{"id":372091,"date":"2018-08-04T13:58:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T12:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bizarro-zionism-zionists-call-human-rights-supporters-racist\/"},"modified":"2018-08-04T13:58:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T12:58:06","slug":"bizarro-zionism-zionists-call-human-rights-supporters-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bizarro-zionism-zionists-call-human-rights-supporters-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarro Zionism: Zionists Call Human Rights Supporters Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What to call someone who claims to oppose racism, except for that directed against Palestinians?<\/p>\n

Judge someone by what they have done and continue to do. Consider the source. These thoughts ran through my mind as I struggled to write about Bernie Farber\u2019s standing among some Left\/liberals.<\/p>\n

After Israel recently solidified its apartheid<\/a> regime, a Facebook friend posted an opinion by illustrious pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim titled<\/a> \u201cToday, I Am Ashamed to Be an Israeli.\u201d While expressing opposition to its recent entrenchment of Jewish supremacism, the story effectively denied the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by claiming, \u201cthe founding fathers of the State of Israel who signed the Declaration [of independence] considered the principle of equality as the bedrock of the society they were building.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than this sop to colonial history, my leftist Facebook friend\u2019s post piqued my ire because it highlighted that the article came from Farber, who worked at the now defunct Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) between 1984 and 2011. In response to my complaint about citing the former CJC CEO approvingly, Farber wrote, \u201cI will continue to work for mutual understanding and do my best to see all sides. You will of course see what you wish from your one-sided pedestal and be critical of anyone who remains a progressive Zionist which I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the \u201cpedestal\u201d on which I observe Farber, I see an individual who has repeatedly labelled supporters of…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What to call someone who claims to oppose racism, except for that directed against Palestinians? Judge someone by what they have done and continue to do. Consider the source. These thoughts ran through my mind as I struggled to write about Bernie Farber\u2019s standing among some Left\/liberals. After Israel recently solidified its apartheid regime, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}