tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448657.post4789718877003435568..comments2023-09-30T08:07:26.165-04:00Comments on Mystical Politics: On the ContraryRebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17626228106192215280noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448657.post-2839510636917275972007-11-18T20:14:00.000-05:002007-11-18T20:14:00.000-05:00Dear Deane, Thank you for the kind words on my boo...Dear Deane, Thank you for the kind words on my book.<BR/><BR/>From what I can tell, it seems to me that McGowan began by getting involved in the cause of remembering the massacre at Deir Yassin (massacre of Palestinian Arabs during the 1948 war by members of the Irgun) and then in some fashion started to believe the Holocaust deniers, and then to champion them (like Zundel). It's a weird progression, in my opinion, because I don't see what the one thing has to do with the other.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17626228106192215280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448657.post-80555546523949094792007-11-01T02:55:00.000-04:002007-11-01T02:55:00.000-04:00Some of the recent Holocaust deniers seem to subsc...Some of the recent Holocaust deniers seem to subscribe to the 'enemy of my enemy is my friend' school of ethics. That is, being ethically opposed to the modern state of Israel, and recognising (rightly) on factual grounds that the Holocaust gets a good deal of (especially) U.S. sympathy for Israel, they take sides with the type of right-wing nutjobs that they wouldn't otherwise be seen dead with. I don't know if this is the case with Daniel McGowan at all, or if he merely tends towards the right-wing nutjob category himself, but it seems to be a creeping disease.<BR/><BR/>It is closely related to the prevalent tendency for arts reviewers to give positive reviews to crap work by politically left artists.<BR/><BR/>* * * * *<BR/><BR/>I read your 'Ritual Practices to Gain Power' last year, and greatly enjoyed its content and readability.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com