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Barrett Brown Gets the Collateral Smear

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recusancy4/08/2010 1:35:03 pm PDT

re: #5 Obdicut

As a Jew, I’m sick of having accusations of antisemitism thrown around this lightly. Even besides the point that the charge against Charles and Barrett is completely false, people seem to use “anti-Semite” as a general term of abuse.

Given that hard-right parties are arising in Europe right now, even though they’re pretending to be quite pro-Jewish, I don’t think we should be watering down the term right now.

It’s gotten to where any criticism of Israeli government policy is considered antisemitic.