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2004-10-01 Britain
Blind Hatred, British Bigot Sounds Off
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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-10-01 9:46:10 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 A little bit OTT, if I may say. Croke's assertion that:

"The natural reaction of most educated Europeans to the information you provide is likely to be ’So it was she who guided those gunships..."

Is betrayed by: "...a motion was proposed at a conference of the Association of University Teachers, a leading union for university professors, calling for a total academic boycott against Israel. The motion failed but was supported by one-third of the delegates."

In other words, Only 1/3 of some of the most left-wing and passionately unionistic university lecturers backed a call to boycott Israel academically. About what you'd fear, perhaps, but hardly indicative that most university educators are rabidly anti-Semitic.

Wilkie should've been sacked from Oxford. His actions have massively discredited the University's reputation. Piers Croke should share the same fate. You can email Gisela Graham at: sales@giselagraham.co.uk. Website here.
Posted by Bulldog  2004-10-01 12:25:48 PM||   2004-10-01 12:25:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Croke wrote a letter to the Guardian on Sept. 28, 2001 saying that the response to 9/11 smacked of "vengeance", which is so unfashionable, dahling.

(Read the hand-wringing, pants-wetting Madeleine Bunting article he's agreeing with here. The pertinent stuff is five paragraphs from the end.)

I'm assuming that this is the same Piers Croke, on the theory that there can't be too many Piers Crokes living in London.

His company also offers Christmas decorations in the "Bridget Jones" look for those who find that old-fashioned green and red just too, too jarring against their sophisticated, understated decor.

However, he's not above justifying the deaths of tiny, helpless children if it will allow his company to wring a few more miserable pence from their soon-to-be-bereft parents:

It is impossible to try and anticipate what children might or might not do with a product and it is clearly impossible to ban everything that might be dangerous. We need a commonsense approach to toy safety.

Common sense?? But what of those poor individuals who completely lack any common sense, hmmm? Wouldn't a truly caring person care about them, too? Think of the children!
Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-10-01 1:01:04 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]  2004-10-01 1:01:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 What % of Britons share this reptile's views? How many do so quietly?

Attitudes toward the middle east, not religion or the death penalty or global warming, are what divide the US and Europe today.

This is a difference that can't be split. It may well be the death of NATO.
Posted by lex 2004-10-01 1:15:21 PM||   2004-10-01 1:15:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 What % of Britons share this reptile's views? How many do so quietly?

Got anything to back up your insulting insinuation that a large percentage of Britons are anti-Semitic? Presumably these are the same 'majority of Britons who despise Ariel Sharon' you claimed to be aware of earlier.
Posted by Bulldog 2004-10-01 2:34:30 PM||   2004-10-01 2:34:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Got anything to back up your insulting insinuation that a large percentage of Britons are anti-Semitic?

Just my experiences at London dinner parties and the experience of yamulke-wearing jewish friends who, while at Oxford, were invariably sneered at and made the subject of snide jokes by the polite classes of that university town.

Perhaps my and my friends' experiences are not indicative; I hope not. Which is why I asked for some hard evidence.
Posted by lex 2004-10-01 2:49:36 PM||   2004-10-01 2:49:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Bulldog, have a look at the British govt., which presumably represents the majority of Britons, and see if you can find one member of said govt. (Tony Blair aside) who is not rabidly hostile to Israel. "Yes," the old argument goes, "but that is not necessarily anti-Semitic."

OK, so why then does the JEWISH STATE warrant such disproportionate criticism? Why not direct criticism towards deserving nations such as Iran, Syria, Egypt, Saudia Arabia?

Well, um, er......
Posted by Bryan 2004-10-01 7:14:24 PM||   2004-10-01 7:14:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Good dhimmi. Good boy. Fetch.
Posted by Anonymous6092 2004-10-01 9:00:37 PM||   2004-10-01 9:00:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Just my experiences at London dinner parties and the experience of yamulke-wearing jewish friends who, while at Oxford, were invariably sneered at and made the subject of snide jokes by the polite classes of that university town.

Invariably? Really? I doubt that. It's possible that they each had a complaint to make, but: they were invariably sneered upon - by everyone?! That's crap.

..see if you can find one member of said govt. (Tony Blair aside) who is not rabidly hostile to Israel.

The onus is on you to demosntrate the ridiculous proposition that they are all, besides Blair, "rabidly hostile to Israel". What shite.

Good dhimmi. Good boy. Fetch.

Care to elaborate, anonymous coward?
Posted by Bulldog 2004-10-01 10:33:17 PM||   2004-10-01 10:33:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Bulldog, check out the next televised meeting that Blair and the boys have - the ones where they fire questions at him on policy and he staunchly defends himself. Watch the jackals bay for blood when the subject of Israel comes up and watch Blair vainly trying to fend them off. It will be quite an education, I promise.
Posted by Bryan 2004-10-02 2:22:36 AM||   2004-10-02 2:22:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 BD - "invariably" was over the top. Point taken. But the incidents ai described were so frequent as to suggest an atmosphere that tolerated anti-jewish insults. Again, I hope you're right, but my experience inclines me toward pessimism.

Pretty telling that Britain's official news agency has been expelled from Israel for its blatant and outrageous anti-Israeli bias. I don't believe that the Beeb is a fringe organization, and think it safer to assume that more Beeb viewers than not consider the Beeb take on Israel to be close to the truth.

Posted by lex 2004-10-02 1:43:28 PM||   2004-10-02 1:43:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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