Georgia Straight | 08Jul2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.straight.com/article-332602/vancouver/oxymoronic-arguments-elicit-pity-and-wonder
Oxymoronic arguments elicit pity
and wonder
Oxymorons often challenge our sense of logic. A case in point: Canada’s
former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy’s appeal for the
“humanitarian bombing” of Serbia in 1999. Or more recently, the
instances of so-called honour killings, in which older males murder
recalcitrant younger female relatives to salvage a family’s allegedly
ruined reputation.
Dr. Grigori Khaskin’s letter introduces us to yet another oxymoron, no
less daunting in terms of the strain it imposes on logic and common
sense: namely, the “Jewish anti-Semite”.
Khaskin paints this kind of Jew in unabashedly lurid colours -- he
projects the image of a latter-day, wannabe Nazi collaborator zealously
bent on assisting assorted villains in the extermination of his Jewish
brethren.
The portrayal of Jews dissenting from the received Zionist version of
Middle East politics is so grossly over the top that I feel moved to
wonder if, in fact, the only so-called Jewish anti-Semite here is
Khaskin himself.
Orest Slepokura, Strathmore, Alberta