09-08-2011, 09:02 PM
Hello Jim,
Regarding Werner Cohn: "...enthusiastically and uncritically" you say is my use of his quotes in a previous response. Granted I could have used another source; when describing the anti-Semitism/anti-Zionism of the New Left. So, I used Cohn. What if I used any other writer, who had the same critique? This should not diminish the point I was making in that response; as it pertains to the new anti-Semitism under the guise of anti-Zionism. As far as Cohn's position on the Gypsies: I do not think he views them as a non-ethnic people; who are only defined by geographic boundries. He does think that the Rom have lived in Europe for centuries. But this does not mean that they are not an ethnic people. Linguistic evidence in all gypsy dialects shows Indic origin. However, the Rom language also shows traces of of Persian, Kurdish and Armenian and Greek. All that aside, my use of Cohn as a reference-in describing anti-Zionism-apparently negates everything that I have said here. Is this so? Or is it something else?
Regarding Werner Cohn: "...enthusiastically and uncritically" you say is my use of his quotes in a previous response. Granted I could have used another source; when describing the anti-Semitism/anti-Zionism of the New Left. So, I used Cohn. What if I used any other writer, who had the same critique? This should not diminish the point I was making in that response; as it pertains to the new anti-Semitism under the guise of anti-Zionism. As far as Cohn's position on the Gypsies: I do not think he views them as a non-ethnic people; who are only defined by geographic boundries. He does think that the Rom have lived in Europe for centuries. But this does not mean that they are not an ethnic people. Linguistic evidence in all gypsy dialects shows Indic origin. However, the Rom language also shows traces of of Persian, Kurdish and Armenian and Greek. All that aside, my use of Cohn as a reference-in describing anti-Zionism-apparently negates everything that I have said here. Is this so? Or is it something else?