Thursday, April 24, 2008

Denying the Nakba

I just received this email from a distinguished academic. He's involved in medical aid work in Afghanistan. In fact, he okays much of the donations from his Western government to clinics in Afghanistan. I shudder to think how he treats the Afghans.

Dear Iqbal,
There is too much Pallywood going on to believe even what you see there. My mother was in the West Bank and was treated to the same spectacles. They're good, but they do get caught, as with the recent "blackout". Check out:
http://www.seconddraft.org/movies.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallywood
I assume that you are an immigrant to Australia. Where from?
Yours, [insert redneck]

1 Comments:

At 3:04 AM, Blogger Damian said...

Surely an academic should know better than to rely on a fallacious argument - some reports have been exaggerated or "staged" so your report can't be trusted - to make a criticism.

Also, why assume that you are a migrant (you could have been born in Australia for all he knows) and what does it have to do with anything anyway?

I hope you replied, mate.

 

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