On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Rodney Perkins wrote:
<begin quote from Muslimgauze interview>
quoted 6 lines Eskhatos: Do you have complete animosity toward the state of> Eskhatos: Do you have complete animosity toward the state of
> Israel and its people or would you exempt certain Israelis that you
> might consider good people?
>
> Muslimgauze: No, I wouldn't. No, I wouldn't talk to any of them, the whole
> people are disgusting so no, I wouldn't.
<end quote from interview>
quoted 2 lines I dunno but that statement seems like an endorsement of violence. In> I dunno but that statement seems like an endorsement of violence. In
> addition, its just a tad anti-Semitic.
Two nitpicks:
(1) In the (admittedly very few) interviews I've read with Bryn Jones of
Muslimgauze, he has never referred to the Jewish people as a whole, only
to the Israelis. There's a difference.
(2) Arabs and Jews are both Semites, so "anti-Semitic" is not an
appropriate term to use in reference to Jones and his politics.
Simply, then, Jones is not anti-Semitic, and he is not anti-Jew. He's
pro-Palestine and anti-Israel.
Of course, I'm not suggesting that it's OK for him to wish for the
destruction of the Israeli state and the people who call it home, but I
just thought it should be clarified.
Greg