tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post5687472839701821908..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: Shopping listPhoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-71700669173857829142011-08-13T09:51:58.571-04:002011-08-13T09:51:58.571-04:00rshams,
No doubt, but PG was asking specifically ...rshams,<br /><br />No doubt, but PG was asking specifically how NYT-reading (i.e. probably American) anti-Semites would respond to that particular article, which is about strife in Israel re: their wealth gap. Some truly clever commenters find a way to make this the fault of rich American Jews, but for the most part, the response of that contingent is to say, Israel was never a land of equality, because its existence is fundamentally unjust.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-61499314999629901002011-08-12T13:16:01.156-04:002011-08-12T13:16:01.156-04:00Oh, and a good one that doesn't shy away from ...Oh, and a <a href="http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/world/middleeast/12israel.html?permid=84#comment84" rel="nofollow">good one</a> that doesn't shy away from the definite article.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-29668572163657223902011-08-12T13:12:18.500-04:002011-08-12T13:12:18.500-04:00Here's one. There are others.<a href="http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/world/middleeast/12israel.html?permid=50#comment50" rel="nofollow">Here's one</a>. There are others.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-20899684793609527812011-08-12T09:32:32.574-04:002011-08-12T09:32:32.574-04:00PG,
Guess we'll have to see where the comment...PG,<br /><br />Guess we'll have to see where the comments go, but I suspect this is the bit that will hold their attention:<br /><br />"They point to things like a swollen defense budget, subsidies for the ultra-Orthodox and the cost of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where the Interior Ministry said Thursday that it would build 1,600 units and announced plans for 2,700 more."<br /><br />There's a contingent that responds to every article about Israel - political or not - by complaining that it wasn't entirely (or at all) devoted to the plight of the Palestinians, and to Israel's 110% responsibility for that plight. My guess is, that's the angle those readers will take. <br /><br />It's certainly not going to be sympathy with Jewish Israeli protestors, who don't come across as poor, exactly, in the article (a 25-year-old Facebook-using filmmaker?). I mean, some will express sympathy, but anti-Semites, no. They might, however, respond along the lines of, these few rich Israelis control not just Israel but also <i>America</i>.<br /><br />All that said, I generally try not to talk about that-which-could-potentially-inspire-anti-Semitism, because this gets read as hysterical. That said, I'll check on those comments later, so we'll see.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.com