Edward Said was the man most responsible for making anti-Semitism acceptable among the intellectual elite. NY Sun:

A Columbia University professor who has called Israel a "racist" state with an "apartheid system," and who has supported attacks by Palestinian-Arabs on Israelis, is scheduled to lecture a group of New York City public school teachers on how to teach Mideast politics to schoolchildren.

The professor, Rashid Khalidi, is director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University. His professorship is named in memory of Edward Said, a divisive scholar, and is paid for in part with a donation from the United Arab Emirates. ht:Robert Spencer

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1 And how many of Said's books have you read to come to such a great understanding of his works Israel racist against Arabs? An apartheid state? You don't say. Truth hurts, I guess.

Posted by: Planet B at February 15, 2005 01:11 PM (YCicn)

2 To say that Said was an antisemite is shocking. The man was a Palestinian patriot and forthrightly critical of many Israeli policies. I knew him and never once did he evidence a bigoted attitude about any people. He had no negative attitudes about Jews.

Posted by: Dick Mulliken at February 15, 2005 01:22 PM (XshjE)

3 Said was an anti-Semite? What a delusion on your part. And exactly which books of Said's did you actually read? To say he was an anti-Semite leads me to correctly estimate that you've read nothing. Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitism. Ask the men and women in Israel that criticize their government regularly. You might learn something. Oh, and read a Said book. You won't look like an ass then...

Posted by: sean at February 15, 2005 11:08 PM (n/8xe)

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