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Date Posted: 22:10:00 01/24/03 Fri
Author: RG
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Baraka's Controversial Poem

The two 'controversial' stanzas in the Baraka poem are:

"Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion
And cracking they sides at the notion (sic)"

and also:

"Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
to stay home that day
Why did Sharon stay away?"

MY question I want to ask here is this:

WHERE IS the specific Anit-Semitic statement in Baraka's poem? I read the poem several times and I cannot find it.

1. Baraka wrote "4000 Israeli workers" were told to "stay home that day." He did NOT write

"4000 Jewish workers" were told "to stay home that day."

2. Since when did Israeli = Jew?

3. Suppose a Methodist Swedish man with no Jewish background, falls in love with a Jewish woman he meets in Stockholm. They get married and move to Israel. He then becomes an Israeli citizen, if that is allowed for non-Jews in Israel. He then is an Israeli, not a Jew, he is an Israeli citizen who is swedish and was a Methodist. If Israelis can be other than Jewish in Israel, then how is Baraka's poem anti-Semitic?

4. Suppose Baraka had written the Mafia was in on the plot to kill JFK. Most members of the Mafia have been Italian and Catholic. Would that make Baraka's poem anti-Catholic?

Does anyone recall Louis Farrakhan's remark years ago that the Jewish religion was a "gutter religion"? That WAS an anti-Semitic remark. I can recognize an anti-Semitic remark or racist remark when I see it or hear it; anyone capable of critical thinking can.

And this New Jersey governor wants Baraka to step down? This whole skinning of Baraka strikes me as being entirely politically motivated. To speak critically of Israel is not to be anti-Semitic.

RG

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Re: Baraka's Controversial Poem -- Ruf, 13:59:12 09/16/03 Tue