Ideological Puritans Brand Critics of Israel

[zero_hero]

Scarlet 'A' Is for 'Anti-Semitism'
Ideological Puritans Brand Critics of Israel

Like Hester Prynne, the heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel “The Scarlet Letter” about the rigid and harsh religiosity of 17th century Puritans, many contemporary Jewish intellectuals are marked with the infamous letter ‘A’ (not for adultery as in the novel, but for anti-Semitism).

Peter Beinart, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Avi Shlaim, Shlomo Sand and more recently, myself share the dubious privilege of being viewed as anti-Semitic by members of their own ethnic and religious community. What have we done to deserve such ignoble epithet? Nothing more than exercise the right to think and to evaluate critically the accomplishments and failures of the state of Israel.



Read more: http://forward.com/articles/166068/scar ... z2DvFaanzo

[one of those jerks]

Richard A. Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights He just might be anitsemitc—
he posted this on his blog,
but he deleted it and appologized. So everthing;s ok
I do it all the time.

[myrna minkoff]

Alan Dershowitz criticized Richard Falk for endorsing the book,[The Wandering Who] and used numerous quotes from the book to support his position that the book is antisemitic because it "argues that Jews seek to control the world," that "Jews are evil and a menace to humanity,"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Falk