I am sorry that I cannot be 100% serious about Naomi Klein, with all due respect to her genealogy (coming as she does from a long line of pacifist Jooish folks), to her education (or, rather, the lack of it – it is difficult to reconcile what she says about herself on her site with the dry language of Wiki), to her books and other achievements that witness her popularity, if not her penetrating wisdom.
I am not going to argue the pointed remarks and speeches she makes re punishment of them Zionists, because David Hirsh has made mincemeat of her position with ease and elegance fitting a (real) scholar. So I would like to dedicate this post to the style rather than substance. Style is all important sometimes, you just have to agree.
David Hirsh (or Engage editor) has chosen to improve the visual side of his article by this double picture:
Thus, of course, reviving the imagery of “The Beauty and The Beast” (no offense intended, people, really – I mean it, but who can miss this angle?)
Now, to understand who is the Beauty and who is the Beast here, I want to offer some supporting evidence. Namely, Ms Klein’s latest and freshest on Israel:
After you’ve read the above, close your eyes and listen, just listen to the words in the headline. Do you hear the familiar shrill notes that Jews heard so many times in their history? Do you detect the histrionics? The passion to punish? Don’t you feel some words missing in that headline and clamoring to be added – to continue the list of punishments?
Don’t you feel the Beast?
P.S. I forgot to mention that Naomi Klein’s picture is the left one.
Cross-posted on SimplyJews.
I’m perplexed. Was she having her nails done, getting a brazillian or shopping a sale when common sense was being handed out by the Big Guy upstairs?
What I wouldn’t give for Mr. Peabody’s Way Back Machine to be up and running.
Naomi-Darling. We are going to send you on a little trip to Oswiecim circa 1944.
Maybe then you’ll stop this nonsense
People like Klein are too complacent. They do not imagine that their comfortable world could be destroyed by Yahoos from the desert. Let the Yahoos get nukes and you’ll be amazed at what damage they can do. Just listen to Ahmedinejad for a sample. Klein can no more imagine that her cozy world can come to an end than the people in 1939 could imagine the genocide to come. We know what happened then, and have no excuse for such complacency about threats to Jews or to decent civilization today.