The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: How Roger Cohen makes his case for equating anti-Z...

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: How Roger Cohen makes his case for equating anti-Z...: So Roger Cohen of the Times  begins by providing anecdotal evidence from one student (he thinks that just because the student is at Oxford...

*** OK,
here is my response as an anti-Zionist: 1) no, anti-Zionists don't deny
the historical bond between Jews and the holy land.  I would never also
deny the long Jewish presence in Palestine.  But I don't think that the
Jews who belonged to Palestine in 1917 and who  constituted less than
10% of the population and who owned less than 3% of the land of
Palestine deserved a homeland atop the existing Arab Palestine, or that
the aspirations of the 10% should disregard the aspirations of the 91%
of the population (the "existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine",
as they were outrageously referred to in the Balfour Declaration of
1917).  2) I also don't deny that there is a link between the murder of
Jews in Europe and the foundation of Israel, but don't think that it was
just to penalize the Palestinian national community for a crime that
they didn't commit.  It is not anti-Semitic to believe that the
establishment of a Jewish state should not take place at the expense of
the Palestinian Arab nation. That is not anti-Semitic, no matter what a
student at Oxford told Roger Cohen.***