Who’s the Orientalist?

The extent of some people’s arrogance, ignorance and shamelessness can indeed be revolting sometimes. That’s what I thought when I read the recent Badger article entitled ‘Balance it out!’. I would like to think that its author is simply naïve; only on that basis would I be prepared to excuse the things that were so erroneously alleged in that article.
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Anti-war, not anti-Semitic

It is refreshing to see, in last week’s leading article, a report on the Sussex Occupation in which the writer has taken the time to talk to the occupiers and ask them why they are there.

The large-scale protest has been met with some alarmingly mis-informed articles in this fine paper, including some which spark the claim that because the occupiers heard from Azzam Tamimi, who is pro-Hamas, everyone in the room must also be pro-Hamas and pro-terrorism. Last week’s comment piece, ‘Freedom fighters or terrorists?’, suggested that the Palestine Society, in defending the right of Dr Tamimi to speak, was endorsing ‘a message of hatred’, which included not only pro-terrorism but also anti-Semitism.
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