From the Warped Mirror

The Warped Mirror is the blog of Petra Marquardt-Bigman, one of the good people, and a blog I regularly read, when I've the time to leaf through my personal blog-roll. The following entry is on the Free Gaza Movement, led by one Greta Berlin, who is also a co-founder of the group.

And, you might well ask, so what? We know all about groups like this, well-intentioned (at least in their own eyes), but nearly always not only misinformed but also anti-Zionist. The former is unforgivable, the latter regrettable. And we all know lots of groups like that: here in the UK, Jews for Justice for Palestinians; Independent Jewish Voices; Palestine Solidarity Committee, and on and on and...

This one, however, is just a tad different, according to Petra M-B: it's also anti-semitic (or at least Greta Berlin is, and the difference may be moot). Petra traces a number of links within the Movement's website that lead directly to antisemitic articles, images and even videos. Further links can be found on her tweet account. Although, since this has broken, there have been strenuous efforts by the FGM to disappear these embarrassments, digging into the depths of the net soon brings them back (that is, it gets difficult to deny - like the famous photo of the air-brushed Trotsky: copies of the original remain in existence.

Just one quote from her article, to whet your appetite: 'Here is some of Free Gaza’s recommended reading: From the “Occupied Palestine” blog that is supposedly devoted to “Blogging 4 Human Rights & Liberation of Palestine!” The post recommended by Free Gaza is entitled “A ‘Leaflet’ to the World about it’s own ‘forgotten’ Extermination Camp called Gaza.”' Read it for yourself here.

Petra also notes that Walter Russell Mead, an American academic who blogs at Via Meadia, which is part of an online US paper called The American Interest (which I don't read: enough already), has an article on this matter, very much to the point, as you'll see from the heading: Archbishop Tutu Please Apologize to the Jews. If only. I'm not all that fond of Mead myself, a bit too Republican for my taste, but each to his own, and he is pro-Israeli. 

By Brian Goldfarb.