"Anti-Zionism" and naivety

Frankly, my astonishment started when I laid my eyes on the headline:

Anti-Zionists must now hang their heads in shame over French Jewish school shooting

First of all, it is totally unclear why would the anti-Zionists hang their heads in shame for any reason whatsoever. As far as I am concerned, most of them could go and hang themselves, but shame? A sentiment alien to most of that crowd, in my experience.

More importantly, any anti-Zionist worth his excrement will immediately and proudly produce the stock answers about anti-Zionism not being antisemitism and about a distinction between a Jew and an Israeli.

The main problem I have with the article after reading it is that, for whatever reason, the author concentrates on proving that, after all, Israel is not so bad. While the point is by itself valid, the author may seem to have made peace with a perverted thesis, promoted quite a few years ago by Seumas Milne and his ilk. The thesis that it is perfectly logical and expected that European (and any other Diaspora) Jews should pay for the sins of their Israeli brethren.

Now, I know that the author doesn't mean it. But in no way does he draw the reader's attention to the abomination of linking Israel and Gaza (and no matter how beastly or not we behave there) to the monstrous slaughter of Jewish children - just for being Jewish. Of course, I am sure that the author him/herself would be quick to point out that therein lies the real - antisemitic - background of the thesis mentioned above.

As for the main point of the article - the shame of the anti-Zionists, here come a few examples that show how quick do they recover from the pictures of slaughter perpetrated by the people they hail.

To start with - a "milder" version, some character who carries a moniker "MoronWatch". After reading a few of his, quite pompous, missives, I am quite sure that the suffix "ing" is missing in that moniker, but to the matter at hand: Toulouse Shootings: a Win for Nazis and Zionists. No need to quote from the dreck, I hope. Surely, Zionists are wild with happiness at the sight of a Rabbi and three kids murdered. You bet.

A place that calls itself CounterPsyOps has a more specific pointer regarding the murderer:

The Pentagon and the CIA specialize in creating terrorists as part of a so-called covert and unconventional war doctrine dating back to the end of the Second World War...

What astonished me in that piece is that its author, the notorious Jew-biter Kurt Nimmo, forgot to mention both Jews and Mossad. Probably rushing to press or whatever.

Another Jew-biter, no less notorious in his inimitable way, Gilad Atzmon, didn't forget neither Jews nor Mossad:

However, I won’t rule out the possibility that Merah was actually trained by Israeli forces. Marah may have conducted a false flag operation. By way of deception is, after all, the Mossad’s motto.

Another hapless conspiracy theorist AANGIRFAN (whom I had a pleasure mentioning once or twice already) goes a bit further with his feverish imagination, producing an opus MERAH IS INNOCENT?, as usual using capital letters in his headline. Recommended reading, not because of any revelation but as a mirror of a conspinut's brain - what AANGIRFAN uses for his blog could be called brain, of course.

And, to round up the selection, here comes an American lady, one Deb Simon, owner of at least two beautiful dogs and a runner-up for Congress (apparently). She doesn't divulge her own opinion but freely copy/pastes other people's conspiracy theories. A repeat of the above mentioned, but it's worth noticing that this candidate for Congress has a blog liberally stuffed with all kinds of "anti-Zionist" propaganda from worst Jew-biting sources.

Update. But the cake is taken, no doubt, by this:

French teacher seeks 'minute's silence for killer'

French teacher was suspended Friday for allegedly urging her class to observe a minute's silence for serial killer Mohamed Merah, the day after he was shot dead by police.

Education Minister Luc Chatel had called for the teacher to be suspended after her class reported she called Merah a "victim" and said his links to Al-Qaeda were invented by the media and "Sarko", referring to President Nicolas Sarkozy.

So much for anti-Zionist shame...