Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Gunter Grass and the mute left [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And/or that he felt it said things he didn't originally mean it to say. I admire anyone who can admit error.
But there's a limit to how many assumptions you can make about what someone else thinks. Obviously, Grass isn't an antisemite at all, or a Nazi...he's just someone who expressed criticism of the Netanyahu government's insane demands for missile strikes on Tehran. While he went to far, and realized it, with saying that the entire Iranian population would be annihilated, it does go without saying that there would be major, possibly massive loss of innocent civilian life. How is admitting that antisemitic? A lot of Israelis and a growing number of people in the Diaspora oppose Netanyahu on this push for missile strikes as well...why is it so important to you to equate ANY dissent from the demands for missile strikes with antisemitism, when you know perfectly well that it isn't?