http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2005-02-23/debate-on-boycotting-academia-lse/ Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:04:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2005-02-23/debate-on-boycotting-academia-lse/#comment-36 Seymour Gordon Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:41:50 +0000 http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2005-02-23/debate-on-boycotting-academia-lse/#comment-36 Steven Rose normally draws the adoring Socialist Worker Party crowd, where he goes down well positioning himself as the Jew in a million who is fortunately not deluded by Zionism. His book 'Myths of Zionism', while making some good points amongst nonsense too, will never make the bestseller lists, or possibly even the worst seller lists. Mr Alderman is a total apologist for Israeli misdeeds and worse. So maybe these two are 'entertainment' when placed together for debate, but nobody with any amount of objectivity couple with average intelligence is going to pay a blind bid of notice to what either of them has to say. I wouldn't give their 'debate' any publicity at all, unless under the title of 'Battle of the Fringe Lunatics'. Steven Rose normally draws the adoring Socialist Worker Party crowd, where he goes down well positioning himself as the Jew in a million who is fortunately not deluded by Zionism. His book ‘Myths of Zionism’, while making some good points amongst nonsense too, will never make the bestseller lists, or possibly even the worst seller lists. Mr Alderman is a total
apologist for Israeli misdeeds and worse. So maybe these two are ‘entertainment’ when placed together for debate, but nobody with any amount of objectivity couple with average
intelligence is going to pay a blind bid of notice to what either of them has to say. I
wouldn’t give their ‘debate’ any publicity at all, unless under the title of ‘Battle of the Fringe Lunatics’.

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