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| Friday, May 09, 2003 |
Bickering Bloggers and Blokes
Jewish blogs are a good place for healthy discussion, and nothing proved that more than a cross-blog discussion of this past week. It began when mobius, of the Jewschool blog, opined that British politician Tam Dalyell was “sort of right” when he criticized a “Jewish cabal” that “unduly influenced” the UK’s Prime Minister Tony Blair. For good measure, mobius agreed with Pat Buchanan that “it is the charge of ‘anti-Semitism’ itself that is toxic.”
The got some other bloggers a bit miffed, prompting Avraham Bronstein to post to the Protocols blog in opposition to mobius. Joining him was Jewsweek staffer Bradford R. Pilcher, who posted to his blog Just Another Rant. Bronstein and Pilcher both took exception to mobius’ logic, going into some length as to why mobius had “gone off the deep end.”
So mobius replied to their replies, attempting to clarify his position and respond to their points. In true blog fashion, Bronstein quickly responded to mobius’ reply to Bronstein’s original response. In it, Bronstein broke down why mobius was wrong again. It didn’t take much longer for Pilcher to chime in with a full treatise on democratic society.
We’re fairly confident this discussion isn’t over yet, but it has settled one thing. Whether Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite or not, Jews sure do know how to argue.
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