From Greg Clow Sent Tue, Feb 10th 1998, 19:07
From Greg Clow Sent Tue, Feb 10th 1998, 19:07
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Rodney Perkins wrote: <begin quote from Muslimgauze interview> > Eskhatos: Do you have complete animosity toward the state of > Israel and its people or would you exempt certain Israelis that you > might consider good people? > > Muslimgauze: No, I wouldn't. No, I wouldn't talk to any of them, the whole > people are disgusting so no, I wouldn't. <end quote from interview> > I dunno but that statement seems like an endorsement of violence. In > addition, its just a tad anti-Semitic. Two nitpicks: (1) In the (admittedly very few) interviews I've read with Bryn Jones of Muslimgauze, he has never referred to the Jewish people as a whole, only to the Israelis. There's a difference. (2) Arabs and Jews are both Semites, so "anti-Semitic" is not an appropriate term to use in reference to Jones and his politics. Simply, then, Jones is not anti-Semitic, and he is not anti-Jew. He's pro-Palestine and anti-Israel. Of course, I'm not suggesting that it's OK for him to wish for the destruction of the Israeli state and the people who call it home, but I just thought it should be clarified. Greg