Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

antisemitism is very inflated now. its thrown at anything and everybody including anti-zionist jews they’re now saying ‘free palestine’ is antisemitism and a call for genocide and the destruction of jews, then you have some who claim …

In reply to Michael P. Daniella Weiss–what a doll. If anything, she reminds me of Ayn Rand. The same imperious manner, the same delusional thinking, the same brutality concealed by sophistry and bad historiography. Instead of interviewing Weiss, …

In reply to Michael P. The pro-Palestinian side is repeating “genocide,” true. I think it’s incorrect, but it also seems excusable. The distinction between ethnic cleansing and genocide is hard to keep in mind when the stakes are as h…

to cement your points about the nuttiness of those people here is something similar https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-extreme-ambitions-of-west-bank-settlers LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. very interesting. I think this distinction is key but every pro-Palestinian side is repeating genocide instead. and we now know that the IDF’s incompetence and unpreparedness were partially responsible for the death of …

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Joshua Katz’s “response” to the preceding. https://www.city-journal.org/article/double-standards-at-princeton No comment for now. Enjoy the silence, as Depeche Mode once said. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I wanted to add one quick postscript to my last comment. I saw this piece by Omer Bartov in The New York Times on “genocide” that I basically agree with, or alternatively, that basically agrees with my last commen…