Dean Esmay's overboarding trips
Fellow blogger Dean Esmay may have some merits, but unfortunately, he's been writing too much of late that outweighs whatever credit I can give him. I was very appalled when I found out that he made sloppy, stupid attacks on Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer, for example. Now, I have to find out that he even goes so far as to attack Meir Kahane by drawing a form of moral eqivalence between him and Muslim terrorists.
First of all, as far as I know, whatever his bunch, the Jewish Defense League, if I'm correct, did do, was acts of vandalism, and in one case, they put a smoke bomb in a NY office that killed someone by smoke, but the killing appears to have been unintentional. They also killed an Arab in Jerusalem in revenge after Kahane was murdered by an Arab Muslim in New York who just happened to be a follower of the same blind sheik who's now in prison in New York on account of the first WTC bombing in 1993. That aside, I can't say that the JDL ran around committing crimes like gang-rape either. Nor did they attack minority groups. Rather, they tried to defend Jews. So why then, does Esmay feel the need to describe Kahane as a "terrorist"? That's practically what enemies of Israel do as a way of expressing their hostility. You can find quite a lot of that kind of BS amongst Britain's bigoted elites.
Let me note that personally, I don't think much of the JDL by today's standards, and the only thing I do think they worked well in was when William Messner-Loebs wrote an amusing joke in The Flash in 1989, when Wally West found out that his mother mistook the Blue Beetle and Booster Gold for JDL representatives instead of the Justice League International (he exclaims "the Jewish Defense League, in costume?!?"). But while there may be an argument to be had on whether the JDL were a bunch of bozo vandals, they were definitely NOT a terrorist group. The whole description can sometimes go too far.
Meryl Yourish has a whole post about this that gives some pretty good points.
For his attacks on Robert Spencer, Kahane, and even Michelle Malkin, I can safely say that Dean Esmay won't be topping my list of favorites.
First of all, as far as I know, whatever his bunch, the Jewish Defense League, if I'm correct, did do, was acts of vandalism, and in one case, they put a smoke bomb in a NY office that killed someone by smoke, but the killing appears to have been unintentional. They also killed an Arab in Jerusalem in revenge after Kahane was murdered by an Arab Muslim in New York who just happened to be a follower of the same blind sheik who's now in prison in New York on account of the first WTC bombing in 1993. That aside, I can't say that the JDL ran around committing crimes like gang-rape either. Nor did they attack minority groups. Rather, they tried to defend Jews. So why then, does Esmay feel the need to describe Kahane as a "terrorist"? That's practically what enemies of Israel do as a way of expressing their hostility. You can find quite a lot of that kind of BS amongst Britain's bigoted elites.
Let me note that personally, I don't think much of the JDL by today's standards, and the only thing I do think they worked well in was when William Messner-Loebs wrote an amusing joke in The Flash in 1989, when Wally West found out that his mother mistook the Blue Beetle and Booster Gold for JDL representatives instead of the Justice League International (he exclaims "the Jewish Defense League, in costume?!?"). But while there may be an argument to be had on whether the JDL were a bunch of bozo vandals, they were definitely NOT a terrorist group. The whole description can sometimes go too far.
Meryl Yourish has a whole post about this that gives some pretty good points.
For his attacks on Robert Spencer, Kahane, and even Michelle Malkin, I can safely say that Dean Esmay won't be topping my list of favorites.
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