Re: What she has to say about Dreyfus is very interesting.
Camilla Send a noteboard - 06/06/2010 04:56:32 PM
I must admit, though I'm relatively familiar with the Dreyfus Affair, I didn't realize it had led to real violence and pogroms - she doesn't mention any casualties, which I hope means there weren't any, but even so. And I like her take on it, and the way she explains the various ways of looking at it, and the difficult position of the French Jews on the affair.
Unfortunately, she felt the need to throw in some comments on contemporary politics inbetween, and several of those I found cringeworthy, or at the very least simplistic and not worthy of the generally high-quality lecture. She would've done better to shut up about the US - the remark about the UK and how dangerous the "we can't reveal this evidence because of national security" thing is, that was good, but pretty much whenever she mentioned the US, it was silly. In the case of the Scott Brown comparison, I'd even say outrageous. I'm curious if somebody will comment on that in the Q&A (I read the written version of her speech rather than watching it, goes a lot faster that way).
Unfortunately, she felt the need to throw in some comments on contemporary politics inbetween, and several of those I found cringeworthy, or at the very least simplistic and not worthy of the generally high-quality lecture. She would've done better to shut up about the US - the remark about the UK and how dangerous the "we can't reveal this evidence because of national security" thing is, that was good, but pretty much whenever she mentioned the US, it was silly. In the case of the Scott Brown comparison, I'd even say outrageous. I'm curious if somebody will comment on that in the Q&A (I read the written version of her speech rather than watching it, goes a lot faster that way).
Yes, the Scott Brown bit was a bit of a stretch as far as analogies go, but I can see her point (that justice should not be different depending on whether you are part of one group or another).
The Q&A was less interesting than I had hoped for, unfortunately, and I could only get it to play 20 minutes, but it is worth seeing.
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Jacqueline Rose on the Dreyfus affair and related problems, in the LRB
06/06/2010 11:28:14 AM
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What she has to say about Dreyfus is very interesting.
06/06/2010 04:48:16 PM
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Re: What she has to say about Dreyfus is very interesting.
06/06/2010 04:56:32 PM
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*remains amused at the suggestion of the Dreyfus Affairs "pertinence" to "current" events*
06/06/2010 05:14:23 PM
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I agree in part and (strongly) disagree in part.
06/06/2010 05:40:26 PM
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"If it's an eternal struggle, how could there ever be a solution or a peace?"
06/06/2010 06:20:39 PM
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Purim may or may not refer to a historic event. Even if it does, Haman was not likely an Arab.
07/06/2010 12:00:05 AM
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I second your main point.
07/06/2010 12:09:42 AM
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I don't discount that there is Arab blood in many or even most "Arabs".
07/06/2010 12:18:32 AM
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The holiday is centuries old and real, regardless.
07/06/2010 12:28:59 AM
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You're still missing the major point here.
07/06/2010 12:44:08 AM
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That seems a rather limited view of history.
07/06/2010 01:10:11 AM
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I (coincidentally) stumbled across those infamous hadith passages about Jews the other day.
07/06/2010 09:41:39 AM
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So?
07/06/2010 10:50:49 PM
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are you claiming that people would pull some things out of holy text and ignore the rest?
08/06/2010 12:16:41 PM
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well, for me this just proves why we are not supposed to live among non-Jews
06/06/2010 11:39:45 PM
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couldn't get past the part where anyone who opposes Obama is a racist *NM*
08/06/2010 01:40:07 AM
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You hallucinated? *NM*
08/06/2010 08:39:37 AM
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No, that would've been one of the places where she should've shut up. *NM*
08/06/2010 08:58:11 AM
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No
08/06/2010 09:08:04 AM
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I think he's not talking about that bit, but about the very first paragraph.
08/06/2010 09:30:21 AM
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If there was more I didn't get far enough to hear it
08/06/2010 12:09:47 PM
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That's the problem with the speech - the large majority of what she had to say was worthwhile.
08/06/2010 01:15:39 PM
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