This is a hopeless piece of coverage and I’m surprised. It is amazing how such a clear and brave statement has been so widely misinterpreted… he was clearly refuting the hijacking of his Jewishness by the occupation which is killing so many people in Israel and Gaza… that ‘s clearly a reference to the current aggressive, genocidal and apartheid tendencies which tragically characterise the current identity of Israel . In fact as Naomi Klein I think sez in the guardian today, his film is about people who continue to pursue their best life in spite of the terror and destruction that is being carried out in their name all around them. Please read this article in the London review of books and find some serious historical analysis of the hijacking of which Glazer speaks. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza
The New Statesman is fabulous ... always has been ... I have been a fan for the past 51 years that I have been a foreign correspondent (NYTimes, CBS, and beyond) ... now CNN columnist but especially SubStack's Andelman Unleashed ! You folks should (also) subscribe (free) to me! e.g.: https://daandelman.substack.com/
I wonder what Howard Jaconson's response will be if the ICJ rules that genocide has been committed in Gaza? Will he accept the ruling or will he do his usual trick of bringing in irrelevancies like blood libel and organ harvesting as he has done yet again in today's article?
Jacobson is willfully misunderstanding Glazer's comments. The Israeli government is not working in the interest of the diaspora or Israeli citizens, and they are the ones who have made comments comparing the war with the Holocaust.
I join him in not wanting my ethnicity hijacked to justify war crimes.
"….. just as they help emergency relief efforts in other countries only to harvest the organs of the dying, just as they selectively murder children because that’s what they’ve been doing for centuries…"
Re Glazer
This is a hopeless piece of coverage and I’m surprised. It is amazing how such a clear and brave statement has been so widely misinterpreted… he was clearly refuting the hijacking of his Jewishness by the occupation which is killing so many people in Israel and Gaza… that ‘s clearly a reference to the current aggressive, genocidal and apartheid tendencies which tragically characterise the current identity of Israel . In fact as Naomi Klein I think sez in the guardian today, his film is about people who continue to pursue their best life in spite of the terror and destruction that is being carried out in their name all around them. Please read this article in the London review of books and find some serious historical analysis of the hijacking of which Glazer speaks. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza
The New Statesman is fabulous ... always has been ... I have been a fan for the past 51 years that I have been a foreign correspondent (NYTimes, CBS, and beyond) ... now CNN columnist but especially SubStack's Andelman Unleashed ! You folks should (also) subscribe (free) to me! e.g.: https://daandelman.substack.com/
Always look forward to The Saturday Read
I wonder what Howard Jaconson's response will be if the ICJ rules that genocide has been committed in Gaza? Will he accept the ruling or will he do his usual trick of bringing in irrelevancies like blood libel and organ harvesting as he has done yet again in today's article?
Did you actually write this (the blood libel) straight, or with your tongue firmly in your cheek? PLEASE BE CLEAR. Or you do more harm than good.
Calling the blood libel irrelevant stopped me in my tracks. It's really shocking what's coming to the surface.
Jacobson is willfully misunderstanding Glazer's comments. The Israeli government is not working in the interest of the diaspora or Israeli citizens, and they are the ones who have made comments comparing the war with the Holocaust.
I join him in not wanting my ethnicity hijacked to justify war crimes.
"….. just as they help emergency relief efforts in other countries only to harvest the organs of the dying, just as they selectively murder children because that’s what they’ve been doing for centuries…"