The Institute for Global Jewish Affairs did a study and found that Salon, Huffington Post and Daily Kos, large left wing blogs, were hotbeds of anti-Semitism! This belabored notion, that the left wing or the left wing blogosphere is anti-Semitic, of course, was immediately dismissed by Muzzlewatch, the anti-propaganda arm of Jewish Voice for Peace.
In contrast, however, it is also the case that left wing blogs like Daily Kos are being used by bloggers intent on plying Israeli propaganda in an apparent attempt to justify Israel’s occupation and colonial activity under the guise of being left wing writings.
In this example diary, which attempts to look reasonably left wing, the following themes, right out of Israeli hasbara (propaganda) play book, are evident:
Criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic
Criticism of Zionism is anti-Semitic
American left wing is anti-Semitic
Holocaust card
Goldstone report (Gaza atrocities) is biased against Israel
Terms relevant to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict like racism, occupation, colonialism, Apartheid, the basis of Israel criticism, are omitted at all costs. It is because we have freedom of speech in the blogosphere that such diaries are permitted and they should be. But observers also need to be cautious about accepting propaganda in the context of what otherwise looks like reasonable left wing discourse.
