07-08-2014, 11:22 PM
http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/discours...uding.html
Although less deadly, this war of words offers a telling look into ongoing intellectual shifts in the Israeli and Zionist mainstream, revealing what experts argue is an increasingly violently racist and sexist Zionist worldview.
Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and a former member of the PLO negotiating team, told Ma'an that in the weeks since the Israeli assault began she has received a deluge of hundreds of hateful emails and violent threats. Although she is accustomed to hate mail, she said that the tone and quantity is "unprecedented."
"In the past I used to get messages calling me crazy or out of my mind, but now they're telling me things like kill all Muslim scum,' along with organized groups of Israelis who regularly send me emails swearing at me."
She said that every single one of the hundreds of emails she has gotten in the last few days have used either racist or sexist language including rape threats and a total of 0 expressed polite disagreement or substantive arguments.
Although less deadly, this war of words offers a telling look into ongoing intellectual shifts in the Israeli and Zionist mainstream, revealing what experts argue is an increasingly violently racist and sexist Zionist worldview.
Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and a former member of the PLO negotiating team, told Ma'an that in the weeks since the Israeli assault began she has received a deluge of hundreds of hateful emails and violent threats. Although she is accustomed to hate mail, she said that the tone and quantity is "unprecedented."
"In the past I used to get messages calling me crazy or out of my mind, but now they're telling me things like kill all Muslim scum,' along with organized groups of Israelis who regularly send me emails swearing at me."
She said that every single one of the hundreds of emails she has gotten in the last few days have used either racist or sexist language including rape threats and a total of 0 expressed polite disagreement or substantive arguments.