Comments on: The true face of the boycott campaigners http://www.yourish.com/2007/05/27/3203 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Ed Hausman http://www.yourish.com/2007/05/27/3203/comment-page-1#comment-26507 Ed Hausman Sun, 27 May 2007 04:54:57 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/05/27/3203#comment-26507 <blockquote>Make certain that the speaker is asked what their stand is about the rights of Jews in Palestine, and whether or not they support the existence of a Jewish state of Israel, and whether or not they think all “resistance” is legitimate. </blockquote> Whenever I debate these issues on any open forum, I make a point early on of asking explicitly, and insisting on an unambiguous answer: "Do you support the continued existence of Israel as a Jewish state?" If they cannot agree even to this, I inform them I consider their stance to be that of a genocidal bigot, and the conversation ended.

Make certain that the speaker is asked what their stand is about the rights of Jews in Palestine, and whether or not they support the existence of a Jewish state of Israel, and whether or not they think all “resistance” is legitimate.

Whenever I debate these issues on any open forum, I make a point early on of asking explicitly, and insisting on an unambiguous answer: “Do you support the continued existence of Israel as a Jewish state?”

If they cannot agree even to this, I inform them I consider their stance to be that of a genocidal bigot, and the conversation ended.

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