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Entry: Gaza: A Prison Riot Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/gaza_a_prison_riot#1818 Post contents: Matt, you gave yourself away. Charging “anti-Semitism!” is the last redoubt when rational argument fails. It’s “illogical smear-talk,” to quote you. It was designed with malice aforethought to be used as an Ideational Weapon (the ultimate sin) to cast social opprobrium on the accused, and to immunize the accuser from criticism. My response to the last person calling me an anti-Semite: “I’m not easily flattered, old boy!” On another occasion, after being accused of same by a non-Jew, I looked the respondent in the eye, and said: “You’re a trained monkey! Can I get you a banana?” Bravo! to “edgarh’s” comment: “Anti-Semitism is a Jewish industry to draw attention away from rational responses to Jewish actions against others.” When this “Ideational Weapon” is hurled at us, we should burst out in convulsions of laughter. Sent at: 2008 07 20