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Monday, October 8, 2007 12:00 AM

The ADL purports to respond again

Abraham Foxman sends a letter which, once again, raises more questions than it answers.

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  • Monday, October 8, 2007 01:45 PM

    I would like to know why a group supposedly concerned about...

    nazi rhetoric and institutional memory feels it is proper to promote fear mongering WRT Iran. In the end, isn't antisemitism another form of fear mongering WRT "the other"? Isn't all stereotyping and fear mongering unfair? Maybe it is impossible for people to act unbiased when one thinks of a country as an enemy, but one hopes an honest person will reflect and consider whether they are guilty of the same bias of which they accuse others. Isn't this the definition of intellectual honesty? Be the bias against a people, a country, or political ideology, it is still bias. It seems pretty clear by now that the wingers can do no wrong on this nazi rhetoric issue - at least WRT the ADL.

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