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Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) a Christian response? | eChurch Christian Blog — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:32:39 +0000

[...] Shock has blogged on Ben White and has this to say:- …..I’ve also blogged about Ben White, a British journalist who rose to fame recently whilst defaming Israel and praising Christian [...]

By: Seismic Shock: one year on « Seismic Shock

Seismic Shock: one year on « Seismic Shock — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:18:49 +0000

[...] also blogged about Ben White, a British journalist who rose to fame recently whilst defaming Israel and praising Christian [...]

By: Seismic

Seismic — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:33:14 +0000

Thanks to above commenters! It will be interesting to see if Ben White sees this piece too as a work of Zionist propaganda.

By: 1peter

1peter — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:53:11 +0000

Waiting with bated breath what will be written about the “outrage” of UNRWA textbooks maybe mentioning the holocaust, though who knows, he may just decide that it isn’t important enough to write about.

By: yeze

yeze — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:37:18 +0000

Thanks, my friend was toally convinced by this post, he was not convinced previously that Ben White was as bad as I was telling him he was.

By: yeze

yeze — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:28:13 +0000

One correction a reader has kindly alerted me too. Those planning antisemitic attacks against synagogues who now have prison sentences were based in California, whereas White was commenting on a case of planned antisemitic synagogue attacks in New York – I don’t know how their case has gone so far.

By: Dooley

Dooley — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:22:06 +0000

Excellent post Seismic.

By: All About Zion? « Seismic Shock

All About Zion? « Seismic Shock — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:09:15 +0000

[...] About Zion? Filed under: theology — seismicshock @ 11:08 am I have a guest post up at CIFWatch, in which I ask questions about Ben White’s attitudes towards Jews, his theologically-based [...]

By: Seismic

Seismic — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:07:05 +0000

Thanks guys :)

Micha, I don’t know what first ‘attracted’ Ben White to Israel, but he spent a long time writing about Israel when living in Brazil. A long-distance expert in ‘Israeli apartheid’, White somehow didn’t manage to write so much about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_apartheid_in_Brazil

By: Micha

Micha — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:58:46 +0000

PS. An excellent article.

What exactly are Ben White’s his credentials? Isn’t he a literature major and a self-declared specialist on Palestine having spent a summer or two volunteering in the Territories? Why all this animosity towards Israel?

By: Micha

Micha — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:53:59 +0000

Ben White sees Palestinians as being whiter than he is, and Jews as being blacker than black.

By: modernityblog

modernityblog — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:37:43 +0000

Great post.

By: Louise

Louise — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:22:13 +0000

Thank you Seismic.

I have long admired your work and it is a great pleasure to have you as one of our first Guest Posters.

By: Gil

Gil — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:47:13 +0000

Why doesn’t Ben White tell us how he sees the Holocaust.

It’s easy to make up stories about evil Jews and how they use their suffering as “an axcuse to exploit and harm others.” This mode of thinking is intrinsically antisemitic and it’s been around for centuries.

However, by not saying what he thinks the Holocaust was all about he projects his own fears and hatred on the survivors of the Shoah and their children.