Following my article in yesterday’s Crikey regarding the Zionist lobby, AIJAC functionary (and rug seller) Yosi Tal responds today:
Crikey’s use of self-appointed truth revealer Antony Loewenstein shows how low Crikey has sunk. It has now joined the hysterical baying of the loony left, attempting to strip the Jewish community of its democratic right to be heard and to lobby on the behalf of itself and the state of Israel. Loewenstein first burst onto the national journalism scene approximately three years ago when the Sydney Morning Herald ambushed Colin Rubenstein of AIJAC with an article by the until then unknown internet music journalist Loewenstein. With no serious academic qualifications or journalistic qualifications on this issue Loewenstein has been lauded by some as an expert on the Middle East and the Jewish community while ignoring the fact that he has a history of hatred and vilification of the Australian Jewish community and the Jewish state. The portrayal of the Jewish lobby as a dark and sinister cabal attempting to shut down debate is outright anti-Semitic and totally dishonest. The Australian Jewish community is a broad church with a wide variety of opinions articulated in a variety of communal forums and the Australian Jewish News. We are not afraid of debate and welcome it; inside our community and in the general community. If Crikey bothered to get off its a-se and research the issue then it would not be offering Loewenstein as an expert on this issue. If anything, Loewenstein is a publicity seeking, self-hating Jew who is prepared to go to any length and sacrifice any ethics or morals to demonise Israel and the Australian Jewish community. Shame Crikey, shame.
Perhaps Tal would also like to accuse me of being anti-Israel, anti-American and pro-terrorist. I eagerly await his next missive.
as we observe so regularly here,
the zionist golden rule of debate,
ad hominem, ad hominem, ad hominem
Anti-semitic and a self-hating jew. WOW Hyperbole and tautology. Miraculous. The silencers are compaining of being silenced! (Conveniently forgetting their attempts to prevent publication of Loewenstein’s book).
I wonder how they would define “debate” since their response to AL has been
to discredit, attack and shout down a proponent of one of the “wide varieties of opinion” they claim to embrace.
C’mon Yosi, tell us what you really think! Thanks for posting this Antony, it gave me one of the best laughs I’ve had all day (was he a rug seller or a drug seller?). Tal’s character assasination should also have mentioned something about you being “extreme left” and a “smouldering teen idol” too. Tal should also have a chat with Labor MP Michael Danby and remind him about the Jewish community’s commitment to debate. Tal seems to have disappeared right up his own a-se.
Jeez there can’t be much room left on the SS Loony Left can there? Could we all fit into the MCG? Unlikely, and less so with every passing day.
And just quietly, what apart from his alignment with the prevailing Zionist mindset, are Mr Tal’s qualifications to comment on the issue?
It’s somewhat hilarious that he is talking about the Jewish community being a broad church that should have a right to speak out, when he himself is (by the very posting of his article) trying to silence one of the members of the acclaimed ‘broad church’
“AIJAC functionary (and rug seller) Yosi Tal responds today:….”
Al , I have met many rug sellers and can’t agree this work should be used as some sort of denigration. This person shames rug sellers everywhere.
If you think mentioning this is a counterpoint to his criticism of you as having ” no serious academic qualifications or journalistic qualifications on this issue ” please don’t lower yourself.
What Smiths said .
Yosi Tal’s ravings are just waht we need to hear. More of it should be printed in MSM, becasue these guys are amazing at scoring own goals of the Jewish lobby.
The inconherence and emtional crap emanating from these pieces is surely strong evidence that these guys are under pressure.