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Kalle Lasn here with a story about how the
New York Times refused to give Adbusters [which Lasn edits] the right of reply. Here is the chronology of what happened:
1. October 3 letter from
Adbusters Kalle Lasn to the editor of the
New York Times:
In the wake of the #OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement, the
New York Times has twice taken a swipe at
Adbusters magazine, originators of the event. David Brooks led the charge in his October 10 column, The Milquetoast Radicals, falsely accusing us of being anti-Jewish.
In an earlier column, Mr. Brooks said: "Jews are a famously accomplished group. They make up about 0.2 percent of the world population, but 54 percent of the world chess champions, 27 percent of the Nobel physics laureates ... 37 percent of Academy Award-winning directors ... 51 percent of Pulitzer Prize winners for nonfiction" and so on. And yet, in his October 10 column he found something insidious about an article Adbusters ran seven years ago pointing out that 50 percent of the prominent neocons surrounding the Bush administration were Jewish. Why the double standard, Mr. Brooks? How is this different?
Then on October 17, Joseph Berger's Cries of Anti-Semitism, but Not at Zuccotti Park, quoted an article in a conservative magazine founded by the American Jewish Committee which alleged that "the main organizer behind the movement -
Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn - has a history of anti-Jewish writing." Mr. Berger, why are you uncritically passing on other people's allegations? Why didn't you do your own research and come up with your own conclusions?
Comment: "Your attempt to enter the Gaza Strip by sea is a violation of international law."
Apartheid is Illegal and a violation of International Law & human rights.