Tariq Ramadan hat ein Problem

By Michael Kreutz · February 8, 2008

Tariq Ramadan hat ein Problem. Und das heisst Israel. Auf Italiens grösster Buchmesse, die im Mai in Turin stattfinden wird, soll der jüdische Staat zum 60. Jahrestag seiner Gründung mit besonderen Ehren bedacht werden, weswegen Tariq Ramadan nun zum Boykott aufruft. Warum dies bei Linken für wenig Empörung sorgen wird, erklärt James Wilson im “City Journal”:

After the Marxist claims about the proletariat proved false and capitalism was vindicated as the best way to achieve economic affluence, leftists had to stop pretending that they could accomplish much with state-owned factories and national economic plans. As a result, the oppressed replaced the proletariat as the Left’s object of affection. The enemy became, not capitalists, but successful nations.

That shift in focus has received encouragement from certain American academics, such as Noam Chomsky, and from the European press, including the BBC, the Guardian, the Evening Standard, and Le Monde. All tend to denounce Israel in the most unrestrained terms. When Israeli ground forces sought to root out terrorists hiding in a Jenin refugee camp, they lost 23 soldiers and killed 52 Palestinians. Among other press critics, the British writer A. N. Wilson, uninterested in the facts, called the episode a “massacre” and a “genocide.” The Left will always have its enemies; Israel has merely replaced John D. Rockefeller at the top of the list.

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