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Global Agenda is an open forum of ideas, meant to foster debate. It has no ideological bent. This issue, for example, has articles from Paul Wolfowitz, Michael Ledeen and Steve Forbes (not to mention Anjelina Jolie).

This particular article is certainly anti-Zionist and anti-Israel, but to call it “anti-Semitic hate speech,” as your correspondent does, is ridiculous, especially when very real examples of such exist. The writer is a Palestinian with an obvious ajenda and a two ton axe to grind. But he’s no Stormfronter.

The way to battle the historical distortions on display in the article is to confront the public with facts and not shriek “anti-Semite” at the drop of a hat as though one were the blogosphere’s equivalent of Seinfeld’s uncle Leo.

This is the New New Left – calling someone antisemitic is worse than actually *being* antisemitic. Even the NY Times (no friend of Israel) ran an article the other day about a Hamas leader who likes to call himself “Hitler”.

Apparently in vino only delusion, not veritas.

The chairman of the WEF has apologized for this. More on this on my blog:

But In Vino said it wasn’t anti-Semtism. The chairman of the WEF must have made a “mistake>”

What mistake? By apologizing?

Per Bloomberg News, the author of this little love note to Israel, Mazin Qumsiyeh, “has served on the faculties of Yale University in New Haven, CT, and Duke University in Durham, NC.”

Knowing the state of the academy, I assume the two schools are fighting to see who can grant Mr. Qumsiyeh tenure first.

Sisyphos, I was being sarcastic. In Vino Veritas is a reactionary par excellence and I was simply making fun of him. Anyone who doesn’t think that excerpt was filled with standard anti-Semitic tropes is either a liar or can’t read. I don’t which IN Vino is and, frankly, I don’t care.

Well, that corresponds at least to the feedback I partly receive so far to my (I admit it) provocative post-title: Many people tend to think that since it is a State which is targeted and not directly individual buinessmakers, it could not be called antisemitism, but only legitimate criticsim of a foreign country… I don’t agree since all those calls for boycotts are always guided by very obvious motives. Dershowitz was right in saying that Israel is the Jew among the nations. Arguing this hypocrite way and letting Israel appear as if it was the worst imaginable nation around and of course responsible for all the problems in that region (what – in the WORLD!) – THAT is antisemitism. The author of the text of course didn’t forget to re-write history as well. It appears to me as if some typical Arab propaganda had been directly distributed in Switzerland… The only thing missing was a caricature picturing a baby devouring Sharon…

Don’t forget last year at Davos, Gaddafi Jr almost tripped himself up saying the Holocaust was a myth, then corrected himself, saying that it was incorrect to deny the Holocaust because the Soviets liberated Auschwitz & therefore the world knew of these horrors from a reliable source, “not from the Zionists, not from the New York Times.” In the Arab world, this passes for enlightenment