At the suggestion of Ben Marshall, Im reposting this contribution to a thread of his (which started off as being about useful idiots in the media) as a status on my own wall. And then sodding off for a bit, so its a flagrant light-the-blue-touchpaper-and-retire gambit. This is about a business I have come to label (although I dont know if the phrase was coined previously in this context; it may well have been) fig-leafing. >The anti-Zionist Jew who comes to endorse anti-Semitic ideas and rhetoric is very much A Thing - an example of something Id call fig-leafing. Its a weird but commonplace psychological phenomenon by which members of a targeted identity profess agreement and sympathy with those who target or discriminate against them (see also, black US Republicans, ethnic minorities in UKIP or the EDL) and give those groups the opportunity to say, See - were not prejudiced. How can we be when the people were supposedly prejudiced against are with us? As if such people are entirely representative. >Its funny how being Jewish lends one authority when one agrees with such groups (Even this Jewish person agrees) but removes it when one does not (Well, you would say that, youre Jewish.) >[nb this is not to suggest that any Jewish person who has serious issues with Israel - and many do, me included - is fig-leafing. Fig-leafing is a distinct phenomenon which involves internalising and rationalising the prejudices against oneself. By far the most overt bit of Jew-baiting Ive seen in the national press was an article by the Jewish journalist Mira Bar Hillel in the Independent.]
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:30:31 +0000
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