Juan Cole: Why don't the media talk about "Zionofascism," he asks
"No one in the U.S. media ever talks about Zionofascism, and the campus groups who yoke the word 'fascism' to other religions and peoples are most often trying to divert attention from their own authoritarianism and approval of brutality," writes Juan Cole.
Cole writes at the outset of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a David Horowitz-led effort to challenge "what students are taught about the so-called War on Terror both in the classroom and on the quad."
The term "Zionofascism" caught the eye of Noah Pollak, an editor at the Israeli policy journal Azure. After trolling around the Internet in search of the origins of the term, Pollak writes: "Cole wonders why the U.S. media never talk about Zionofascism. The answer is that Zionofascism is a term invented by anti-Semites, for anti-Semites, that so far has seen regular use only by anti-Semites. Cole, who uses words and makes distinctions for a living, presumably knows this." Pollak adds, "Why does he give a nod to anti-Semites?"
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Cole writes at the outset of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a David Horowitz-led effort to challenge "what students are taught about the so-called War on Terror both in the classroom and on the quad."
The term "Zionofascism" caught the eye of Noah Pollak, an editor at the Israeli policy journal Azure. After trolling around the Internet in search of the origins of the term, Pollak writes: "Cole wonders why the U.S. media never talk about Zionofascism. The answer is that Zionofascism is a term invented by anti-Semites, for anti-Semites, that so far has seen regular use only by anti-Semites. Cole, who uses words and makes distinctions for a living, presumably knows this." Pollak adds, "Why does he give a nod to anti-Semites?"