 2010

I was struck by a passage in Alexander Linklater’s review of Christopher Hitchens’s new autobiography, Hitch 22: a Memoir, in the new issue of Prospect. Linklater writes of Christopher’s reaction to his brother Peter’s discovery that their late mother had been Jewish:

He describes his irritation at an editor who had suggested that the discovery would make his life easier, “because Jewish people are allowed to criticise Israel”. Had it really come to this, he wonders, that who you are might either justify or undermine your arguments?

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