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• Tuesday, May 13, 2008 06:04 AM

  The editors removed my first response to robot

  That thread is a bit more high profile than this one, and what happened was, I said that this journalist, Dave Marash, had quit al Jazeera because he didn't want to be blacklisted by the neocons, and then the robot posted along the lines of '"neocons"? you mean "Jews"', and I posted right back at him making the fact that it was him making that jump not me really explicit, and that response of mine seems to have been removed.

  People get Pavlovian when they see the word "Jew" right in their faces, but as I say, I was just playing his own slur back at him. Then finally I said, just look at my dozens of posts on Glenn Greenwald's threads, or look at my blog, and if you can find anything anti-Semitic anywhere on weither of them, I shall be fascinated to hear about it, and that made him climb down.

  All this still leaves it open for him to say that I am "obsessed by Jews" if he wants to. I don't deny it. I am like that girl Shelhevet, who posted a comment to one of Johann Hari's articles about Israel at The Independent website, saying that being an Israeli was like being the child of abusive parents, except that in my case I am not even an Israeli, so it's more like being the disowned child of parents who are abusive to the children they have kept.

  —Rowan Berkeley Read Rowan Berkeley's other letters
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