Newspaper Reader offer a excerpts from Anthony Julius ‘T. S. Eliot , Anti-Semitism and literary form’ as an alternative to Noah Feldman’s ‘Second Front’?
March 6, 2024
@NoahRFeldman has opened the ‘Second Front’ in the Gaza Genocide! In defence of The Zionist Fascist State, by manufacturing an ‘Anti-Semitism crisis’ within American life and its politics. From his position ‘Professor at @Harvard_Law and as a columnist for Bloomberg @opinion and his ‘essay’ in Time magazine .
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The means Israel has used are subject to legitimate criticism for killing too many civilians as collateral damage. But Israel’s military campaign has been conducted pursuant to Israel’s interpretation of the international laws of war. There is no single, definitive international-law answer to the question of how much collateral damage renders a strike disproportionate to its concrete military objective. Israel’s approach resembles campaigns fought by the U.S. and its coalition partners in Iraq in Afghanistan, and by the international coalition in the battle against ISIS for control of Mosul. Even if the numbers of civilian deaths from the air seem to be higher, it is important to recognize that Israel is also confronting miles of tunnels intentionally connected to civilian facilities by Hamas.
To be clear: as a matter of human worth, a child who dies at the hands of a genocidal murderer is no different from one who dies as collateral damage in a lawful attack. The child is equally innocent, and the parents’ sorrow equally profound. As a matter of international law, however, the difference is decisive. During the Hamas attack, terrorists intentionally murdered children and raped women. Its charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. Yet the accusation of genocide is being made against Israel.
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Newspaper Reader
Further thoughts:
The mythical ‘West’ is sinking in the mire of Zionist Apologetics for Genocide, while the political awakening of the Global South, China, and BRICS ,which offers an alternative that other fading mythology of the ‘Post-War Liberal Order’ , and its cognates. Reader note that ‘the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has created a Council of Councils (CoC).’ as an expression of meta, as the beyond point of what has come before!
Headline: The BRICS Summit 2023: Seeking an Alternate World Order?
Mission Statement
The defining foreign policy challenges of the twenty-first century are global in nature. To help direct high-level international attention and effective policy responses to these threats and opportunities, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has created a Council of Councils (CoC). The CoC is composed of twenty-seven major policy institutes from some of the world’s most influential countries. It is designed to facilitate candid, not-for-attribution dialogue and consensus-building among influential opinion leaders from both established and emerging nations, with the ultimate purpose of injecting the conclusions of its deliberations into high-level foreign policy circles within members countries.
Can Anthony Julius’ critical approach to T.S. Eliot’s poetry, offer something totally missing from @NoahRFeldman’s propaganda?
From Anthony Julius’ ‘T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and literary form’ .
Page 306:
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Eliot’s Anti-Semitic poetry is both of a very high order and profoundly noxious. It is art speech and hate speech.
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Page 331:
I propose instead an adversarial stance. One that maintains one’s relation to the work. , but argues with it. This notion of adversarial reading is, if anything, self-defensive. It is not prosecutorial. It is a reading that acknowledges the offense to the reader. It does not suppress that offense, or wish it away. But nor does it reject the work. Indifference to the offense given these poems is a false interpretation. They insult Jews ,I argue. To ignore these insults e poems is to misread the poems. And if one is addressed as a Jew, isn’t it reasonable to responds as one?
N.R.
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