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David Frum would like you to cease and desist with your criticisms of Israel - John Knefel - Making a Mockery - True/Slant

David Frum would like you to cease and desist with your criticisms of Israel - John Knefel - Making a Mockery - True/Slant: "For reasons that remain unclear to me, some people think David Frum is somebody whose opinion should be respected. His editorial mad-libs from today, implicitly titled Anti-Semites Everywhere! serves as a helpful primer on how to stifle dissent by accusing one’s detractors of bigotry. Let’s see how he does it!

It’s beneficial to begin with Frum’s conclusion — not the vagaries he puts forward as an “argument.” Here are his final two paragraphs in full:

It’s possible to hate Israel without hating Jews. It’s even possible to hate Jews without hating Israel, as is said of a famously nasty British media personality: “He managed the impressive feat of being intensely anti-Semitic without becoming even slightly pro-Arab.”

But these interesting theoretical potentialities exist mainly on the blackboard. In real life, it becomes very difficult to separate hatred of the Jewish state from hatred of the Jews who live in that state. [emphasis added.]

That’s really quite a conclusion to reach. So, “in real life,” that is in all non-theoretical (ie, real) cases, “hatred of the Jewish state,” that is, criticism of Isreal, is identical to “hatred of Jews who live in that state,” that is, anti-Semitism."

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