[Imc-uk-features] please remove this anti-Semitic article

[Chris]

Hi

On Tue 30-Oct-2007 at 10:22:22AM +0000, startx wrote:
> 
> of course we DO hide content because of the writers.
> 
> the writer (Gilad Atzmon) seems to me to clearly anti-semitic 
> 
> therefore this article should be hidden asap.

There was a discussion about Gilad Atzmon earlier in the
year over this article:

- Purim Special: From Esther to AIPAC
  Gilad Atzmon [repost] 
  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/364419.html

The thread started here: 

  http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2007-March/thread.html#6457

On Wed 07-Mar-2007 at 01:14:58AM +0000, Andi wrote:
> 
> this is definitely not racist and the author takes some
> pain to make sure it isn't. i wouldn't hide it but i
> feel it's on the edge. 

On Wed 07-Mar-2007 at 11:57:52AM +0000, yossarian wrote:
> 
> I don't think it's racist, although it's certainly
> guaranteed to piss people off, which is fine. I was
> queasy about the following line:
> 
> "Though some may dispute the numbers (Shraga Elam), and
> others question the validity of memory (Ellis,
> Finkelstein), no one goes as far as revisionism, not a
> single Holocaust religion scholar dares engage in a
> dialogue with the so-called ‘deniers’ to discuss their
> vision of the events or any other revisionist
> scholarship."
> 
> Never having heard of this Gilad fellow before, I was
> waiting for some kind of endorsement of the
> "revisionist" view (which never appeared).  Basically
> it's a controversial article, which is somewhat on the
> edge but seemingly meant as a positive contribution. So,
> leave it showing, I'd say.
> 
> Yoss
> 
> ps I also have no problems with saxophonists writing in
> academic style.  We should hide all posts by Kenny G on
> general principle, though.

Chris

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