Lerner vs. Dershowitz

Critical Mass

The link above leads to an interesting debate between two Jews, Lerner and Dershowitz, on whether or not someone is labeled as “anti-Semitic” if they simply dare to criticize Israel. Of course, the entire argument is extremely ridiculous. Dershowitz, in the tradition of the finest shyster lawyers, emphatically says that such never happens, while Lerner says that it happens to both Gentiles and Jews. President Jimmy Carter, a man who has done as much for Israel as any American president in history, was called anti-Semitic by many mainstream Jews simply for telling the irrefutable truth that Israeli-occupied territories are a form of Apartheid state in that the settlements which are built on the land stolen from the Palestinians are completely segregated, “Jews only” enclaves. Unfortunately, President Carter would not call Israel proper an Apartheid state even though it is thoroughly segregated in education, neighborhoods, apartment buildings, whole towns and villages. Dershowitz said that only the real “anti-Semites” like David Duke who criticize Israel are “anti-Semites.” Why is David Duke a real anti-Semite in the eyes of torture-advocate Dershowitz? Could it be that he is one of the few national figures in the United States who has the courage to expose the radical supremacism of Zionism and radical Judaism? Could it be that he is unafraid to identify and criticize the Jewish extremist Neocons who have led America into the catastrophe of the Iraq War, a war in which Americans are being killed or maimed by thousands for Israel–and only for Israel?